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This book addresses the many arenas in which a variety of ´geographies´ are being specified and mapped. It provides examples of new theories now being developed as well as the practical mapping applications that are used to represent these geographies.

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This book is the outcome of the work of contributors who participated in the wo- shop "Mapping Different Geographies (MDG)" in February 2010, held in Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria. This meeting brought together cartographers, artists and geoscientists who research and practice in applications that focus on enhancing o- to-one communication or develop and evaluate methodologies that provide inno- tive methods for sharing information. The main intention of the workshop was to investigate how ´different´ geographies are being mapped and the possibilities for developing new theories and techniques for information design and transfer based on place or location. So as to communicate these concepts it was important to appreciate the many contrasting meanings of ´mapping´ that were held by workshop participants. Also, the many (and varied) viewpoints of what different geographies are, were ela- rated upon and discussed. Therefore, as the focus on space and time was embedded within everyone´s felds of investigation, this was addressed during the workshop. This resulted in very engaging discourse, which, in some cases, exposed the restrictions that certain approaches need to consider. For participants, this proved to be most useful, as this allowed them to appreciate the limits and restrictions of their own approach to understanding and representing different geographies. As well, the workshop also was most helpful as a vehicle for demonstrating the common ground of interest held by the very diverse areas of endeavour that the workshop participants work within.

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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 uvre.- Ghosts of the Past: Mapping the Colonial in Eleanor Dark´s Fiction.

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