Monthly archives: June 2023

Brian Sullivan shared this picture taken in Port Townsend WA

Charlie Verdel has used some cool technical wizardry (QGIS and rayshader) to add a 3D effect to this 1970 stamp of Amsterdam Island

Stefan Freeman sent us a pic of a hand holding a globe in Bet She’an, Israel. I happened to be there during this trip to Israel so I managed to get some extra pics and also see if I can find out if there was a back story to this […]

Erik is on a roll, he spotted this mappy shirt at a concert in Amsterdam

Did you know that for over 100 years until 2003 an underground railway network transported mail and parcels between London sporting offices? We took a ride on the Mail Rail and I spotted this map of its route. For more info see https://www.postalmuseum.org/collections/story-of-mail-rail/

Ian Wagner shared this, apparently it is “Near 부선역” I am taking a guess that that is South Korea but apologise if I have got that wrong!

Marc Tobias had sent me a pic of his thermal world mail mug and I had to have one. So when we meet for lunch after the April Geomob he brought me one. When the mug is cold, the map is all black. But when you fill it with a […]

Doug shared this pic taken in his room at Home2 Suites in Philadelphia. Nice mappy background.

I met Helen at Geomob London in April. I asked her if I could take a pic of her Mappy scarf and she countered that we had just been at an event with over 100 Map lovers so there must be lots of Mappy items but there weren’t. Thanks to […]

Another beauty from Robert Graham I found this bench with a map on it along the sea wall in Galveston, TX , USA

Erik shared this “Maybe not a #mapsinthewild, but still a love… or something like that.” I think it just passes my impossibly low criteria

Alastair Graham sent me this pic of the Cleveden Oar “Seen inside the Little Harp Inn on Clevedon sea front. Although not BBC anymore the radio masts still exist. The rifle range does not!” I am trying to work out how you could use this for navigation while rowing.

Anton van Tetering shared this map that he spotted in the lobby of the 15M hotel in Montparnasse

Erik shared this mappy armchair

We went to the safari park and zoo just outside Tel Aviv to visit a friend recently. At the entrance to the zoo is a globe which shows some of the animals in the zoo. Leopards used to roam in the desert regions of Israel but they are almost extinct […]