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 […]
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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. “
Reinder shared this “On the 1st of February 1953 a disastrous flood occurred in the southwest of The Netherlands. More than 1800 people lost their lives and an entire infrastructure was devastated. This is known as the Watersnood, and it is the topic of the Watersnoodmuseum in Ouwerkerk in the […]
Reinder spotted these globes in the window of a gift shop in Lyon. I liked the pic because of the reflection of the opposite shop “Scotch and Soda” even though I drink mine neat. Arnaud liked it because he grew up in Lyon and new the area well. A map […]
Darrell Fuhriman sent me these pics from the Salt Pub in Ilwaco, Washington. “They decorated with old nautical charts, including a lamp shade and wallpaper on the stairs and entryway. “ The stairs reference a quote by author Isak Dinesen. “The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or […]
Reinder took this pic in a neighbourhood orchard “. along the river Saône in Lyon, named after a local heroine Mere Guy” “In the 2nd arrondissement, the orchard created at Place Général Delfosse was named in honor of Mere Guy. A pioneer of the Meres de Lyon, she opened her […]