Monthly archives: November 2022

Perhaps the most notable feature of the station is its series of abstract maps, made from an intriguing assortment of materials. Here is one of East Berlin.

Chris North from Esri Canada was looking for the right tie on @gisday 2021. What will be his choice for the 2022 edition?

Mark Wilcox shared this pic of a map covered suitcase that he spies at the Classic exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC. It’s sitting on top of a classic red mini which takes me back to my teens, mine was yellow.

I guess the pun is intended with another very local alcohol well-known in the Alps; for reference here is the article about the Génépi

In a coffee joint at the central railway station in Utrecht, the Netherlands, they indicate from what direction the raw material originally comes from. But seen from Utrecht: Sumatra is not quite in the west, and neither are Kenya, Ethiopia etc.

Good old empirical K.u.K. mapping… Always so anaesthetically pleasing and technically fascinating – Goldberggletscher 1909 Austria sighted University of Zurich

Christian Guémy is a French artist, one can follow his work on his Instagram account christianguemy

Thank you Anne-L for sharing your creation and all the #mapsinthewild you find

Walking along the side of the Google land scraper (a tower block lying on its side) there are a series of signs promoting the greening of the Kings Cross urban area It feels like a touch of greenwashing to be erecting a building with the footprint of an aircraft carrier […]