Maps in the Wild

Our friend and top contributor, Reinder, sent us this. He said “. on a map of Belgium (in French) from 1965 … – isn’t it a beauty?” The answer is yes, beautiful, just beautiful! I don’t know what it is about this design that makes it feel so good.

These amazing globe sculptural works were spotted by Reinder near the AFAS theatre in Leusden. He described them to me as “quite remarkable – and gigantic!” I can only agree, awesome. The scale of these things is just amazing!

The window marks the location of the Grafton Mall in Cambridge

David Sherrren sent me this pic of the Strand Mural Map “Attached is the Strand Map Mural, named after the junction it faces in Southsea, Hampshire. In 2020 its creator, Mark Lewis, asked Guinness World Records to recognise this depiction of Portsmouth as the world’s only ever-changing mural. Business premises […]

I am very curious about the projection used, but it’s still a nice map for an Easter Egg hunt in London. This one was visible at Farringdon, London.

Atanas Entchev shared this with us “150 North Riverside Plaza, Chicago. This skyscraper features a 400-foot-tall map of the Chicago River on its exterior, with a red rectangle indicating the building’s own location along the river.” I’m wondering if there is a taller map than that? Pretty meta that the […]

Another finding in a gallery in Cambridge, from the artist The Real Hackney Dave

Ken discovered these map adorned beer cans and he had to tackle some pics before he opened one.

Marc Prioleau and Silas Toms hosted the first Geomob San Francisco event on 15th April. Silas decided to get in the geo-mood with this very mappy outfit. That is some outfit!

My hip flask is visiting the Peak District. This might be the beginning of a Series. NB: We are in the UK with amazing whiskies, but the content is a Rum Agricole from Guadeloupe.

Ken spotted this van with custom contour decorations while on the road

Reinder sent me this “… at Bever’s: a local shop in The Hague where you can buy stuff for trekking, walking and other forms of leisure and active outdoor life. Looked really nice. “ I’m guessing that Bever’s is the Den Haag equivalent of Stanfords

In the Ponta Delgado museum they had these really old navigation charts

Parque Ribeira dos Caldeiroes is a nature reserve in the north-west corner of San Miguel, Azores centred around an impressive river and waterfall. Thought I would include a pic of me and Toby by the waterfall because …

There was a small exhibition about the Azores at the Bank of Portugal branch in Ponta Delgada. This lovely old map was in a display case with a model galleon, here is a better pic We also drooled over this 19C map of Terceira