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Any Japanese speakers out there who can enlighten us on to what this map is all about, please post a comment! Originally spotted by Timothy Morrissey on a calendar, who thinks it is some type of foliage map.

Mark Safran tweeted some great pictures a few years ago of this metal mural of the San Antonio river watershed. it must have taken a considerable amount of work to produce this. I’m not sure whether you are aloud to touch it, but it certainly looks very tactile!

Maps often appear on bottles of wine. We know that at Mappery, because the team have conducted extensive amounts of primary research on the topic. Ken spotted this one on a bottle from the Napa Valley. The simplicity of the contours and the river against dark bottle have such an […]

Benjamin Hennig posted some beautiful pictures on Twitter of an amazing relief map of Iceland in Reykjavik City Hall.

Shannon Gonzales 🐙(she/her) tweeted pictures of this flowery map of the USA at a California state fair.

I expect Ken got some odd looks as he went around photographing other passengers’ luggage.

Professional cartographers see maps everywhere. Ken can’t even get through a bowl of caramel cluster cornflakes without spotting Antarctica in it. Source: Kenneth Field

Technically reading a map in the wild, isn’t really a “Map in the Wild”. Once in a while though we’re prepared to break our own self imposed strict editorial guidelines and this is such a great photo in such a beautiful location at Mount Whitney, that we’ll let this one […]

Paul Smith might be great at cutting cloth, but have still got a bit to learn about cutting holes in maps. Just a little further south west and it would have fit beautifully in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Sri Lanka, without taking out half of South East Asia. […]

Love the look of this one from the Harvard Map Collection! Credit: HarvardMapCollection

A somewhat abstract map being used in some sort of fantasy boardgame! Credit: Foot Of The Mountain Adventures

Another great spot from Barry Ruderman at Raremaps.com in Budapest.

“This is not just any map in the wild. This is a juicy M&S currency exchange desk map in the wild …” Reference likely to be completely lost for anybody outside the UK. Original credit: Tony Timlin

Stefan let us know this is the design of a wall inside of the museum of wrecks and fishing in Cuxhaven, Germany. Credit: Stefan Kaup

Before you venture into the wilderness, you should always study the map, as this Pronghorn in Sheldon reminds us. Credit: Jami