Gavin Fleming spotted this beautiful portrait on a map background at Maanskin in Greyton. The artist is Bella Maree
Monthly archives: May 2023
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Reinder shared this. “This window is part of the interior of the Amsterdam Bookshop ‘Pied à Terre’, that specializes in travel books, maps and guides about counties, cities, hiking etc. Cf. https://www.scheltema.nl/piedaterre/ Customers can add a Post-it, and mark the spot they visited. What do you think? Best regards from the Netherlands” […]
Anthony Burnett sent this pic of a stunning wall hanging from the Art Gallery of NSW in Australia he said “It’s missing Antarctica at the top, but otherwise pretty amazing.” For the northern hemisphere geographers who are confused, remember that we see the world upside down to our friends in […]
Anthony Burnett sent me this pic. “There’s an information sign at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-33.8059/151.19922 that uses wooden planks to represent the streets. Willoughby Road is the main join. French’s Road is the side road. The street numbers are the labels. Perhaps a darker colour would be better for the labels, but it still makes […]
Marianne Pietersen sent us this pic. “This a photo I took at an exhibition about the Aztecs (in the Australian Museum in Sydney – Darlinghurst).Also in December 2014. This tableau has a painted background and on the right hand top you can see a bit of the map of Teotihuacan.The […]
Until recently I knew very little about Vermeer, we went to a short talk about one of his paintings and the guide pointed out that in most of his portraits there is a picture and that was because as well as an artist he was an art dealer and he […]
Gavin Fleming sent this to us. “Map of Johannesburg projected on the University of Witwatersrand Great Hall as part of its centenary celebrations (Wits is my alma mater; photo credit Dr Mary Evans)” Pretty spectacular!
Barry Rudeman (Raremaps.com) posted this of a map embedded in a wall outside a bar in Szimpla Kert, Budapest. It seems to be connected to a petition about pedestrianisation.
Reinderf sent us this from his visit to Prague last year. “You can see the shape of the country Česká republika on the window of the Tourist Information Office. “
Shona Frost sent me this “Having received an invite to the BCS conference (which regrettably I can’t attend) it contained a link to your webpages. Suitably intrigued, I went to have a rummage and found your fantastic resource of maps out in the wild. Thanks for putting them onto a […]
Melinda Clarke sent me this beautiful pic of a map clock of Australia. Photo taken at a fabulous country pub – The Railway Hotel, Wangaratta, Victoria Australia. A creative way to use the old plaster left on the pub’s walls.
Reinder took these pics of a building in Amsterdam This map is based on a map of the North Pole by Cornelis Claesz. (1598) If you are wondering about Willem Barents
This big wall map/mural shows part of the surrounds to Rishikesh. Just look at the cable chaos coming out of the sockets in the bottom right hand corner, reminds me of the electricity cables running between many of the building in the dense urban areas of India.