Lab 3
View Favorite Eats and Drinks in Long Beach in a larger map

     The map is above represents my favorite places to eat food and grab drinks in Long Beach, California. The blue points on the map represent sushi places in the area. The burger icons represent areas eateries that are either small sandwich shops or burger companies. Pink pinpoints on the map represents places that are International foods, including french food cafe Le Creperie, Mediterranean food from Open Sesame, and Mexican food from Super Mex. The coffee icons represent cool coffee places in the fourth street area of Long Beach that have a good atmosphere and good coffee and pastries. There was a video included in Veinto Y Agua of a band performing at the coffee shop. Snack places are indicated with a yellow pin point. And the martini glass symbol represents bars in the Long Beach Area.
       My map selectively focuses on the fourth street, second street, and and Studebaker areas of Long Beach. The issues of my map is that parts of the eateries are not visible. This means that it is likely for parts of the eateries and bars that I want to showcase will be missed by my audience. Furthermore, I entitled my map "Best Eats and Drinks in Long Beach". However, this is very subjective. This represents one large pitfall of Neogeography: inherent bias and the potential of misinterpreted and false data. Neogeography most basically means "new geography", in which people use shared information and data to create maps. The use of the Internet and "cloud data", which is the ability to share and back up data through multiple devices, are the main drivers of neogeography. Though there are many issues, such as incorrect data, bias ,and the inability to reach a particular audience; neogeography represents a lot of potential. The growth of the internet allows users to reach a wider group of people more easily, and neogeography has embodies the potential for information to be distributed more easily and more thoroughly.