Week Three Lab Assignment

View Los Angeles Art Museums and Bus Stops near UCLA in a larger map

      The reason I this map is very simple. Being an art major, I have to and want to go visit art galleries on a frequent basis. However, not having a car on campus means that I need to take the bus and find certain bus stops in order to go to the museums. This was my motivation in creating this map of bus stops near UCLA and a couple of art museums in Los Angeles. 
      Neo-geography is a new and exciting field that gives people the opportunity to create and share their own unique maps with the world. It allows people to create highly-specialized maps that usually would not exist on their own, and many people can take advantage of the new and useful information these maps give. For example, if you really like Mexican food and live in the Los Angeles area, somebody has probably created a map that shows where all the good Mexican restaurants are in the LA area. This kind of map would be very useful to a select number of individuals. The introduction of neo-geography has vastly increased the amount of maps with specialized topics.
      Although the introduction of neo-geography has brought about maps that can be very useful at times, they are, however, not without their flaws. One of the major problems with neo-geography is credibility. There is no guarantee that  a map will be geographically accurate in terms of locations or directions, or even if the creator of the map had good intentions when making it, and was just playing some kind of joke. Even if the creator of a map did have good intentions when creating it, the map may still have inaccuracies. Maps could be mislabeled, not to scale, or may contain the creators preferences, for example, somebody else's idea of a good restaurant may be different from your idea of a good restaurant. Even though neo-geography maps can be very helpful at times, they cannot be trusted completely due to the lack of a credible source.