Geotagging
The proliferation of GPS and mapping applications has allowed a broad range of landmarks, routes, and zones to be marked on maps. In addition to identifying destinations and aiding wayfinding, geotagging can be used to coordinate the provision of civic services. Enabled by online applications and locative technologies like GPS, geotagging is used in systems of network-landscape interaction with methods like crowdsourcing and emergent urbanism to reframe spatial information. Coordinating people to geotag their environments—or finding ways to geotag information without people realizing they’re doing it—creates a wealth of information that can be used to inform urban landscape design.