Monthly archives: March 2023

Walter Schwartz sent us this pic which he found in a shop, Ten Thousand Villages, in Austin, Texas. “The maps are produced by women artisans of the “St. Mary’s Mahila Shikshan Kendra,” a Dominican Sisters organization that teachers the art Kathiyawadiembroidery with tiny mirrors. It’s 24 inches x 36 inches and is made of […]

Kate Leroux liked the look of this model and ZipLine map from her visit to Crater Lake in Oregon. It’s great that the safety conscious monkey is wearing a hard hat!

@geointer found a shop in Copenhagen selling a collection of great looking globes. I’m assuming these are the Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion projection but would be happy to be corrected! I like the fact that there is one of what appears to be the moon too!

Lauren Tierney of the Washington Post, loves this collection of maps and topographic models in the University of Wisconsin’s Madison Science Hall.

Fell runner, author and Chair of the Society of Cartographers, Steve Chilton was given these three mugs as a birthday present, of the Three Peaks – the highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales. The Three Peaks Challenge is an event where participants have to ascend every peak within 24 […]

A political and topographic map featuring on this mural on the wall of a library in Atlantic City, spotted by Rosemary Wardley

Samara Ebinger was given some socks in a box with a map of Northfield in Vermont on the lid claiming that it is the Sock Capital of the World. Like me, I’m sure you are all wondering when it overtook Fort Payne, Alabama.

Diane Fritz found this great brass “MasterMap” in Minnehaha Creek, Minnesota. It’s even self referential, mapping its own location at site 3! @OrdnanceSurvey, where are your brass ones?

To mark International Womens’ Day 2023 it seems fitting to post the first global map of the ocean floor produced by Marie Tharp and her colleague Bruce Heezen in 1977 when it was published in the National Geographic magazine. Twenty years earlier, the pair mapped the floor of the North […]

Dan Harris spotted this map on the ceiling of a hotel near the Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond. A more literal interpretation of the high road than the song originally intended!

Elizabeth gave me this programme from a concert at London’s Southbank Centre. Nice combination of a musical instrument with the globe and the newspaper.

My sister spotted this beautiful globe at Petworth House, it is allegedly the first English terrestrial globe. In the 16th century, accurate maps and globes were critical to planning trade, maritime navigation, foreign policy and warfare. Indeed, the quality of the information they supplied could determine success or failure, life […]

The Rising Sun pub just around the corner from Bristol City’s home ground has gone for some Ordnance Survey historic mapping of the local area for its wallpaper. A cartographically savvy away fan has articulated his thoughts about Bristol City in some accurately georeferenced graffiti in the field where Ashton […]

Ed sent me a Stanfords voucher at the end of the year and I recently got round to spending it. Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall is a fascinating book on Geo-Politics, I highly recommend it. London, A History in Maps by Peter Barber is a treat for map lovers, […]

Yesterday, we went on an outing to the Magnificent Maps of London exhibition at the London Metropolitan Archive, it is open until the end of March and is well worth a visit but in case you can’t get to it here are a few highlights. I know that some of […]