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Home (www) WUN-NeoGeography-2008-Haklay.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Les nouveaux utilisateurs des technologies géospatiales - Articles. Platial News and Neogeography: What is neogeography anyway? We offered up an initial answer to this question on our blog - placekraft. We'd like to take the opportunity to post here at Platial to refine the definition and open up the discussion to a broader audience. Neogeography, in its most basic sense means - new geography. We would offer that the prefix "neo" implies more than just new in its usage. Neo also has a connotative meaning, something akin to "in the manner of.

" Well, "in the manner of what? " Neogeography, as we see it, is a diverse set of practices that operate outside, or alongside, or in the manner of, the practices of professional geographers. "We ended up with a kitchen drawer stuffed full of these notes. We started asking my friend Jake about the technology side of building something to address this, and discovered he'd been working on, and thinking through some of the same issues. So here we are, launching a service that we hope can do some of these things (and maybe a whole lot more) for people. "