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Another Japanese map from Anton Thomas. Did anyone attending ICC get to do some work or attend sessions? When in new countries it’s very fun seeing all the ways they use their unique shape. Japan has a beautiful, elegant coastline, and it can double as a rooster just in case. […]

Michael Terner sent me this great Map in the Wild from Madrid. It is sited at the centre of the Spanish national road network, when you are driving towards Madrid and you see a road marker measuring the distance to Madrid they are all measuring to this point. In London […]

Bojan Savric spotted these map tiles (get the pun?) in Japan whilst there for ICC2019 Probably the first ever Mercator titles at Yune-no-Ohashi bridge. #ICC2019Tokyo

Quite a few of our friends made the journey to Tokyo for ICC2019 (International Cartographic Conference) and of course they were on the lookout for Maps in the Wild. Over the next few weeks we will be sharing some of their finds. Anton Thomas is a fantastic map maker who […]

This superb map graffiti came to us from Topi Tjukanov via Mark Safran, thanks to both of you. “I always admire this graffiti when I walk past it. Today with the sun shining it looked exceptionally good. It’s located in Suvilahti, Helsinki and the graffiti was created by Finnish graffiti […]

Jorge Sanz sent me this minimalistic beer/coffee mat design from the Federal Cafe in Seville. Apparently this drink is something called a Ginger Beer Spider (ginger beer and vanilla ice cream = yuck!) but the mat looks great

Barry Rowlingson spotted this map of coffee varieties at his local Sainsbury store in Lancaster. It is a graphic rather than made from actual beans but it must have been fun putting it together. Note to self: A cool project to make a map from coffee beans riffing off of […]

Fran Raga shared this cute globe that he found abandoned in the street which is now keeping Tintin company. “I found this going back home, it was alone and frightened, so I took it home, I washed it and I looked for him an adventure friend

Abi Page shared this picture of an OldCountryBot inspired by the Small Robots site “My very own hand drawn OldCountryBot for the office wall – thanks @smolrobots !! “

Tom Armitage drew our attention to this amazing collection of Maps in the Wild by young illustrators at the Edinburgh College of Art “Some wonderful and wonderfully weird map art from the @eca_edinburgh on show @RedDoor_Gallery. #Edinburgh and #maps have a long history together, great to see this continue in […]

Mark Saffran shared this Instagram (from esri?) Those nails must have taken some time to paint. I wonder if they were a special effort for the esri user conference which will be running around now? This is dedication to mappery beyond the norm.

David Overton has an understandable interest in fabric maps since that is what his business Splashmaps make. He was recently at the University Library in Cambridge viewing their maps collection when he stumbled on these incredible silk European nautical maps complete with instructions on how to build your own raft […]

Gregory Marler spotted these maps above the urinals while … “I just spotted the Mappery website. What a great and understandable idea. I attach and image of a map in a toilet. It’s always exciting to take a break from a mapping event and find a map. If I find […]

Thanks to Ross McDonald for pointing us at this Australian puddle spotted in Somalia by a member of the Australian Defence Force. The image originally appeared on the ADF web site (see here on the WayBackMachine) and more recently on GeoLounge who said Cartocacoethes was a term first coined by […]

David Moed sent us this full on world map shirt. I thought I liked a bit of map clothing but this one may be too much even for me. Look how GB gets the maximum visibility spot, half of Africa and Latin America are below the belt line.