On Wednesday evening I went along to the Argent office in Kings Cross for the Longitude Space event run by co-editor Ken Field and his colleagues Chris Wesson and Ben Flanagan. Argent are a property developer who are responsible for the regeneration of the Kings Cross area amongst other projects. […]
Monthly archives: November 2019
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Tom Armitage sent me this cover by the band Saint Etienne who I had not heard of. “The album’s cover art was designed by Manchester art collective Dorothy. Band member Bob Stanley explained, “They had done this map of a fictional area with all these road names, which were songs. I just got in […]
When I was young you used to see these Michelin maps all over the place, particularly outside garages. Nowadays there aren’t many around. Andrew Newman spotted this old and rusty map at Much Wenlock in Shropshire.
Paul Naylor spotted this Map Man in a bookshop window in Hay-on-Wye “Da da da da da da da da MAPMAN! Spotted at #hayonwye #mapman #maps #cartography”
Luke Harvey spotted this map on the cover of the Metro, London’s free morning paper available on the Underground (July 18th 2019). Apparently the average commute to work in London takes 74 minutes, the map shows some alternative destinations that you could choose instead of going to work. Normally I […]
This is a pretty big (although basic) map. I like the sign for the restrooms just west of the I270 “A local mall of ours uses a big mural map to tell you where they’re located! https://www.westfield.com/wheaton/stores/all-stores“
Quite a few of our friends have been spotting maps in Japan recently. Barend Kobben sent me this map of Hokkaido which he spotted in Sapporo.
Today is GIS Day (for open source geeks, tomorrow is PostGIS Day) Angharad Stone, who is one of the map-maddest people I know, shared this globe cake that she baked for GIS Day. I couldn’t resist asking “What kind of cake is that? Extra Strong Raspberry & Imbe?” I think […]
Paul Hardy shared these massive maps from the Memorial Hall at Madingley American Cemetery. “Here are two really big maps from a building in my locality – on the inside and the outside of the Memorial Hall at the Madingley American Cemetery, at 52.216 N, 0.056 E (close to the […]
Tom Ermitage sent us these lions of an impressive relief map of the Cairngorms which he thinks was a plaster of paris mould “Some great mappy finds in the Pine Marten Bar in Glenmore, #Cairngorms. I really love the old 3D relief map. cc @MapsintheWild #cartography “ Here is some more […]
According to Lauren Tierney this mat is in the shape of Newport, OR. I am going to have to take her word for it as I can’t see the resemblance. Ditto for this t-shirt although I can recognise the shape of the mat above in the second block below. Why […]