Maps in the Wild

Just a mug. Guessing for coffee as they don’t drink tea out these parts.

Seen on the London Underground in December, this poster sits next to the regular Tube Map that we all know. It shows Harry Beck’s original “diagram” of 1933 and a preceding “geographic” map from 1908. May not be quirky or wild but hey! I edit this thing so I get […]

Stanfords has been a ‘go to’ place for map lovers for over a century. Founded by Edward Stanford in 1853, they have been located in their current Long Acre premises since 1901. They are about to move to a new location in Mercer Walk and while clearing stock out of […]

Artsy world map in the American Airlines lounge at Dallas Fort Worth. If you look hard enough it’s a kind of distorted Mercator projection – very odd. Don’t look too hard though, just head to the bar.

Stopper in a bottle of wine. Often a pointless object – who leaves wine unfinished?

Francisco Urbina sent us this magnificent street plan on a hoarding in  Sydney ‘This was on a construction hoarding down on Sussex Street in Sydney and is a Fire Underwriters’ Association of NSW, Plan of Sydney 1917 – 1939 from the City of Sydney Archives It includes the Esri Australia building (you […]

Erik Meerburg of Geo Academie sent us this picture of the ceiling at Delft Station Hi Steven and Ken,It is a strange world… nobody showed you the ceiling at the Delft train station yet? It is a huge map of the city of Delft in the 19th century. And, of course, […]

Warren Davison (he is @WarrenDZ) sent us this globe showing a frozen North American map from Ontario “North America is in the midst of an ice age in this concrete globe with topographic relief It’s outside a local reclaimed materials outfit in the Waterloo, Ontario. Would have been salvaged from a […]

Barend Kobben sent us this ad “An advertisement for “The Whole World on your Plate” in a roadside restaurant along the A6 motorway in France (Burgundy)” The creator could have made an interactive version if they had used Leaflet (waits for the groans)

Mark Safran sent us this pic from the lobby of the Oakland Marriott hotel.  

Dan Ormsby sent us this impressive pair of Map Tattoos spotted in a pub in Bristol “How dedicated is your love of maps?  Is it as much as these two geography students, who I met in a bar in Bristol?  These truly are a pair of Maps in the Wild […]

Serryn Eagleson sent us this indigenous map of Australia “I found this chalk drawn map of the indigenous boundaries across Australia in the Melbourne University Student Union Building it is a beautiful interpretation of the AITSIS Map AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia below”

Amanda Murphyao sent us this logo from the side of a truck “Saw this one on a truck yesterday and it always makes me laugh because Illinois is HUGE, Indiana is covered up, and the Upper Peninsula is just… gone. #Mapsinthewild I’ve attached a google map with a sloppy yellow […]

Archie Belaney sent us this pic of a canoe at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin which has a map of Canada on its hull. And why wouldn’t you …?

Mark Safran sent us these pics of a stunning map in the new Rail Park in Philadelphia Would be great if someone could leave a bit more explanation of the map in the comments below.