Yearly archives: 2020

Geke van de Kamp has sent me some great images but as the year draws to a close this one has to be one of my favourites. This just sums up 2020 for me. Geke wins a double prize for closing out 2020 and opening 2021 on Mappery.

My pal Steven Ramage sent me this map of the vineyards of Beaune that he spotted on a street wall.

Spotted in Park Street, Southwark by Elizabeth

Arie Slob is the Minister of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands, so what else would you expect on his office wall? Via Reinder Storm

Paul Hardy shared this Another candidate for maps in the wild – Village map on wall of bus shelter in the small village of Thorpe in Derbyshire, UK, at 53°03’04.5″N+1°46’09.7″W Thorpe is one of the nearest villages to Dovedale, which is a favourite tourist spot in the White Peak area […]

Ken Bernard shared this Minnesota mappy decoration

Stanfords has been “map heaven” for Londoners for over 150 years. Covid has had a double impact on them – a massive drop off of visitors to central London plus a complete collapse in travel (their staple). If you have never visited Stanfords I highly recommend a pilgrimage. I interviewed […]

Anthony Robinson shared this neat Austrian globe decoration, an egg painted with a historical globe scene from a shop in Salzburg. The second one is an outline of Austria, also purchased in Salzburg. It looks Mappy and it is Christmas

This is a linocut by Jess Baker Outside of my GIS job, I am also an artist! Here’s my latest design – a huge A2 linocut piece celebrating the unspoiled beauty of Antarctica. The contour lines on the map are even geographically accurate, would you believe. Pretty cool detail for […]

Abi shared these vintage globe Xmas tree decorations. A great start to this year’s 12 Mappy Days of Xmas

You would expect my co-editor Ken Field to have some Mappy Christmas decorations and here they are.

Have a good one!

My friend Abigail Page was missing her team’s face to face Christmas gathering which had to switch to virtual so she made this Origami Christmas Tree from an old map. Seasons greetings to all of our readers, we are going to shower you with mappy posts over the next 2 […]

Erik Meerburg sent this At 52 north. More or less exact. #mapsinthewild or at least #lattitudeinthewild

Hans van der Maarel shared this tactile map. In Zwolle for a short cycling trip, couldn’t resist taking a photo of this tactile historic city model on the street #map #cartography #citymodel