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Neogeography is interesting because with the technology available now, anyone can make a pretty interesting map. This is good for a number of reasons. One is that some information may not be viewed as important enough to map by organizations who do cartography for a profession. For example, a company may not want to spend the time mapping the locations of bakeries in Berkeley, but the people of Berkeley may really appreciate this map. Neogeography provides people with the tools and the internet provides people with information and used together they can create some very useful maps.

There is a definite downside to Neogeography in the fact that there are no quality standards for maps. One of the nice things about the maps provided by the government is that you know they are reliable and have been designed thoroughly, but with Neogeography you never know how reliable the maps are. The maps may also be too influenced by people's personal preferences, and may also be flat wrong. However, I don't think that these downsides are enough to not do Neogeography, but rather points that should be taken into consideration going forward in Neogeography.