I’m at a loss as to who sent me this pic of an interactive map card that they stumbled upon, I hope they will remind me.

This is a brilliant gift card, pull the tab at the top to select one of the major cities and the card displays the distance to each of the remaining cities. One could speculate on why York and Newcastle get precedence over Leeds, or Plymouth and Dover over Bristol?

I think Mark Iliffe sent me this pic of Arnold Schwarzenegger promoting his Fair Maps campaign. Having taught a workshop with Jeremy Morley on redistricting, I know how easy it can be to influence electoral outcomes through the maps that we draw. In the England we have the Boundary Commission to set political boundaries, in the USA the process seems to much more politicised.

Simon Navin shared these pics from a conference centre in Marylebone, central London.

Always nice to see an @OrdnanceSurvey map greet me at a meeting…as well as another icon #tubemap 

Also, the handrail on the OS map looks like some kind of amazing slide you can hop on between Maida Vale and Burgess Park…

Looks like a mappy form of snakes and ladders to me.

Define bliss for a map loving oenophile? This is it, now can you guess who sent us this pic?

Neil Ackroyd shared this mappy lamp from the trendy nHow hotel in north London.

David Moed sent me this pic of Life spring water with a nice map on it.

Seems that regardless of whether you choose sparkling or still you don’t get the Americas (or is that the photos?)

Liam Mason sent me this lovely map of the Galapagos Islands which his girl friend spotted when she was exploring Isabela Island.

I know that the purists amongst our readers may protest that this is not a map in the wild but it is covered in wild animals, birds and fishes. Anyway, how many of us have visited the Galapagos?

Another one from Ken, he called this a forearm smash (?).

I don’t understand why people want to have tattoos, they don’t age well. It seems we are getting quite a few map tattoos though.

Rosemarie North shared this mappy cushion design.

“#DYK Kuala Lumpur means muddy confluence (of 2 rivers)? Great map of the founding spot printed on cloth by Kotaku design.”

Wikipedia questions this etymology but the design is still pretty.

Mark Safran shared these pics of some massive mappy canvases by Mark Bradford at The Broad in downtown LA. More #MapsInTheWild, but this time also literally #MapsAsArt Mark Bradford’s beautiful map paintings at the TheBroad