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Poems on the Subway

Queensbound is a collaborative audio project which features poetry by local writers from across the borough of Queens in New York City. At t...

Sonnets on the Streets of Seattle

Seattle is a city 'full of cannabis craving lovers ... and power hungry sharks'. It is also a city full of poets and bards. Some of ...

Mapping the Fictional San Francisco

In 'Around the World in Eighty Days' Jules Verne described San Francisco as a city of "verdant squares". You can discover ...

All the World's a Stage

I'm not sure that Shakespeare can be bounded in a nutshell but Expedia's Global Shakespeare Explorer has made a good attempt at it. ...

Winnie the Pooh on Google Maps

Hundred Acre Wood, the home of Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin, Tigger and Eeyore is now on Google Maps. The map of Hundred Acre Wood eve...

The Mapping of the Ring

One of the big trends in interactive maps over the last twelve months has been the growing use of story maps. This year digital maps have be...

Maps in Literary Research

"All the world's a Google Map and all the men and women mere data-points upon it". - Billy Shakespeare The TransVis Othello Ti...

A Gorgeous Novel Map

A God in Every Stone is a novel by Kamila Shamsie. To accompany the publication of the novel Kamila has released a gorgeous interactive map ...

The Top 5 Game of Thrones Maps

A Map of Ice and Fire is an Esri map of the fantasy world portrayed in George Martin's series of novels A Song of Ice and Fire. Importan...

Happy Bloomsday Maps

James Joyce's epic novel Ulysses depicts the actions and thoughts of Leopold Bloom and other characters during one day, 16 June 1904. On...

The James Joyce Walking Maps

Admit it! You have never read James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. You may have started Joyce's epic novel numerous times but I know tha...

Putting Australia's Culture on the Map

The Cultural Atlas of Australia is a Google Map charting the locations used in Australian literature and film. The aim of the map is to trac...

Mapping the Odyssey

Over the centuries there have been numerous attempts to map the fictional locations in Homer's Odyssey to real-world locations. It is no...

An Ode to Street View

Street View can be so beautiful. It can raise your spirits and at times it can break your heart. If Lord Byron was alive today he would no d...