I love album covers, it used to be part of the excitement of getting a new album to drool over the covers in the record shop, open them up, read the sleeve notes and lyrics. That’s all gone now and I am showing my age. Anyway, here’s a mappy record […]
Monthly archives: June 2021
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Our Friend Erik encountered this map when walking near the village of Boskoop. Erik: “It shows the area of the local land consolidation project, with the participants. However, cartography-wise it raises some questions, like: does this map actually tell me something, and if so, what? Is this parcel division before, […]
I was walking on a path with a mate recently when I stumbled on Australia (well almost). This is the second time Australia has appeared in a path or road as a Map in the Wild, what countries have you spotted on your walks?
October, 3rd is the city’s main celebration, as it was liberated from the Spanish (yes, it was a few years ago). The keys are the main part of the city’s coat of arms. Couldn’t tell you who the person in blue is, but the map of the city centre is […]
Our friend Erik from the Geo Academie in Netherlands found this piece of art walking in city of Leiden in front of the Kweekschool voor Zeevaart.
Gareth Bellamy sent me this pic of the Petitou Cafe in the Bellenden Renewal zone of Southwark. There’s a cafe in Peckham, which has a paved outdoor dining area, which actually forms a map of the surrounding streets, including the railway lines. The terrace was designed by Loraine Rutt
This is a pure coincidence, we have some Maps in the Wild scheduled in a few days and weeks featuring the well known brick-based game/art with LEGO. As there are a lot of passionate fans about Maps and LEGO, the pictures came in number this year. Today LEGO launch its […]