Jeremy shared a pic of the recyclable beer glasses at the yNOT festival. Is that a semi-conical projection?
Monthly archives: August 2024
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Reinder sent us this interesting map sculpture “I spotted this specimen of street furniture — in fact: my wife did. What you see is the outline of the island Schouwen-Duiveland, part of the Dutch province Zeeland. The white ball is actually on the spot of the town Zierikzee. Very quiet […]
Kate shared this “Neat (and mappy!) Final Jeopardy trivia from the other night: “Early 1900s labels for this beverage brand featured a beaver sitting on a log at the top of a map.” I am wondering whether the “Dry” refers to the taste or Prohibiton
When Erik was in Dubrovnik for a conference he ended up in this bar with colleagues. “With the #CLGE delegates you always end up at a #MapsintheWild bar…”
Pieter is a true map geek. “I wanted to learn the names of the neighbourhoods in #Ghent, so I made me a #puzzle. I added the neighbourhoods in #OpenStreetMap , then made a custom theme in #MapComplete and use the ‘export as PNG’-functuon. The background is a modified stylesheet for […]
Matt Malone spotted this t-shirt in a local thrift shop. “Found a new shirt for my next #GIS conference” I’ve got a feeling that will prompt quite a lot of conversation!
Garrett Speed shared this “This Afghani restaurant in ‘s-Hertogenbosch has a bread holder with a map of Afghanistan as the base”
Harry Wood wrote “We arrived at Ilhabela for some Brazil beach time. It’s an island off the Sao Paulo coast. Here’s the kids getting tactile with a relief map in the hotel.” Looks like fun
Via Reinder “This fantastic piece of textile art by Miep van Riessen consists of embroidered names of victims, and is at the same time a quite adequate ‘geographical impression’ of the region where the disaster took place: the Dutch province of Zeeland. “
Reinder shared this “On the 1st of February 1953 a disastrous flood occurred in the southwest of The Netherlands. More than 1800 people lost their lives and an entire infrastructure was devastated. This is known as the Watersnood, and it is the topic of the Watersnoodmuseum in Ouwerkerk in the […]