Reinder sent this pic of a shop window in Mafra in Portugal. He said there is quite a lot of Mappery in there. I found 6 and maybe 7, how about you?
Maps in the Wild
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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
Spotted by Reinder ” in a street with many shops in The Hague, it’s Wednesday throwing away cardboard boxes day”
Reinder spotted this selection of maps for sale in a souvenir shop at Wawel Castle, Cracow, Poland. They like a map there!
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 […]
Reeinder said “At the Amsterdam bookstore Scheltema, one can put a post-it on a kind of world map display, to mark the spot where one has been.”
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.
I spotted this globe at a wedding venue recently. I’ve no idea who the two figures aren’t? Feel free to make suggestions
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 […]
The Geomob speaker, known as the Geospatial Index, shared this picture from a Battersea Park playground in London.
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“