Barry shared this, he said “Ticket to Ride UK+Ireland game map. With enough resources you can even run a transatlantic boat service…”
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Manny Ownoh shared this pic of a telephone street cabinet covered in a stylised map of Rathlin Island, Co Antrim.
It never ceases to make me smile at how many bottles of wine or beeer end up here as maps in the wild. This ones comes via our friend Raf in Barcelona. “Terra Seca is a red wine from Terra del Priorat cellar, made with garnatxa negra and carinyena, in […]
Yves van Goethem shared this a while ago. “I love @openstreetmap. I have heavily relied on it for all my bike trips & long travels, I have modestly contributed to it over the years & I have used tons of apps for navigation, layers, drinking water, etc. Never would I […]
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
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 […]
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.