Jessica Kane sent me this pic of a very mappy hat. She said “Stopped to chat with a friend running on a country road near Gaylord, MI, USA while I was driving home. Here’s the hat he was wearing!” Turns out that the coordinates are almost exactly where Jessica lives! […]
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Kenneth Field spotted this in a pub in Southampton and wondered what happened to Shetland and Ireland. I’m wondering what happened to T-Bone, Filet, Skirt, Porterhouse, Tomahawk …
We haven’t had a contribution from Elizabeth for a while. This one is from the Festival Hall at London’s South Bank – good sentiment IMHO
Like father, like daughter. Reinder sent this pic that his daughter had spotted while walking the Camino in Spain. Proof of origin of the Gouda is confirmed by including a map of the Netherlands in the packaging, who’d have thought?
Andrew Newman sent me this pic of a massive map type display in what he describes as a derelict office, I am sure the focus on the Americas is purely coincidental.
Continuing Demeter’s mini series on transport hubs, here is a map of major rail connections from the Gare de Geneva in Switzerland
Demeter Sztanko noticed that around the world large transport hubs ike to display massive maps like this one in Keflavik Airport in Iceland. Nice relief shading. A couple more in the same vein to follow.
Gary Gale is back! Luke Jerram’s Gaia globe at the Landmark Arts Centre in Teddington (https://www.landmarkartscentre.org/gaia/)
I’ve lost track of who sent me this pic, I must confess that with contributions flying in from the site formerly known as twitter, mastodon, email and WhatsApp the best of systems occasionally stumble. Let me know if you sent this and I will update with a credit. There was […]
And so we get to the end of Reinder’s holiday pix. “Saw this one, part of a very sympathetic exhibition at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. “
Celebrating the Anniversary of Maps in the Wild: A Cartographic Adventure Back in London after a rather unusual summer, I found myself gearing up for a unique celebration. This time of year is now known as the birthday of the “Maps in the Wild” website. With immense gratitude, I’d like […]
To mark Mappery’s birthday, Steven suggested we all post a special one! Maps in the Wild often feature in drinks marketing on branded glasses, bottles of wine, or cans of beer. There’s even a beer from the Bristol Beer Factory which has got a map covering where I live, which […]
So it is a double birthday today! Today is Mappery’s fifth birthday, it’s wonderful and a bit surprising that the thing that Ken and I started when we were on Safari together has lasted this long. In 5 years we have published 1,250 articles which included almost 2,000 pictures. We […]