Category: Maps in the Wild

Jonathan Neufeld sent us the magnificent street map of Barcelona which is painted on the pavement near the Arc de Triomf.

This is a pretty large scale map!

This compass (or is it a globe?) is in the entrance to Jaffa port. It shows the distance and direction of a series of cities from Tel Aviv/Jaffa. You stand looking out at the sea and can see many of the cities surrounding you. The top pic is taken facing the sea and the one below was taken from the other direction because it does a bit more detail.

I like the way that the city markers run off the edge of the map and are embedded in the tiles surrounding it. The last two are Gibraltar and Tangiers.

From a vineyard near Cape Town.

Raf sent us this pic of the Tennessee Map Plaza in Nashville

And another candidate for #mapsinthewild @StevenFeldman the giant state map of Tennessee, in Nashville (had to take a screenshot of Gmaps, no ground picture good enough) 

I think this is a fair candidate for waiving my principle of “no screenshots” but if anyone has a drone or fancies hanging from the bottom of a helicopter to get a closer up shot then do let me know.

Seat back maps on aircraft. here showing the Boeing 777 landing at LAX. Overview map on the screen in the background.

The use of the shape of the River Thames in advertising is not new but it always looks classy. Here, on a poster on the London Underground (LHR)

Luis Velasquez sent us this pic of a very cool globe balloon outside a shop in Oxford which really is called Frog Orange Party

@MapsintheWild I found the prop for any future party!

there’s been several iterations of this above ground map, on display inside Piccadilly line carriages. because not everything about using the Underground is under ground!

Home of the one and only Nottingham Forest (You reds!!!). Love the use of the club logo as a ‘you are here’ marker.

Stan McShinsky sent us this pic of his Map Chairs

I decided to reupholster some chairs in my office with aerial imagery. I think it turned out great.
I just stumbled upon mappery.org and love it.

Well we were pretty chuffed (BritTalk for pleased) that he loves Mappery and we liked his chairs so we asked how he found the fabric in case any of our readers wanted to make there own Map Chair.

I uploaded the imagery to https://www.spoonflower.com/welcome and had it printed on the Eco Canvas fabric. They printed it and sent it to me really fast. There were several sites that offer that service and I ordered samples from them. SpoonFlower was the best quality and clarity for what I wanted. 

So now we will sit back and wait for more Map Chair pics and also a referral bonus from SpoonFlower 🙂