Kris from the Boston Map Society found this map whilst researching for a book on Drink Maps in Victorian Britain. I knew this book of evidence taken in 1897 for the Royal Commission on Licensing Laws would be a goldmine of information for my research on Drink Maps, but I […]
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Barry Ruderman form Raremaps.com posted this map in the wild on one of the glass houses at Kew Gardens during the Orchid Festival last year. The Wallace Line is a boundary line drawn by Alfred Wallace an English biologist in 1859 that separates the biogeographical regions of Australia and Southeast […]
A chart of Falmouth Harbour (Massachusetts that is) making a decent lampshade here. Original post: Greg Fiske
Whoever designed this ‘map’ of a store layout really hadn’t grasped the basics of perspective, unless the floor slopes massively uphill to those fitting rooms, or the shop gradually tapers to a narrower length at the grocery end. Original post: Brian Kingery
Not sure whether the idea behind this is that you stick a pin in it to show where your heart is? Original post: Lauren Winkler
Ken spotted this globe used as the stone of an avocado in Tancitaro – one of the worlds largest avocado producers.
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
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 […]
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.
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 […]
