Reinder shared these pics of a gig that he saw recently, the band seem to be very into globes and maps. “… on the Parade: a travelling theatrical festival in the Netherlands, 18th of July 2024. Cf https://deparade.nl/programma/stan-vreeken-jorn/. “Pop-music meets theater in a light-hearted and quirky concert. Looking at the mysterious word […]
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Marc-Tobias spotted this van “Seen in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollh%C3%A4ttan Includes a scale in kilometers and proper compass!” That’s the first time I have seen a scale bar on an a map in the wild
Reinder shared this pic of a book cover “Suddenly it occurred to me that the cover of this book by the Dutch writer Jean Pierre Rawie is decorated with a painting by Matthijs Röling, and that he added a globe to this still life.”
Jeremy shared a pic of the recyclable beer glasses at the yNOT festival. Is that a semi-conical projection?
Reinder sent us this interesting map sculpture “I spotted this specimen of street furniture — in fact: my wife did. What you see is the outline of the island Schouwen-Duiveland, part of the Dutch province Zeeland. The white ball is actually on the spot of the town Zierikzee. Very quiet […]
Kate shared this “Neat (and mappy!) Final Jeopardy trivia from the other night: “Early 1900s labels for this beverage brand featured a beaver sitting on a log at the top of a map.” I am wondering whether the “Dry” refers to the taste or Prohibiton
When Erik was in Dubrovnik for a conference he ended up in this bar with colleagues. “With the #CLGE delegates you always end up at a #MapsintheWild bar…”
Pieter is a true map geek. “I wanted to learn the names of the neighbourhoods in #Ghent, so I made me a #puzzle. I added the neighbourhoods in #OpenStreetMap , then made a custom theme in #MapComplete and use the ‘export as PNG’-functuon. The background is a modified stylesheet for […]
Matt Malone spotted this t-shirt in a local thrift shop. “Found a new shirt for my next #GIS conference” I’ve got a feeling that will prompt quite a lot of conversation!
Garrett Speed shared this “This Afghani restaurant in ‘s-Hertogenbosch has a bread holder with a map of Afghanistan as the base”
Via Reinder “This fantastic piece of textile art by Miep van Riessen consists of embroidered names of victims, and is at the same time a quite adequate ‘geographical impression’ of the region where the disaster took place: the Dutch province of Zeeland. “