Maps in the Wild

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 […]

Fran Raga shared this cute globe that he found abandoned in the street which is now keeping Tintin company. “I found this going back home, it was alone and frightened, so I took it home, I washed it and I looked for him an adventure friend

Abi Page shared this picture of an OldCountryBot inspired by the Small Robots site “My very own hand drawn OldCountryBot for the office wall – thanks @smolrobots !! “

Tom Armitage drew our attention to this amazing collection of Maps in the Wild by young illustrators at the Edinburgh College of Art “Some wonderful and wonderfully weird map art from the @eca_edinburgh on show @RedDoor_Gallery. #Edinburgh and #maps have a long history together, great to see this continue in […]

Mark Saffran shared this Instagram (from esri?) Those nails must have taken some time to paint. I wonder if they were a special effort for the esri user conference which will be running around now? This is dedication to mappery beyond the norm.

David Overton has an understandable interest in fabric maps since that is what his business Splashmaps make. He was recently at the University Library in Cambridge viewing their maps collection when he stumbled on these incredible silk European nautical maps complete with instructions on how to build your own raft […]

Gregory Marler spotted these maps above the urinals while … “I just spotted the Mappery website. What a great and understandable idea. I attach and image of a map in a toilet. It’s always exciting to take a break from a mapping event and find a map. If I find […]

Thanks to Ross McDonald for pointing us at this Australian puddle spotted in Somalia by a member of the Australian Defence Force. The image originally appeared on the ADF web site (see here on the WayBackMachine) and more recently on GeoLounge who said Cartocacoethes was a term first coined by […]

David Moed sent us this full on world map shirt. I thought I liked a bit of map clothing but this one may be too much even for me. Look how GB gets the maximum visibility spot, half of Africa and Latin America are below the belt line.

Neil Ackroyd stumbled on this innovative use of Ordnance Survey mapping in his Barbican hotel room. “Now that’s a bathroom floor – won’t throw my wet towel on this beauty” There is something especially delightful about being able to step over the Thames when you get out of shower.