Darrel Furhiman sent me this lovely pic of an old decorative plate with a map of the Panama Canal that he spotted on the wall at Dan and Louis’ Oyster House in Portland, OR
Monthly archives: August 2023
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Professional cartographers see maps everywhere. Ken can’t even get through a bowl of caramel cluster cornflakes without spotting Antarctica in it. Source: Kenneth Field
Technically reading a map in the wild, isn’t really a “Map in the Wild”. Once in a while though we’re prepared to break our own self imposed strict editorial guidelines and this is such a great photo in such a beautiful location at Mount Whitney, that we’ll let this one […]
Paul Smith might be great at cutting cloth, but have still got a bit to learn about cutting holes in maps. Just a little further south west and it would have fit beautifully in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Sri Lanka, without taking out half of South East Asia. […]
A somewhat abstract map being used in some sort of fantasy boardgame! Credit: Foot Of The Mountain Adventures
“This is not just any map in the wild. This is a juicy M&S currency exchange desk map in the wild …” Reference likely to be completely lost for anybody outside the UK. Original credit: Tony Timlin
Our friend Cartonaut shared this tea towel map of spicy dishes from Minnesota At #NACIS 2022 in Minneapolis, Faye Passow presented on her lively and humorous work.Spirited, eclectic, quirky, joyful, and idiosyncratic in style and form, while deeply aware of context in art and cartography, these maps and their nostalgic messages also […]
Lene Fischer shared this At Hotel Sakskøbing the owners son has made this map – to show guests that Sakskøbing is more than this hotel.
Barry Rowlingson shared this pic of a mappy mug that he spotted in a charity shop. Cartographers can you name the projection?
Raf shared this pic of a water bottle that he spotted, seems appropriate to highlight how much of the globe is oceans.
Ivan Sanchez shared this with me a while ago, he said It’s built around 32 vertical strips built the same way, so it will get repetitive if you build it in one sitting.The construction techniques are very clever (and that’s the bit that I did enjoy a lot). Fun is […]
Alexander Pescud, a cartographer and illustrator from Bulli, drew this beautiful map of Wollongong. It took over 500 hours of meticulous work to finish this labour of love! If you are wondering where Wollongong is (I was), it’s South of Sydney. Australians seem to go in for these stunning hand […]