Neogeographers are the wave of the future… Or are they the bane and destruction of all that is spatial and cartographic? From a geography/GIS background, what books or resources do you think would give neogeographers an understanding to create meaningful cartographic output?

The idea of this post is to illicit suggestions from the geography/GIS community and to generate a running list of must read books and resources for neogeographers and the just plain curious.

In light of the recent blog article with Steve Chilton, Chairman of the Society of Cartographers, neogeography and neogeographers pose a difficult problems regarding quality and accuracy of cartographic output. It has been suggested that we, as a geographic community, should be responsible to assist and educate neogeographers on good solid cartographic and spatial concepts, eventually leading to better cartographic and thematic output (paraphrased with interpretation from interview).

I figured this would be as good a place as any to start a discussion on this. What I would like to hear is peoples suggestions for learning GIS, cartography(digital), spatial databases, etc., providing it is aimed at the neogeographer or untrained geographer in particular. I feel that as geographers and GIS practitioners we would have a much better suggestions as a group, rather than a single person coming up with a list. I don’t think this should be just books, but should include anything that is a great learning resource (IE: white papers, videos, websites, interviews, whatever). Also, if you want to second a suggestion just say so. I think this could be really interesting to see what can be compiled from this loose survey. So leave your recommendation in the comments and anything else you deem supports that recommendation.

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