Fabrice Argounes posted this pic of this blue and white dish from the Edo period. It shows a map of Japan – particularly Honshū Kyūshū Shikoku
Maps in the Wild
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Dave Lovell messaged me with this pic “I wanted to respond to https://mappery.org/wine-bottle/ with ‘a bottle is never enough!’ and the attached pic. “ Seems to me that there is a pattern emerging which links wine and maps, who’d have thought? BTW, if you are interested in finding more about the Cricova winery […]
Neil Ackroyd shared these pics of some amazing shoe designs from Christian Louboutin with maps of Paris (where else?). Before you think that you fancy a pair of these check your wallet, they will cost you about £600!!
Today is the 1st anniversary of our launch of Mappery. We started with Ken’s UK Cheese Map on the 9/9 and since then we have posted over 180 Maps in the Wild. Thanks to all of our contributors for taking time to send us your finds, keep it up. Do […]
I know of no one who is a more avid collector of map tat than my friend Angharad Stone. You name it and she has got with maps on! This map bikini is somewhere in the South Pacific, fortunately Angharad has got the perfect carry on for when she takes […]
Continuing the album cover theme, Mike Dolbow sent me this CD cover of Back Roads and Abandoned Motels by the Jayhawks
Elliot Hartley sent us this giant 3D map of Scotland from his half term holiday travels. “The Great Polish Map of Scotland is a large (50 m x 40 m) three-dimensional, outdoor concrete scale model of Scotland, located in the grounds of the Barony Castle Hotel, outside the village of Eddleston near […]
What could be better than an old map jigsaw? I foolishly bought this stunner thinking it would be fun but the uniformity of colour and micro text made a tough one to do. Here is a pic of the map without the jigsaw lines The map is early 17thC by […]
Matt Finish sent us these pics of his wife’s map suitcases (for ornamental use only). I like the one with them sitting next to the lamp with a map shade. Clearly a family dedicated to map tat, my kind of people 🙂 “Given to my wife – they’re decorative rather […]
Steven Ottens spotted this odd little map in his apartment in Bucharest while at FOSS4G. Let’s not go into the projection, the weird outlines etc or even the not uncommon omission of New Zealand. This map seems to be anticipating the exit of Britain not just from the European Union […]
Maria Arias de Reyna has been on hot form spotting Maps in the Wild while she was in Bucharest for FOSS4G. This one is a coffee map, it’s also the last of the FOSS4G series
Erik Meerbaum sent me this pic of a 3D map of Romania that was in one of the rooms at FOSS4G (of course it’s the Geography Department of the university
I spotted this map at our local Thai restaurant. I thought the pics might be of customers but when I asked one of the stag she told me that they were pics of all three staff. “Are they from all over the world?” I asked, “No, we just stick them […]
Alex Orenstein sent us this pic from FOSS4G in Bucharest “saw this in Bucharest. Curious mixed media map of a plane crash“