Contributions from Informal Geography to Close the Gap in Geographic Information Communication in a Digital World

Abstract

Contemporary challenges and problems of society demand decision support systems that use geographic information. Even though geography since its origins has been a science with a strong transversal character, society has now made it become the focus of its agenda. Novel and other already established actors are involved in this rediscovery and popularization of geography. Both groups are promoting known and unknown geographical tasks thanks to technology, which is revealing new landscapes of our old territories and showing us the agency capacity of Geography Science. In this chapter, the authors review the offers and demands of communication on geographic information from the informal geography point of view and discuss the most outstanding current and future factors. In a digital world and in a networked society, the authors extract some hypotheses about the future of geographic information communication based on evidence from scientific literature, case studies, as well as their own professional experience.