Yearly archives: 2021

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 […]

Ken Field, the co-founder of Mappery, has been pretty quiet on the site for the last year while he has been writing his second book through lockdown (more news on that soon hopefully) but he posted this packaging label to us. Not the most spectacular Map in the Wild but […]

Go figure how you play on this table or even why you would, let alone why someone made it, but you have to love it as a Map in the Wild. The pic comes via Geographic Mind (HT Raf) Me pregunto si las bolas pueden pasar por el istmo de […]

Thomas Gratier sent us this pic of a colourful world map made of wooden blocks from Rich Wood Art Studio. If you have a few thousand bucks to spare you could buy one here