Monthly archives: December 2019

This is Day 7 of the 12 Mappy Days of Christmas Tom Armitage made these map based decorations using a design from John Nelson

This is the 6th day of 12 days of Mappy Christmas It’s another beaut from Angharad Stone who thought her desk looked a bit drab so she sent me a pic of her beautiful globe decorated tree

This is day 5 of the 12 Mappy Days of Christmas. Reinder Storm sent us this card It’s a boomerang #postcard, they are disseminated in pubs, libraries etc. in the Netherlands for free. On the back it says:  “© Patrick Bergsma, Amsterdam 1993”.  Cf. cards.boomerang.nl/cards/

This is day 4 of the 12 Mappy Days of Christmas It’s Angharad Stone’s mappily decorated desk at the Environment Agency. Spare a thought for her and her colleagues who may find themselves called in to work if there is further flooding this year!

This is day 3 of the 12 Mappy days of Christmas Each year at Astun Technology (where I advise) we have a Secret Santa as part of our Xmas celebrations. Usually the gifts are somewhere between quirky and rubbish but this year was different. These globe cufflinks were a top […]

This is day 2 of the 12 Mappy Days of Christmas – there’s no seasoãl link but it is a delicious treat for any map lover at this time of year. Don Meltz shared this pic which truly is worthy of a caption competition and a prize.

I thought I would try to find a post-a-day for the 12 Mappy Days of Xmas. Here is Day 1. Dennis Bauszus sent us this picture of his mappy bow tie from the Geolytix xmas party. What more could you ask for on Xmas day, a silly hat, over the […]

Thierry Gregorius shared this sculptural map of Saudi Arabia and its provinces.

Andrew Newman sent us another Lego Globe to add to our collection

Raf sent us this pic from Barcelona How fitting that a shop named Marco Polo should use this lovely antique map as part of its shopfront

Elizabeth shared this pic of the napkin dispenser at Indigo, an Indian restaurant in Washington DC

Raf sent me this pic of a discarded globe which didn’t really get my interest until someone pointed out that it was South-Up. Was the globe made like this, was it mis-assembled or was it a deliberate statement?

This colourful map can be viewed in Winchester Library (spotted by Dave Lovell). I’m not sure where to start on this one: it is horrible, distorted, arbitrarily incomplete and randomly coloured. Perhaps a candidate for the 2019 Gromit Award.

Nigel Clifford (Deputy Chairman of the Geospatial Commission) spotted this map of His Majesties Private Road from London to Fulham embedded, as one would expect’ on the pavement of Kings Road. “The #geospatialthings you find. A map of the King’s roads, fittingly on the King’s Road.”

Amici is a little Italian delicatessen cafe near East Finchley tube station. If you are nearby I highly recommend it. The ceiling is bedecked with dozens of sports shirts, mainly football and cycling. I spotted this cycling top from the Giro tour of Italy with a map on the front […]