Ross McDonald sent us this stunning map made of butterflies “A growing map of the SW Cape made up of butterflies. Each butterfly added supports a child living in an informal settlement
Maps in the Wild
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Michael Terner sent us this medallion map from Southern California … a “medallion map” that was placed on a pedestrian bridge that crosses a small tributary of the San Francisco Bay in San Mateo, CA (where my mother lives). The medallion shows the historic location of Seashell Mounds left by […]
Gary Gale sent us this pic of a map on the pavement in Richmond “Saw this this morning in Richmond. It’s a map of the Thames near Richmond to mark the 50th anniversary of the Richmond Society. It’s been there since 2007 but it’s so understated and part of the […]
Jon Morris sent us these pics of a magnificent Venetian Sofa And any decent Venitian apartment should have nautical-themed decor. One for @MapsintheWild It’s sort of mappy (editor’s discretion) though probably not navigation level.
Contributed by my dog, Wisley, who loves a ball dressed up as a globe. he enjoys gnawing off the countries to get it back to a bare globe, and playing with it in his favourite local park in Redlands.
Paul Hardy sent us this contour map on a t-shirt “I don’t know if this image qualifies – the location is certainly wild, being on the coast of Malta with the island in the background where St Paul was shipwrecked. The map was on the shirt of a fellow rambler […]
The Rubik’s cube was a great toy in the 1980s. Here’s a lesser known version and equally challenging.
Continuing the theme of Map T-Shirts. The nice people at Boundless had this great make your own map t-shirt of Boston activity by their booth at FOSS4G 2017 (which of course was in Boston). Lots of people chilled out while painting their personalised maps. I had a go but since […]
Last year’s FOSS4G EU in Guimaraes had some great map t-shirts including this one. I’m not sure whether this Brio inspired t-shirt can be considered a map but it was a rather good contrast to the one above.
Merryn Henderson drew my attention to a brilliant thread of tweets from Frank Cottrell-Boyce with maps from classic literary fiction. I’m not sure if these are #MapsintheWild but they are an absolute delight so I thought I would share them with you (apologies for the way some tweets in a […]