This has to be an early candidate for Map in the Wild of the Year Reinder Storm spotted this at the Ukrainian Embassy in The Hague. Sometimes a map says more than thousands of words.
Yearly archives: 2022
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Already featured on the blog, this time Angharad Stone sent us some in vivo pics of Flying Carpet by Seyed Alavi. This carpet is situated in the Sacramento Airport: Pedestrian bridge from the parking garage to the terminal A.
Karen Nicholl sent me this map of Oakham that she spotted “I found this rather nice illustrated map of Oakham hanging in a corridor whilst staying at the Hambleton Hall Hotel.” You might be thinking that this isn’t very wild, wellI might agree but my wife and I stayed at […]
I spotted this star map, the Nebra Sky Disc, at the Stonehenge exhibition at the British Museum. It dates back to 1600 BCE so it’s certainly the oldest map we have featured on the site and possibly the oldest Map in the Wild in the world. Pretty darn cool, a […]
Amy shared this photo from her living room watching the 2021 London Marathon. Obviously, the best outfit to be featured on Maps in the Wild.
Back in October, the conference took place in Saint Die. My friends from tweeter shared this stand. This company is selling products with maps on them. Card games, etc
Andrew Newman shared this pic of his son’s lego box, serendipitously the map brick lands face up on top of the pile. Who’d have thought!
We went to the Science Museum in South Kensington today. There was a gallery showing scientific developments in 17th and 18th century London. Just drool over this amazing globe of the moon from 1797. I also loved this pocket globe tracking Captain Cook’s journeys, also from the end of the […]
Douglas Greenfield sent us these pics of the Eartha installation at Garmin’s offices. Here are a bunch of picture I took or Eartha. Back before Garmin took over we would stop there every year on the way to our vacation rental in Maine. Now the store is gone and I […]
