Barend Kobben sent us this ad “An advertisement for “The Whole World on your Plate” in a roadside restaurant along the A6 motorway in France (Burgundy)” The creator could have made an interactive version if they had used Leaflet (waits for the groans)
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Dan Ormsby sent us this impressive pair of Map Tattoos spotted in a pub in Bristol “How dedicated is your love of maps? Is it as much as these two geography students, who I met in a bar in Bristol? These truly are a pair of Maps in the Wild […]
Serryn Eagleson sent us this indigenous map of Australia “I found this chalk drawn map of the indigenous boundaries across Australia in the Melbourne University Student Union Building it is a beautiful interpretation of the AITSIS Map AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia below”
Amanda Murphyao sent us this logo from the side of a truck “Saw this one on a truck yesterday and it always makes me laugh because Illinois is HUGE, Indiana is covered up, and the Upper Peninsula is just… gone. #Mapsinthewild I’ve attached a google map with a sloppy yellow […]
Archie Belaney sent us this pic of a canoe at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin which has a map of Canada on its hull. And why wouldn’t you …?
Mark Safran sent us these pics of a stunning map in the new Rail Park in Philadelphia Would be great if someone could leave a bit more explanation of the map in the comments below.
One friend Tom Smedley who twitters as Army Map Guy sent us these wine filled maps from the Early Mountain Winery I love the chalk shading on the Virginia map, hopefully even Ken will approve of this blackboard work. “Yep- #maps 🗺 and #wine 🍷From macro (Va) to micro (the vineyards and […]
Dave Lovell sent us this pic of the world’s largest map being unveiled in Dubrovnik in October 2007. This map of Dubrovnik-Neretva County is is 11m wide and 6m high, it is made up from 40 1:25k sheets enlarged to a scale of 1:15k. Is that the largest in the […]
People are often saying that “the world is falling apart” but with this jigsaw, that literally is the case. My wife loves a jigsaw and she trawls charity shops for old jigsaws which she then shares with her mates. We always have a jigsaw on the go on our dining […]
The BBC reported that Hundreds of torch bearers have created a huge map of Scotland to mark the start of Edinburgh’s three-day Hogmanay festival.Thousands of people snaked their way down the Royal Mile and past the Scottish Parliament to Holyrood Park where the outline of Scotland was lit up.At least […]
This is a beauty (and a first timer for me) – a road sign map at the side of a motorway (well the Mexican equivalent) on the road from Mexico City to Oaxaca. Much more fun than our boring green or blue schematics. That’s my last post of 2018 and […]
We stumbled on an exhibition on Day of the Dead in Oaxaca which included a whole room of Haitian artefacts. This map might not be anything special but I like the juxtaposition with the boat and particularly the guy at the front with the umbrella.
This is a reproduction of a 19th C map used to resolve a land ownership dispute, we found it in the Anthropological Museum (spectacular) in Mexico City. “The original canvas was used by the people in 1892 as part of a lawsuit over lands. Until 1933 it was in the […]
So Ken and I were considering what should be our Xmas special (we had a few candidates for the prize) but we agreed without hesitation that this Xmas tree at Ordnance Survey’s head office in Southampton was the one. It is made of maps and even the gifts underneath are […]