Maps in the Wild

Our regular contributor Army Maps Guy sent us this neat cloth map of downtown Richmond. I like monochrome, this is simple and a bit grungy. More like this please

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

A classic ‘you are here’ map, Stadtpark Vienna

Just a wireframe globe but these sort of ads always try to use globes as a way to express their global reach.

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 […]

There’s nothing quite as bad in airline cartography as this effort.

In the shape of Italy. Didn’t try the beer.

Customers are encouraged to share their location in a clothing store.

Globes on the shelves. Unfortunately not for sale.

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

Shipyard Brewing, so of course there’s a hydrographic chart on the can.

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 […]