Yearly archives: 2023

MapTiler folks shared these pictures taken while in Olomouc (Czechia) for a meetup. The upper town square has lots of brass sculptures, including a beautiful map with dophins leaping out of it and a model of the town centre

Reinder pointed out that this bottle of Talisker Whisky has a label shaped like the coast of the Isle of Skye showing the location of the distillery. It also has a stopper with a map of the whole island. I can confirm that this is a fine single malt.

Thank you Terrible Maps for sharing this board of charcuterie in the shape of France. Le pâté en croûte is indeed a specialty from where I come from. But that is the only true fact on this map.

In the Old City of Jerusalem I spotted this mirror shaped like the borders of Israel outside a small jewellery shop called, The Coral Beach. They invited you to take a selfie, I couldn’t resist

Tony Hauck (pseudo?) shared this picture from the Krka National Park in Croatia.

This is the last one in the big batch from Elizabeth’s Indian trip. It’s a big view of the Ganges

Reinder shared this. Dutch author Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (b. 1968) wrote a new and quite voluminous book on the classical Greek politician Alkibiades. One of the best bookshops of Amsterdam, Athenaeum Booksellers, decorated the window for the occasion with an appropriate map of Greece in antiquity.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcibiades The book comes […]

Angharad Stone I found a map. A map of sake!! Niigata prefecture is where most of the sake comes from, this map shows the breweries that the current selection of sake for tasting are for @MapsintheWild Thank you Angharad!

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 […]