The Rubik’s cube was a great toy in the 1980s. Here’s a lesser known version and equally challenging.
Yearly archives: 2019
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Continuing the theme of Map T-Shirts. The nice people at Boundless had this great make your own map t-shirt of Boston activity by their booth at FOSS4G 2017 (which of course was in Boston). Lots of people chilled out while painting their personalised maps. I had a go but since […]
Last year’s FOSS4G EU in Guimaraes had some great map t-shirts including this one. I’m not sure whether this Brio inspired t-shirt can be considered a map but it was a rather good contrast to the one above.
Merryn Henderson drew my attention to a brilliant thread of tweets from Frank Cottrell-Boyce with maps from classic literary fiction. I’m not sure if these are #MapsintheWild but they are an absolute delight so I thought I would share them with you (apologies for the way some tweets in a […]
Seen on the London Underground in December, this poster sits next to the regular Tube Map that we all know. It shows Harry Beck’s original “diagram” of 1933 and a preceding “geographic” map from 1908. May not be quirky or wild but hey! I edit this thing so I get […]
Stanfords has been a ‘go to’ place for map lovers for over a century. Founded by Edward Stanford in 1853, they have been located in their current Long Acre premises since 1901. They are about to move to a new location in Mercer Walk and while clearing stock out of […]
Artsy world map in the American Airlines lounge at Dallas Fort Worth. If you look hard enough it’s a kind of distorted Mercator projection – very odd. Don’t look too hard though, just head to the bar.
Francisco Urbina sent us this magnificent street plan on a hoarding in Sydney ‘This was on a construction hoarding down on Sussex Street in Sydney and is a Fire Underwriters’ Association of NSW, Plan of Sydney 1917 – 1939 from the City of Sydney Archives It includes the Esri Australia building (you […]
Erik Meerburg of Geo Academie sent us this picture of the ceiling at Delft Station Hi Steven and Ken,It is a strange world… nobody showed you the ceiling at the Delft train station yet? It is a huge map of the city of Delft in the 19th century. And, of course, […]
Warren Davison (he is @WarrenDZ) sent us this globe showing a frozen North American map from Ontario “North America is in the midst of an ice age in this concrete globe with topographic relief It’s outside a local reclaimed materials outfit in the Waterloo, Ontario. Would have been salvaged from a […]
Barend Kobben sent us this ad “An advertisement for “The Whole World on your Plate” in a roadside restaurant along the A6 motorway in France (Burgundy)” The creator could have made an interactive version if they had used Leaflet (waits for the groans)
