Monthly archives: September 2024
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Reinder spotted this exquisite flyleaf detailing the travels of Marco Polo. I could gawp at this for ages without ever turning a page. The cover is pretty amazing too. BTW, today is Marco Polo’s birthday (born in 1254)
Greg Fiske said “Admiring the nexus of #IndigenousArt and #mapsinthewild this week. Dena’ina land” In case you are wondering Dena’ina is in south Alaska (the map shows the whole of Alaska)
Michel Stuyts asks “Am I the only one who sees this kind of clock in a shop and the first thing that comes to mind is: I wonder what kind of projection they used?” The answer is definitely not! There are thousands of map lovers here who would love to […]
Matt Malone shared this, he said “Stumbled upon this excellent woodcarved street map of Salt Lake City recently. Airports should have their own #MapsInTheWild category.” We don’t really do categories on Mappery because I would forget to tag things and Arnaud or Dan would probaly tag them differently and there […]
Julien Minet shared this spectacular mappy beer bottle. “Here again an association of cartography and beers, a hand-drawn map of some part of the Ardenne printed on a special edition of the Belgian beer La Tharée”
Brian shared these pics from Yellowhammer Brewing Co in Huntsville, AL. He said “The beer and pizza were great. Maps depict other microbreweries.” That’s one heck of a lot of micro breweries!
To celebrate the Paralympic Closing Ceremony, here are two pictures of the Olympics Closing Ceremony where the stage had the shape of the World
This rather fine coffee table, which used to belong to my father, depicts the River Thames all the way from source to mouth. The river has been carved into the table and then painted silver, with both ends then wrapping around the side of the table. I’m not sure who […]
Regulars will know that we get a lot of maps in the wild which feature, wine, spirits or beer. I couldn’t resist this Wainwright beer glass (suitably filled) for the last of my birthday sequence. Nick Hill sent this pic. “Not sure if you’ve had this one before? I saw […]
Happy Birthday to the incredible @mapsinthewild! 🎉 Mappery has been a constant source of inspiration for my wanderlust adventures. I’m sharing a photo of a motorbike I spotted in Toulouse, France to celebrate this special day. The licence plate from Germany stands for a long journey. The vibrant city always […]
Today is Mappery’s 6th birthday. Remarkable really that we have kept this up for 6 years, that’s just over 1600 posts with almost 2,500 images, 300 weekly email newsletters, thousands of social media follows (no longer X’ing) and a lot of support from our readers and contributors who have made […]
A bonus pic from Ken for our birthday. Ken was in New York recently and he sent this map in the wild from a diner that he stopped at. To fit the map into the available space they rotated it to west up.