Monthly archives: September 2019

Continuing the album cover theme, Mike Dolbow sent me this CD cover of Back Roads and Abandoned Motels by the Jayhawks

Elliot Hartley sent us this giant 3D map of Scotland from his half term holiday travels. “The Great Polish Map of Scotland is a large (50 m x 40 m) three-dimensional, outdoor concrete scale model of Scotland, located in the grounds of the Barony Castle Hotel, outside the village of Eddleston near […]

What could be better than an old map jigsaw? I foolishly bought this stunner thinking it would be fun but the uniformity of colour and micro text made a tough one to do. Here is a pic of the map without the jigsaw lines The map is early 17thC by […]

Matt Finish sent us these pics of his wife’s map suitcases (for ornamental use only). I like the one with them sitting next to the lamp with a map shade. Clearly a family dedicated to map tat, my kind of people 🙂 “Given to my wife – they’re decorative rather […]

Steven Ottens spotted this odd little map in his apartment in Bucharest while at FOSS4G. Let’s not go into the projection, the weird outlines etc or even the not uncommon omission of New Zealand. This map seems to be anticipating the exit of Britain not just from the European Union […]

Maria Arias de Reyna has been on hot form spotting Maps in the Wild while she was in Bucharest for FOSS4G. This one is a coffee map, it’s also the last of the FOSS4G series