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 […]
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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.
Doug shared this – Surficial geology of Maine #MapsintheWild @ Watershed Art Center Newcastle, Maine If like me you thought Surficial Geology was a typo, read and learn
Eric said “Today I visited the municipality of Pijnacker-Nootdorp. There’s a beautiful #mapsinthewild carpet in the Council Chamber (with even half of Delft on it)”
From Reinder “… the title means something like ‘Around the globe’. Needs no further explanation I presume” – nope!
Simon Wrigley found this beautiful window near the entrance to Lambeth Palace. Rounding the corner, He found it was not one window but two – one with each hemisphere of the globe. It looks like a Nicolosi Globular Projection, which is a Double hemispheric polyconic map projection
Barry shared this pic of a globe style stress ball, I think it may originate from a proprietary software vendor
Reinder shared this pic of a shop window display “Cartographically inspired shop window of the 2nd hand bookshop Colette in The Hague”
Reinder sent these pics from the second hand book market in Deventer “… at the largest 2nd hand book market of Europe (August 4, 2024) of course there was also some cartographical material for sale.”
Doug shared this old railway map, you might think this an old relic that he spotted but – no! This 150 year old railway line closed in 1962 and was reopened a few years later, you can read more here and you can still travel on the line.
Another one from Reinder Storm. “Don’t remember whether I sent this before, don’t remember where and when I saw this one – but I do know that I like it …” I am sure the tea will have an international flavour in this pot.
Another pic from Krista Mott’s roadtrip. “At Mount Rainier National Park there was one of the felled Douglas-fir, that began to grow in 1293, depicts a map of time” I am expecting a bit of “That’s not a map!” feedback but it sure looks like one to me and it […]