NeoGeography and the nature of geographic expertise

Neogeography and volunteered geographic information : a conversation with Michael Goodchild and Andrew

Goodchild: Neogeography implies a reinventing of geography, in which the traditional roles of expert producer of geographic information and amateur user have broken down, with the amateur becoming both a producer and user—or what some have termed a prosumer. Implicit is a defi nition of geography as a discipline devoted to the production of geographic information; most contemporary geographers ...

Assertion and Authority: the Science of User- Generated Geographic Content

Neogeography has been defined as a blurring of the distinctions between producer, communicator, and consumer of geographic information. The relationship between professional and amateur varies across disciplines. The subject matter of geography is familiar to everyone, and the acquisition and compilation of geographic data has become vastly easier as technology has advanced. The authority of tr...

Citizen Science in the Age of Neogeography: Utilizing Volunteered Geographic Information for Environmental Monitoring

From GIS to neogeography: ontological implications and theories of truth

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A philosophical Approach to the Allocation or Aggregation of Geography

Introduction Geography first started with simple writing. But today, this science has gained a lot of potentials and with its technical tools which has at hand, has new specialized trends and is training new experts and specialists. Hence, in the present age, especially in Iran, geography is referred to as (interdisciplinary science), because it both studies natural sciences and human sciences...