Best Surfing Beaches for UCLA Students
This map shows the best surf locations within driving distance of the UCLA campus. The different sports are illustrated with place marks on the map, each different color place-mark representing the different quality of the waves. The light blue color represents quite poor conditions on average, the green represents average conditions and the dark blue represents very good condition. The lines show the distances from the UCLA campus and each trip line has a link to the traffic center to get a more accurate picture of travel time. The nearest beach parking lots for all of the beaches are represented by the red blocks on the map, and the UCLA campus is illustrated by a blue block.
One of the main issues with Neogeography is that is relies on the work of others in inception. For example I used google maps for this parituclar map, which I created, this seems fine, however it gives Google a lot of control as they are partically controlling how my map will look. Other maps sites apart from Google Maps has been key in the rise of neogeography and these maps include Google Earth, Bing Maps and MapQuest; and all of these sites hold that same power.
Another main issue with Neogeopgrahy is that unlike old style map making which occured in the near past, the maps are much more informal and collequial. When maps used to be made they would be sanctioned by governments or large companies and therefore accuracy was key, however with neogeographical maps, the accuracy is no longer the most important factor, but more the content on top of the map itself. For example my map above illustrates the different surf locations near to UCLA, however the actually accuracy of the map is not important to the user, but more so the links, pictures and videos that I have included. In fact the map only really needed to be vaguely accurate to give an approximate distance in the viewers mind. This informality of maps that neogeography is starting could lead to less acuracy in the future for maps, and that is something that should be watched carefully.
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