Matt Malone spotted this one in the Toledo Zoo aquarium, saying. “I love how they made sure to include Hawaii on its own tile.” he says. We agree .. its often those small details that show off how much thought goes into makers of Maps in the Wild.
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Elizabeth shared this pic. Banners is a nice cafe in Crouch End, they were part of a halloween promotion in the area.
A lovely historic map surrounding an ATM posted on the platform formerly known as Twitter by ᴮʳⁱᵗᵗᵃ ᴿⁱᶜᵏᵉʳ . We try and pinpoint the location of all our Mappery posts we find for the Mapping Maps in the Wild page. Sometimes it takes a bit of detective work – all […]
We went to Christiana, which is a self styled free town in Copenhagen. Here is a beautiful map of the area which identifies all of the homes and other buildings. Christiana is is an intentional community and commune in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of Copenhagen, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania If you want to […]
So simple and so beautiful. This is the Copenhagen metro map, clearly influenced by Beck but with Danish style
We are in Copenhagen for a few days, my wife decided that she would take responsibility for guiding us on a walk around the city using a paper map, remember those? She is one of those people who always prefers the map facing in the direction of travel which paper […]
Reinder spotted this cute miniature classroom with some kind of map on the wall, at the museum Huis van Gij in Dordrecht. They have a selection of 19th century toys including a kiss globe. See https://www.huisvangijn.nl/english/
Matt Mallone shared this. “Do you want your pic taken by the giant map?” isn’t really even a legit question for a geographer.
John Ievers sent me this one. I said to him the it looks like a fun game and he replied “More of a taxing game than a fun game. You can’t fit all the cards together with only 4 sides e.g. France or the Balkans. That is where you can […]
The one and only Reinder sent us these pictures. Reinder Storm We saw this work of art by Philippe Aïni at an exhibition in the Abbaye d’Auberive, in the northeast of France.
This remarkable map projection illustrates how the world’s oceans form one continuous unbroken water body that is bounded by the continental land masses. Whilst the Mercator projection has been with us since 1569, it was nearly 400 years later in 1942 that the Spilhaus projection was developed. This beautiful map […]