Yearly archives: 2023

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 […]

Reinder sent us this pic of a neat cycle courier bag complete with a map of Amsterdam, useful if you are making deliveries in the central area!

Erik spotted this at the picture by Sueur at theLouvre. Plan of the Charterhouse of Paris, carried by Two Angels (1645-1648)From the small cloister of the Carthusian monastery in Paris.

Robert Graham sent us thispic which he spotted in Houston, Texas.

At friends the other week for dinner and we were drinking this lovely mappy, fruity, Italian white wine.

On Easter Monday, my wife suggested that we go to the Spain and the Hispanic World exhibition at the Royal Academy. There are a couple of maps, she teased to get me interested. Well there were more than a couple of maps! This is another longish post with a load […]

Christian Sommer spotted this map / sculpture / picture showing ‘hypsometric layers, vegetation (and delta deposits?)’

Cartographic sartorial elegance from T.J.Maxx? Fascinating showing the Americas drifting in a north easterly direction. Or just the shirt designer not giving much thought to what the map looks when it is buttoned up? Original credit: HarvardMapCollection