Ken was traveling home from Japan and spotted these pics while waiting for a flight at Haneda Airpport. I think we can assume that he is a pretty upmarket lounge not basic tourist class! This last one is very subtle but look carefully
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Harry Kuril sent me these pics, he said “Here is a pair of maps I saw at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The titles of the maps are: They show the forced movement of urbanites to rural areas by the Khmer Rouge. They are labelled in […]
And to end the week, a wonder comes from M. Le Cartographe. The Globe of a school in Suresne (France, Hauts-de-Seine) was built by the architects Baudoin and Lodz in 1935. Five meters in diameter, made up of a shell with a thickness of only 6 cm and equipped (at […]
Another African Map in the Wild from Ragnvald. This time, it was the Simba Lounge at the Nairobi International Airport.
Ken sent me this. I can see why it is a map in the wild but I didn’t know what it was meant to be saying. A bit of searching suggests that it is related to The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: “A 1994 Australian roadcomedy film written […]
The simple answer is to find a resaurant that has menus in English as well as Japanese, it’s useful to also know that you are in the right place! Another one from Ken
Ken visited Japan recently for a bit R&R, he couldn’t resist sending us this map-centric menu from a local bar.
Elizabeth saw this in the foyer of a building in SW1. The blurb says: “Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain – A Different Place, 2022 This wall painting is based on a method of cartographic writing that correlates a letter of the alphabet with each of the earth’s 24 time zones. […]
Marc-Tobias sent me this. “Seen randomly at a German hospital. Apparently a German computer brandhttps://www.terra-computers.de/. Looking closely it really is a world map, not a fantasy maps. Theysmoothed the edges it became also unrecognizable.
Reinder spotted this in a Utrecht restaurant “… in restaurant ‘De ontdekking’ [The discovery]” Quite something!
Berl said “We saw these two at the top of Monte Igueldo in Donostia (San Sebastian) in the Basque region of Spain. Apparently Basque bears no relationship to any other language.”