Roger Payne sent us this Map Cow “After your request for maps in the wild at Geomob here’s one. It’s an old photo from 2000 I had to scan from a print. It was part of Cow Parade https://www.cowparade.com/our-story/ in New York, and happened to be the first Cow I came across, found […]
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Alex Wrottesley of Geovation sent me this beautiful 15th century world map that he came across in Florence Fra’ Mauro, a Camaldolese monk, was active in Venice toward the mid-fifteenth century. His world map depicts the image of the Earth prevailing before the discovery of America. Based on literary texts […]
Ross McDonald sent us this stunning map made of butterflies “A growing map of the SW Cape made up of butterflies. Each butterfly added supports a child living in an informal settlement
Michael Terner sent us this medallion map from Southern California … a “medallion map” that was placed on a pedestrian bridge that crosses a small tributary of the San Francisco Bay in San Mateo, CA (where my mother lives). The medallion shows the historic location of Seashell Mounds left by […]
Gary Gale sent us this pic of a map on the pavement in Richmond “Saw this this morning in Richmond. It’s a map of the Thames near Richmond to mark the 50th anniversary of the Richmond Society. It’s been there since 2007 but it’s so understated and part of the […]
Jon Morris sent us these pics of a magnificent Venetian Sofa And any decent Venitian apartment should have nautical-themed decor. One for @MapsintheWild It’s sort of mappy (editor’s discretion) though probably not navigation level.
Paul Hardy sent us this contour map on a t-shirt “I don’t know if this image qualifies – the location is certainly wild, being on the coast of Malta with the island in the background where St Paul was shipwrecked. The map was on the shirt of a fellow rambler […]
Continuing the theme of Map T-Shirts. The nice people at Boundless had this great make your own map t-shirt of Boston activity by their booth at FOSS4G 2017 (which of course was in Boston). Lots of people chilled out while painting their personalised maps. I had a go but since […]
Last year’s FOSS4G EU in Guimaraes had some great map t-shirts including this one. I’m not sure whether this Brio inspired t-shirt can be considered a map but it was a rather good contrast to the one above.
Merryn Henderson drew my attention to a brilliant thread of tweets from Frank Cottrell-Boyce with maps from classic literary fiction. I’m not sure if these are #MapsintheWild but they are an absolute delight so I thought I would share them with you (apologies for the way some tweets in a […]
Seen on the London Underground in December, this poster sits next to the regular Tube Map that we all know. It shows Harry Beck’s original “diagram” of 1933 and a preceding “geographic” map from 1908. May not be quirky or wild but hey! I edit this thing so I get […]
Stanfords has been a ‘go to’ place for map lovers for over a century. Founded by Edward Stanford in 1853, they have been located in their current Long Acre premises since 1901. They are about to move to a new location in Mercer Walk and while clearing stock out of […]
Francisco Urbina sent us this magnificent street plan on a hoarding in Sydney ‘This was on a construction hoarding down on Sussex Street in Sydney and is a Fire Underwriters’ Association of NSW, Plan of Sydney 1917 – 1939 from the City of Sydney Archives It includes the Esri Australia building (you […]
Erik Meerburg of Geo Academie sent us this picture of the ceiling at Delft Station Hi Steven and Ken,It is a strange world… nobody showed you the ceiling at the Delft train station yet? It is a huge map of the city of Delft in the 19th century. And, of course, […]