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Local chronicles meticulously document regional history, but their potential for disseminating and preserving local cultural heritage has not been fully exploited. Narrative maps offer new inspiration for expressing local chronicles. Nonetheless, existing studies often lack a structured methodology for translating textual narratives into effective map designs. This study proposes a systematic workflow to transform local chronicles into narrative maps, guiding the visual encoding of narrative content through elaborate map layouts, distinctive and meaningful colors, figurative hand-painted symbols, and scene symbols. The application and effectiveness of this method are demonstrated through a detailed case study mapping the Shaolin martial arts culture. The resulting map illustrates how structured design can unlock the cultural value of local chronicles, enhance public engagement, and assist in heritage preservation. The proposed method provides a replicable reference for designing narrative maps from other textual materials.

Heritage tourism has been booming all around the world during the recent past. However, current heritage tourism maps have been locked into the traditional cartographic paradigms in standard formats and are thus incapable of exhibiting the local cultures and the stories behind them. To address this issue, this paper introduces the cultural schema theory into narrative cartographic design and proposes a novel theoretical framework for making heritage tourism maps. We use a typical 'Suzhou Classical Gardens' Narrative Map to demonstrate the usefulness and practicability of the proposed theoretical framework. We finally summarize five cartographic design guidelines for making heritage tourism maps. This study is believed to shed fresh light on cartographic design research.

Today, the marriage between cartographic language and narrative strategies has reshaped maps with the generative capability to represent the intangible historical characters and events involved in social memories following a narrative manner. Despite these advances, rather few efforts have been spared to unveil the potential of tourism maps in a narrative form. This paper seeks to rectify the gaps in this line of research by unfolding the underlying theories and cartographic design guidelines for making narrative tourism maps. In particular, a narrative cartographic design approach is demonstrated and evidenced to be practical using the case of 'Red Boat Spirit Map', a tourism map designed for Jiaxing City, one of the most well-known destinations of China's red tourism. It is believed that the theoretical instrument and cartographic design guidelines presented in our paper are particularly relevant and can be easily adapted to more general research of narrative maps.

Tourist maps provide tourists with destination information that reflects their unique characteristics and cultural connotations and play an important role in attracting tourists and serving marketing purposes. However, existing designs of tourist maps often ignore the importance of cultural resource selection and the relationship between maps and structural linguistics, thereby affecting the narrative function and representativeness of tourist maps. This study utilizes the local chronicle as a data source and proposes a novel visual narrative framework (VNF) for tourist maps. The VNF combines Todorov’s narrative hierarchy and Roth’s visual storytelling tropes to establish a mapping between map elements and narrative elements. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the VNF, the Songshan Scenic Area was selected as a case study. By applying the VNF, highly characteristic and meaningful colors, figurative hand-painted symbols, and scene symbols are selected and integrated into the map design to enhance the artistic value and narrative of the map. This framework reveals the potential cultural value of local chronicles and can serve as a reference for other historical tourist cities, contributing to the preservation of local cultural heritage.

Narrative mapping, an advanced geographic information visualization technology, presents spatial information episodically, enhancing readers’ spatial understanding and event cognition. However, during 3D scene construction, viewpoint selection is heavily reliant on the cartographer’s subjective interpretation of the event. Even with fixed-angle settings, the task of ensuring that selected viewpoints align with the narrative theme remains challenging. To address this, an automated viewpoint selection method constrained by narrative relevance and visual information is proposed. Narrative relevance is determined by calculating spatial distances between each element and the thematic element within the scene. Visual information is quantified by assessing the visual salience of elements as the ratio of their projected area on the view window to their total area. Pearson’s correlation coefficient is used to evaluate the relationship between visual salience and narrative relevance, serving as a constraint to construct a viewpoint fitness function that integrates the visual salience of the convex polyhedron enclosing the scene. The chaotic particle swarm optimization (CPSO) algorithm is utilized to locate the viewpoint position while maximizing the fitness function, identifying a viewpoint meeting narrative and visual salience requirements. Experimental results indicate that, compared to the maximum projected area method and fixed-value method, a higher viewpoint fitness is achieved by this approach. The narrative views generated by this method were positively recognized by approximately two-thirds of invited professionals. This process aligns effectively with narrative visualization needs, enhances 3D narrative map creation efficiency, and offers a robust strategy for viewpoint selection in 3D scene-based narrative mapping.

Narratives and places are deeply connected. Places often contribute to the shaping of a story, just as stories contribute to the production of spatial identities. Mapping narratives can thus have a double goal: to explore the geographic structure of a story, and to better understand the impact of stories on the production of places. While it may be easy to locate narratives as points on a map, this type of representation is rarely relevant in capturing and characterising the complex spatio-temporal dimensions of the narratives. In this paper, we present a cyber-cartographic application designed to address this issue and provide solutions to help properly map some of the many dimensions of narratives, including the places of the narration (geography), the connection between these places (geometry), as well as the temporal dimension inherent to storytelling. This application, originally developed to map contemporary Canadian cinematographic narratives (see examples here: http://scaquard.classone-tech.com/ ), opens new perspectives and raises a range of issues to mapping a multitude of stories, including fictional work, vernacular knowledge, personal experience and collective memories.

Lokale Bildungslandschaften sind in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren ein viel zitiertes Konzept. In diesem Beitrag behandeln wir die sozialräumliche Bildungslandschaft in Form eines Campus, der die Akteur*innen in Bildung und Stadtplanung an ein spezifisches Leitbild – die Konzentration auf die physische Form und programmatisches Handeln – bindet. Ein Bildungsraum als Campus beinhaltet somit konstitutive Dimensionen von Bildungspraktiken und räumlicher Refiguration von Bildungsbedingungen, die es noch zu entdecken und zu untersuchen gilt. Wir fokussieren die Perspektive von Kindern und Jugendlichen als Hauptzielgruppe dieses Leitbildes sowie die Perspektive der professionellen Akteur*innen. Wir geben daher einen kurzen Überblick über die Charakteristika sozialräumlicher Bildungslandschaften. Zunächst zeichnen wir die planerischen und pädagogischen Prozesse nach, die sich in Bildungsräumen eines Campus in ausgewählten deutschen Kommunen abspielen und vergleichen sie systematisch. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf den Aneignungen und Atmosphären von Zugängen und Übergängen sowie auf Nutzungs- und Raumwahrnehmungsmustern. Nach der Analyse der laufenden Entwicklungsprozesse von sozialräumlichen Bildungslandschaften als Campus nehmen wir eine international vergleichende Perspektive ein, um diese zu erforschen.

Drawing on data generated by life history interviews and fieldwork observations we illuminate the ways in which a young elite athlete named David (a pseudonym) gave meaning to his experiences of cancer that eventually led to his death. Central to this process were the ways in which David utilized both social comparisons and a narrative map provided by the published autobiography of Lance Armstrong (2000). Our analysis reveals the selective manner in which social comparison processes operated around the following key dimensions: mental attitude to treatment; the sporting body; the ageing body; and physical appearance. The manner in which different comparison targets were chosen, the ways in which these were framed by Armstrong's autobiography, and the work that the restitution narrative as an actor did in this process are also examined. Some reflections are offered regarding the experiential consequences of the social comparison processes utilized by David when these are shaped by specific forms of embodiment and selective narrative maps of cancer survival.

Although story maps have gained popularity for storytelling related to spatial information, existing story maps authoring tools often fall short in delivering diverse narrative forms and struggle to accurately render polar regions due to the limitations of tile-based mapping. In this work, we introduce a graphic-based method to address these challenges, developing a framework specifically designed for creating story maps for polar regions. Our key contribution lies in offering heuristic strategies for story map design, emphasizing their role in effectively visualizing and disseminating polar culture. This paper outlines essential design tasks for story map creation and introduces three pivotal narrative strategies: integration of map and other visual elements, attention cue, and cartographic interaction. Additionally, we emphasize the significance of storyboard design, focusing on aspects such as logical sequencing, temporal order, map scale, and interactive design. To validate the effectiveness of our story map design framework, we develop several story map cases centered around the exploration history of Antarctica. These examples highlight the diversity and interactivity in the story maps produced through our methodology. Finally, we explore the challenges and limitations encountered in the process of creating story maps, and from these observations, we identify prospective areas for further research.

Crime fiction frequently takes the real and imaginary geography of islands as its setting and subject. Through a reading of selected novels by Anne Zouroudi, Jeffrey Siger, and Paul Johnston, this article looks at ways in which ideas about 'islandness' operate in contemporary English-language crime fiction set in the Aegean Sea. Specifically, it uses geocriticism and spatial literary studies to explore the ways non-textual paratext–in particular covers and maps–work alongside a text, or narrative, to capitalize on the lure of islands.