Conceptual and Theoretical Principles of MDG -- Mapping Other (Geographical) Realities -- Mapping Practices for Different Geographies -- Spatial Metaphors for Mapping Informal Geographies -- Emotional Response to Space as an Additional Concept of Supporting Wayfinding in Ubiquitous Cartography -- An Artistic Perspective for Affective Cartography -- Mapping the Imagined -- Structural and Methodological Issues of MDG -- “Now and Then, Here and There … on Business”: Mapping Social/Trade Networks on First Global Age -- Evolution of Digital Map Libraries towards Virtual Map Rooms: New Challenges for Historical Research -- Information Architecture of the “Cultural History Information System of the Western Himalaya” -- User-Centred Design of a Web-Based Cartographic Information System for Cultural History -- GIS for Numismatics – Methods of Analyses in the Interpretation of Coin Finds -- Use Cases and Examples of MDG -- Le vie dello Swat1 -- DiFaB – A Databased Visual Archive of Byzantium and the Challenges of Indexing Historical Material Culture -- Mapping Byzantium – The Project “Macedonia, Northern Part” in the Series Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences -- The Mastery of Narratively Creating Mental Maps: Literary Cartography in Karl May’s Œuvre -- Ghosts of the Past: Mapping the Colonial in Eleanor Dark’s Fiction.

To ‘everyday consumers’ of information who use contemporary communication devices the ‘not-real’ is experienced almost every time they turn on a television, watch a movie or access some information via the Web. They are instantly taken to another world, and they can explore another reality. Professional designers and cartographers use the not-real (representations that range from paper maps of fantasy to computer-generated virtual reality) to deliver information about real, imaginary or non-human / non-physical geographies. In many cases the map metaphor is employed to provide representations of imaginary or non-human / non-physical geographies and users can use existing map reading skills to interpret these representations of ‘different’ geographies. This book addresses the many areas where different geographies are being specified and then represented using the map metaphor. It provides examples of new theories being developed and practical mapping applications that are used to inform about or analyse the elements of these geographies.