Yearly archives: 2021
204 posts
Aris Roussinos shared this massive map of Egypt, I believe it is in the Ittihadeya presidential palace in Cairo (thx to Pol O’Gradaigh). Bonus points to all in the pic for their extra social distancing.
Happy New Year In 2020 we published 205 Maps in the Wild, that’s quite amazing and way beyond what we imagined might happen when we launched Mappery in September 2018. For the last 18 months or so I have been running Mappery pretty much on my own and now I’m […]
This one comes from the Harvard Map Collection, from the 1989 series of Garfield & Friends. Garfield hosts a TV show where he makes things up and says they are true. Garfield claims that the state of Wyoming does not exist. In 1789, Arbuckle Vespucci, famous explorer, was working on […]
Ron Halliday shared this great bit of geology with us. A pareidolia-induced map of Canada on a glacially-striated rock near Cusco, Peru. What can you identify?
Geke van de Kamp shared this. “The Map” a digital live map of NYC. About geographical versus geometry, connection tot reality. I am not sure whether it strictly qualifies as a Map in the Wild but at the end of a very stressful year it is very soothing. Mappy New […]
One for Ken and Mark who are very keen on Brewdog Beer. This jumbo map features in the new beer museum (who knew?) in Ellon, Scotland. Certainly one to visit if you are nearby.