October, 3rd is the city’s main celebration, as it was liberated from the Spanish (yes, it was a few years ago). The keys are the main part of the city’s coat of arms. Couldn’t tell you who the person in blue is, but the map of the city centre is obvious, including the “you are sitting here” marker.
Erik from the geo-academie (NL)
Our friend Erik from the Geo Academie in Netherlands found this piece of art walking in city of Leiden in front of the Kweekschool voor Zeevaart.
Gareth Bellamy sent me this pic of the Petitou Cafe in the Bellenden Renewal zone of Southwark.
There’s a cafe in Peckham, which has a paved outdoor dining area, which actually forms a map of the surrounding streets, including the railway lines.
The terrace was designed by Loraine Rutt
This is a pure coincidence, we have some Maps in the Wild scheduled in a few days and weeks featuring the well known brick-based game/art with LEGO. As there are a lot of passionate fans about Maps and LEGO, the pictures came in number this year.
Today LEGO launch its new product: a World Map in 2D with 11,695 elements which become the largest set ever by numbers of pieces.
2D is OK, but our co-founder Kenneth Field built a globe in 3D. So let’s begin the series with this one
Ken Field, the co-founder of Mappery, has been pretty quiet on the site for the last year while he has been writing his second book through lockdown (more news on that soon hopefully) but he posted this packaging label to us. Not the most spectacular Map in the Wild but it’s nice to have Ken back on the site.
