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.
Yearly archives: 2019
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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 […]
Ben Hennig sent us this from Reykajvik “I love your ‘Maps in the Wild’, so I thought of adding a contribution to it from my little rock in the middle of the Atlantic. Though not fully ‘in the wild’, I think this is a pretty nice map to see when […]
Another map from Dave Lovell. This is the logo for the D-Day Story Museum. It may take you a minute to work it out. … the logo, which I have to confess I didn’t immediately recognise as containing a map. A very clever design I think and probably one of […]
Paul Hardy sent us this map of Norfolk (UK) “If you are short of maps in the wild, here’s one from my last weekend visit to the north coast of Norfolk (UK, not US). This was in the Ship Inn at Brancaster at 52.963N, 0.638E – head North from there, […]
Lauren Tierney must have had a maptastic vacation as she also sent us this relief map from Muir Beach Lookout in California, just north of SF.
Not really a Map in the Wild but this cartoon sums up the sorry state of Britain (no longer Great IMHO) in 2019. This was shared with me by my pal Erik Meerburg. I scheduled this to post on Brexit Day, who knows what will have happened by then.
Dave Lovell, who is competing for the Maps in the Wild Contributor of the Year Award, sent us this map on a t-shirt from the D-Day Story museum (more to follow). The ‘Bogus’ map being really ‘on the wild side’, names have been switched and it’s got the highest security […]
John Nelson shared this beer can which he kindly unrolled for us “There’s a #mapsinthewild hidden under the label of this @snakeriverbrew Paco’s IPA can.”
Lauren Tierney sent us this neat map of Chinatown, San Francisco which is set into the pavement which she spotted on vacation.
Marc Tobias Metten shared this globe which is on display in Schipol Airport. I think the pins represent destinations that you can fly to from Schipol. I like the use of physical Google Maps pins