The Witcher world map. People need maps of imaginary places

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A regular map represents what is already there; a fictional map is often primary -to create the map means to create the world of the map (Ekman, 2013).The maps from fictional literature-based worlds have been a long-standing subject of research (Sharp, 1904; Post, 1979).Among many types of fictional maps, the worlds described in literature consist of a major theme (Engberg-Pedersen, 2017).The literary cartography is continuously challenging the problem of adequately mapping a world that has been imagined and, often only partially, described (Piatti and Hurni, 2013).Creating a map requires a thorough understanding of the imaginary space and extensive knowledge of the fictional world which does not necessarily go along with cartographic skills.This results in the amateur fictional cartography and a vast majority of cartographically unprofessional source materials about the location of objects existing in books and/or movies (Richterich, 2013).

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