Jeremy Morley spotted this classic school atlas style wrapping paper in Waterstones. Perfect for wrapping your gift to the mapwoman or mapman in your life.
Monthly archives: December 2022
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Hans van der Maarel send us his last Satnav, and I guess, just like me, a lot of our readers would love this present for Christmas 🥳
Elizabeth spotted this Raphael fresco. Some more details below Also a nice chronology and map of Raphael’s work (creation and display)
Long time ago Lyon was Lugdunum. The capital of the Gauls during the Roman Empire. As I grew up in this city, today is still a particular day. We celebrate the light on the 8th of December by burning tiny candles in our windows. And that is now the famous […]
Kate Whytlaw spotted this very appropriate use of a world map on the floor of the Mariners’ Museum in Newport, Virginia.
While Ken was in Florence for the International Cartographic Conference he managed to find time to visit the Uffizi Gallery Having only learned yesterday that today marked the reopening of the Uffizi ‘gallery of geographical maps’ after 20 years, I was duty bound to visit. Three stunning Renaissance maps painted […]
This chocolate wrapper comes from Rollo Home #mapsinthewild sorry, was eaten in a flash…otherwise I’d have shown how the map was also in the chocolate bar itself. Actually you’re lucky that wrapping survived…
Ken loves to take the mick (Brit phrase = make fun of) out of bad cartography, his brother Colin spotted this in North Wales A #mapsinthewild from the depths of North Wales this evening as @imacelebrity furthers the cause of dreadful #mapprojections (and some pretty awful colours too). I’m a […]