Reinder was on vacation in Ireland and as he was travelling around he spotted lots of Maps in the Wild. So for the next few days I am posting a series based on his trip. Starting with this cartographic postcard that Reinder spotted (and hopefully purchased) complete with guidance for […]
Monthly archives: August 2023
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Another one from Andy Allan’s travels “Galeria Krakowska is a shopping mall in Kraków, Poland, located adjacent to the city’s main railway station. It has a huge but minimalist map showing the longitudes of various cities of Europe, along with some population-based scaling of the marker, and some rather dubious […]
Richard Martin sent us this pic from Cricklade in the Cotswolds, England “This lovely town near the Cotswold’s, known for being the first town on the Thames, has a number of these ‘3D’ maps to help visitors navigate around.
Andy Alan has been on holiday in the South of France. He took time to send us some pics of the panoramic maps that he and his wife spotted. “Along various parts of the Côte d’Azur, France, there’s a series of old hand-painted hilltop map pedestals. They were created by […]
Marc Tobias sent us this pic of the top shelf of a bar in Prague. I like the way they have incorporated the coordinates into the map frame.
Reinder sent us this “… on an early sunny morning in July, 2023, in Amsterdam, on the Oudezijds Voorburgwal. Let’s hope they had a wonderful time there.”
Gary Gale sent me this pic, he said “I’ve found the multiverse! We’re on the one at the top left corner in case you were wondering.” I’m not sure that Gary has really got the hang of this multiverse thing, but then neither have I!
Barry Ruderman from Raremaps.com spotted this “There Be Monsters” inspired by the map collection of the UK National Archives
Let’s be honest these fashion shoots would be pretty awful if the models were using satnav. Original credit: Jenny Marie Johnson
Any Japanese speakers out there who can enlighten us on to what this map is all about, please post a comment! Originally spotted by Timothy Morrissey on a calendar, who thinks it is some type of foliage map.
Mark Safran tweeted some great pictures a few years ago of this metal mural of the San Antonio river watershed. it must have taken a considerable amount of work to produce this. I’m not sure whether you are aloud to touch it, but it certainly looks very tactile!
Maps often appear on bottles of wine. We know that at Mappery, because the team have conducted extensive amounts of primary research on the topic. Ken spotted this one on a bottle from the Napa Valley. The simplicity of the contours and the river against dark bottle have such an […]
Benjamin Hennig posted some beautiful pictures on Twitter of an amazing relief map of Iceland in Reykjavik City Hall.
Shannon Gonzales 🐙(she/her) tweeted pictures of this flowery map of the USA at a California state fair.
