Yearly archives: 2024
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Elisha is a Nigerian restaurant near Covent Garden in London. If you look carefully and your geography is fair you can see where the “I” is pointing.
Marc-Tobias has been visiting Hiroshima in Japan and shred these awesome street maps that he spotted. He said:
Eve Kahn shared these amazing pictures from the Awe of the Arctic exhibition currently showing at the New York Public Library (until July 13, 2024) “Nutjuitok (Polar Star) After Matthew Henson 1866 is a series of photographic works that Terry Adkins dedicated to the African American explorer Matthew Henson. Henson […]
I wanted to share one of my favourite places in London, so this beautiful map lies on Portobello Road on the farthest side of the flea market. I shot the pictures in December; the weather was not so great, which is rare, as London is always sunny.
Barry Rowlingson spotted this tattoo. “Met a #maptat in the wild today – I’d get one of these but I’d feel I had to point my arm north all the time”
Ant Scott sent this pic from Antananarivo in Madagascar. “Antananarivo Madagascar – can’t tell if the facing tiles correspond to admin boundaries but I like to think they do” For those of you who are not on top of your Madagascan geography here is a screenshot of the regional borders.
Glen Pawelski sent us this pic. I know it is just a map in a frame but the layout, the styling and the font make it a thing of beauty IMHO.
Doug G spotted this. “42N Brewing Asylum Porter Birds eye map of Buffalo State Hospital area.” Strong beer, nice map.
Matthew Edney shared this from his local store. What self respecting map geek is not going to want to taste that beer?
Kaakaapoo sent us this super massive floor map of Leeds “My favourite #MapsInTheWild for @mappery, the map of Leeds filling the main room of Leeds City Museum”. Almost makes me want to visit to Leeds!