The advent of the Internet followed by the arrival of Web 2.0 have no doubt changed the way geographic information is obtained and shared, a fact that is well described by this article by Haklay et. Al. Without saying the age for paper maps is behind us, the internet has propelled us into an era where internet and geography are combined like never before.
Although the Internet has allowed many to navigate on a digital Earth for the first time, several issues have appeared from the combination of the internet and the discipline of geography. The field has been democratized by the increased online accessibility to geographic tools and mashups, which increases the visibility of geography but also could be seen as being reductionist, geography essentially being non-experts having fun by geotagging pictures. Speaking of geotagging, the social media boom has lead to people going en masse to previously unvisited areas, a phenomenon that has led to an explosion of visitors to the Horseshoe Bend in Arizona for example, something that has drastically affected the local environment.