Use GPS To Increase Your Word Power
“Neogeography”
Joab Jackson
for National Geographic News
April 25, 2006
Need to know where to find a mountaintop castle in Japan? How about the best fried cheese sticks along U.S. Route 66?
Now, thanks to a unique mashup of cartography and blogs, you can find what you need to know just by looking at a map….. Full National Geographic News source document here:
Since the days of my youth I have always enjoyed a very ling-running feature of The Reader’s Digest, titled
“It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.” I don’t really have a huge vocabulary and am far from a linguist but I have learned a lot over the years by taking the little “multiple guess” quiz on new or unfamiliar words.
Seems as if lately I’ve been writing my own version here … you may recall a few jabs and some agreement on Professor Dobson’s “Geoslavery“, a little about multilateration and even car dealer floor plan financing.
But today’s new word is even more kewl … Neogeography, a term coined mainly to indicate the art and science of blogs and maps.
I like it. I wrote about a new practioner just a day or so ago and you’ll see more in the near-term future, I guarantee. There are so many things from birds to Britney sightings that just work so much better with a map than with words or pictures only. Even better with words and pictures keyed to a map. I like it.