The impetus for the project is simple: Where is literature set and why? For over a hundred years "literary criticism has been struggling with the question of how best to depict literary spaces on maps in an adequate and objectively accurate manner" Combining the fields of literary geography and cartography researchers at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation in Zurich have been at work since 2006 compiling new interactive tools to assist researchers and others with an interest in literature and place. Subjects like "fictionalization processes over time (of a region, a city); interactions between fiction and reality; and last but not least coherences between natural...
