Matt Simpson sent us this pic of a magnificent ceramic tile map depicting the extents of the North Eastern Railway line which he spotted at Pickering Station. Apparently there are also examples at York, Whitby and Tynemouth – can anyone send pics?
This weekend Ken Field and John Nelson came to us for lunch before their appearances at the ESRI UK user group event this week. We went for a walk through Highgate Woods, jabbering about maps as we strolled. At some point I mentioned Ken’s recent 3D globe of riding sea […]
Bex Alexis-Martin shared this tiled map of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway that she spotted at Manchester Picadilly station A beautiful map at Victoria station, Manchester on my way to talk at @NorthumbriaUni I’ve got a hunch that there may be a few more of these map tiles waiting to […]
Merryn Henderson sent us this stylish advert for Kimbo coffee It’s an ad for a brand of coffee, at Bologna airport. Literally? “It all starts with ‘Kimbo’. All of the roads bring us the aromas…” but if we asked an ad agency to Anglicise it, we’d get something like: “Every […]
Alison Davis-Holland shared this impressive map of building evictions Eviction filings by state at the #NationBuildingMuseum Evicted exhibit at #FedGIS Cool viz but I want to see it standardized by population! I’m sure there is a corny play on words around MapBox here but I’ll leave that to you lot […]
Alex Wrottesley sent us these pics of a butterfly made out of an Ordnance Survey 1:50k map sheet. “Hola StevenSome lovely mappy artworks to take your mind off the football. Spotted in the wild in the Royal Lancaster Hotel – and OS to boot! Alex I am a bit puzzled by the […]