Monthly archives: February 2024

Happy Leap Day! “Who knew that shallots were mini topo maps” posted Amanda Huber with quite some leap of the imagination!

A cartofailure with a Tattoo, thanks to @lecartopgraphe for sharing. Just in time to celebrate #MapFailbruary

Some impressive maps which look like they are marble on the floor of @paleisamsterdam, originally posted by Barry Ruderman from Raremaps.com

Pretty cool map in the wild on a gate in the streets of Haarlem. Original post: Maria Ruehringer

Ken posted this bottle of Line39 named after the 39th parallel and claiming to be “wine without parallel” (contains sulphites). Hmm.

Quite an outfit! Originally posted by Kurt Menke – geomenke@fosstodon.org

Some African throws in Eastern DC market, originally posted Rhodes Cartography

Saudi Arabia’s provinces on stilts posted by Thierry Gregorius

If you have to print something on a case of wine then why not print a map of its origin? I admire Reinder’s choice of wines.

Neon map in the wild from Ken

Some interesting maps in the wild at the Eden project in Cornwall posted by Barry at RareMaps.com

Michael Migurski shared this pic of a couple of bottles of wine with contour lines on the labels. I guess you might get high while drinking these!

Tom Chadwin spotted this manhole cover on his travels. Useful if the firemen weren’t sure where they were!

Ed Freyfogle spotted this beautiful relief map in the visitor centre at the Hainich National Park in central Germany

From Reinder “… at the exhibition about Julius Caesar at the H*ART Museum in Amsterdam” https://hartmuseum.nl/nl/tentoonstellingen/julius-caesar/