Maps in the Wild

Caught this map mug on BBC World News. Casually just sat on the desk, located at Broadcasting House in London.

Michael Terner  sent me this pic of an earring which he tells me is based on part of the street network in Portland Here’s a map of the Portland, Oregon street grid, including it’s numerous Willamette River crossings. The map is found on the earring of one of my 22 […]

I think Charles Kennelly is getting over eager, I can’t see a map here but he says “Accidental map of the world, I can’t remember how it ended up in my photo collection”

My kind of restaurant when you’re greeted by a map. Food is superb too!!!

Thanks to the lady who let me take a pic of her superb medal for completing the 2018 Columbus marathon in Ohio, USA. I have to hand it to the Americans, they love using the shapes of their states in anything and everything. Here, the shape of Ohio. What else?!

Yet another pic from (as of now) our most prolific contributor Charles Kennelly. “Map outside office in Kamakura Japan, my best guess is that it depicts underwater cable routes. I love the projection and the water caused discolouration that results from the projection.” I look forward to the discussion between […]

A magnificent laser-cut wooden map of the street network of Norfolk VA hanging in a small elevator lobby in the Marriott Waterside hotel. It measures about 4 ft by 3ft and the depth of the wood casts some great shadows from the lobby light above. The detail is impressive when […]

While we were in Mexico City we went to the Secretaría de Educación Público to see the amazing collection of murals by Diego Rivera. As we were leaving we stumbled on this massive mural map of Latin America The scale of this stunning mural needs a longer range shot. If you […]

A range of images of the use of maps at John Glenn Columbus airport. The above a large compass rose inlay with the state map at its centre in the arrivals hall. Below, a street network formed from pieces of coloured laminate on a wall adorning the wall of a […]

Charles Kennelly sent us this impressive relief map from the Central Siberian Geology Museum. “Incredible relief map of Russia, in one of the best geology museums I have been to. I especially liked the harsh clipping that leave water bodies pouring into the outside world. If you ever find yourself near […]

In the terminal building. Fills a wall. That’s all.

I met Anna Weber at the Danish GeoForum’s KortDage event. She had asked delegates to bring with them a soil sample from their home region, she had over 40 samples from Denmark and as she was keen to tell me one from Sweden. She then made this Earth Map of […]

A recent visit by Mark Iliffe and I to the Brewdog USA brewery found it to be teeming with maps. While we were still capable of operating a camera here’s some select pics. The map above is by Craig Fischer, Brewdog’s resident artist and simply shows the location of each […]

Today is GIS Day, so you get an extra bonus map in the wild thanks to Ross McDonald of Angus Council. Apparently they celebrated GIS Day with this scrumptious map cake. For those not in the UK, the reference to Shetland in a box may be confusing. Recently the Scottish […]