The source material for the project will be a document from the 18th century: Ma jor Schnitler's border examination protocols. The digitally available, TEI encoded textual version of this material will be used as the source for a database.

This database will represent a model of the geographical information I read from the text.This model will be a version of the geographical information in the source text, expressed in a formal language. The model will also store contradictory facts if and when they exist. Possible contradiction can be found using rules of calculation that will be developed on top of the model. The model will be used to investigate my hypothesis by trying to express the information in the model as maps.Based on the results of this research, I will discuss the possible existence of geographical structures and feat ures found in the model that can not be expressed on maps without significant loss of meaning.