Barry Ruderman form Raremaps.com posted this map in the wild on one of the glass houses at Kew Gardens during the Orchid Festival last year. The Wallace Line is a boundary line drawn by Alfred Wallace an English biologist in 1859 that separates the biogeographical regions of Australia and Southeast […]
Monthly archives: January 2024
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My friend Tony Gee has just had a book published on his work with kids over the last 30 years or so, when he sent me the release notes I knew that we had to feature this as a wild Map in the Wild! I asked Tony about the cover […]
Ed Freyfogle shared this image of the coastline of Dubai. “In recent decades major UAE city Dubai has grown and grown, with lots of new construction, including massive artificial islands and peninsulas along the coast. One such project, named “The World“, is in the shape of the world, making it […]
Fred Calef sent us this pic of Captain Cook‘s memorial plaque in Westminster Abbey, I like that his name sits between Francis Drake and Francis Chichester, I wonder if there is something special about the name Francis A memorial to Captain James Cook, Sir Francis Drake and Sir Francis Chichester […]
Jan Andriaenssens shared this beauty with us. “Map art in the “Ankh-Morpork” meeting room at “imec Antwerp” in Belgium”
One of our followers who goes by the handle @IIVQ sent us this picture of the carpet in their office. “The red lines are actual bus lines run by the company, except this line has a different route since the carpet was laid!” It makes me wonder whether there is […]
credit: Christian Guémy, This map in the wild comes from the French Artist Christian Guémy. I am a fan of his work on maps but also all the street art, more over his engagement. Please pay a visit to his Instagram account christianguemy Stendhal is a 19th-century French writer. He […]
A chart of Falmouth Harbour (Massachusetts that is) making a decent lampshade here. Original post: Greg Fiske
Whoever designed this ‘map’ of a store layout really hadn’t grasped the basics of perspective, unless the floor slopes massively uphill to those fitting rooms, or the shop gradually tapers to a narrower length at the grocery end. Original post: Brian Kingery
Not sure whether the idea behind this is that you stick a pin in it to show where your heart is? Original post: Lauren Winkler
Ken spotted this globe used as the stone of an avocado in Tancitaro – one of the worlds largest avocado producers.
Amazing how Tanners the wine merchants have found a map of three wine bottle shaped mountains to feature in their shop window. Must be quite an intriguing landscape – almost as remarkable as the Eagle shaped mountain we featured back in November! Original post: Jon Haycox