Matthew Edney sent us this, he said “My father in law at the Arctic Circle, in Dalton, Alaska, the dot for the location is right by his head” Pretty Cool
This portrait of Johannes Kepler was spotted by Reinder at the Collegium Maius in Cracow. Don’t you love the way old paintings so often have a globe or a map in the background (presumably a symbol of status)?
Have you heard of an alidade? I hadn’t until Walter Schwartz sent me these pics. He said “Behold the ingenious alidade, a surveying instrument here used as a fire finder. This one is displayed at the Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor, Maine. Forest rangers used these atop fire towers to report the distance […]
Elizabeth shared this with us. She said “Would you call this a map? It is certainly a navigation aid.” I am not sure how you would describe this but it certainly is an interesting piece.
Rollo spotted this Mapsinthewild in a late 1940’s nuclear bunker operations room in York with the ‘most advanced map of the time’ laid out. This facility was designed to monitor impact and fall out. It would support a team of 60 for 30 days underground…. apparently design was out dated […]
Reinder spotted this on Spuistraat, Amsterdam. “Now it is a branch of Magic Mushroom – but in 1639 a globe was bricked into the facade.” I had to check that Magic Mushroom was what I thought it was, and it was! No endorsement but I guess your maps get super […]
Reinder said “These images show a 3D plan in bronze or something, from the park ‘Sanssouci’ in Potsdam. A beautiful place with an unrivaled amount of quite impressive palaces. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanssouci_Park“