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
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This shop at Heathrow flogging souvenirs to departing travellers has taken one of the most admired cartographic designs of the 20th century, cut a bloody big hole in it for a flat screen telly to promote the sale of more crap, stacked up some ugly boxes of product in front […]
My dear friend Giuseppe has lots of hobbies and recently he has taken up embroidery and of course one of his early works is a map. Not much to see now but we’ll be following Giuseppe’s creation as it gets closer to completion.
I was in Bristol recently walking along the harbourside when I spotted this fingerpost pointing to places near and far away. The other side of each finger pointed to a different destination.
Stephen Mather shared this, he said “The wall inspired the placement of this particular map. Imhof would have been inspired by the lighting in this room. Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA” “It is so beautifully placed. And the room has windows on 3 sides all with their own particular light, but […]
Erik shared some pics from the QGIS user conference. Angelina’s badge is a map of the municipality of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, and includes a minimap of the country she’s from. And here is Erik’s badge (guess where he is from?)
Now, this is what the Mappery team call a Golden Globe! Original credit: Barry Ruderman from Raremaps.com with a few other maps in the wild at the national maritime museum in Greenwich.
I was wandering in Sunny London when I discovered these contour lines at the Japan House London. It was impossible to take a clear shot, so I came back by night, kind of easy in winter, as this is just the end of the afternoon. More information about the exhibition […]
Ken spotted this humorous pictorial map of the gastronimic origins of a range of French delicacies in a small café in Palm Springs.
A fantastic 3D pub sign in the form of a Globe at the World’s End pub in Edinburgh. The exterior walls of the pub formed part of the Flodden Wall that enclosed Edinburgh, beyond which inhabitants used to think the world had ended (which is odd considering the bloody great […]
Visible in the London tube. Here is what one can find visiting the in and out of the Bakerloo Line. And celebrating 8 years in London for me.