Category: Maps in the Wild

Angharad Stone shared this beautiful map book cover from her trip to Manchester

Ivan Sanchez pointed me to this map of the meridian of the Treaty of Tordesillas. The feet belong to Jose Gomez Castan and his friend Jordana standing either side of the meridian line.

Our friends at UK GovCamp sent us these pics of the decoration on their room at the Premier Inn Hun near the event and then John Ivers of CDR sent me some slightly better pics. This neighbourhoods map is in the same style as the one from Edinburgh that one of the FOSS4GUK delegates sent us a while back.

We need to gather a complete set of these Hub maps

Angharad Stone was in Manchester for the day and I challenged her to send me a Map in the Wild. So here she is at Victoria Station with this magnificent railway map

This car parts dealer has a simple outline map of the US which could almost be an election map

Reinder Storm shared this Dutch pack of Italian sea salt

“A package with ‘Italian’ sea salt. Seen at the counter of a coffee bar at the central railway station, The Hague, The Netherlands”

David Henderson of Ordnance Survey shared this magnificent map table from a coffee place in Edinburgh. It’s a beautiful map but I am not sure the MD (or Chief Geospatial Officer as he is now known) should be sharing a risqué map with Shetland in a box, the cafe might get referred to the Scottish Government.

I spotted this mappish representation of the Piccadilly Line on the London Underground.

It’s a new version of an old favourite, here is a 2013 version by Lulu Pinney for Eye Magazine

I think there are some earlier versions on the same theme. If you know of any do post a link in the comments.

Paul Hardy sent us this picture of a sundial at Hatfield House.

“If you are short of maps in the wild, attached is an interesting map not far from where I live. It is a big sundial, installed in 2011 at Hatfield House to mark their 400^th anniversary. I assume it is in Gnomic projection. The map on it is centred on Hatfield which is 20 miles north of London, UK. It’s hard to read until you realise  the land is white and the sea black!

The Old Palace at Hatfield house was where Queen Elizabeth lived as a child. The 1611 house  has been the home of the Cecil family continuously ever since!  The house interior is splendid and Jacobean.”

Thanks Paul

Liam Mason shared this pic of his dog and a street map on the ground at Parc de la Ciutadella, Barcelona

This would make a great caption competition