Gregory said “The contour letters in Cape Town – I don’t know if that counts as a map, but each one was a specific local mountain” Yes, that definitely counts! Neat use of contours?
Maps in the Wild
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You have to go on a vineyard tasting experience if you are visiting South Africa and you need a map to help you find your way!
Last year Gregory Marler (aka on social media as Living with Dragons) went to South Africa, he found lots of mappy stuff to share with us, so good that I thought `I would make a short series of his pics. This one is a tactile map at the top of […]
Lose Hill is situated in the Peak District on a nice trail from Mam Tor. This hill offers a 360-degree landscape.
Reinder spotted this book cover, the title is “The Signal to Surrender”. Reinder explained “It’s not a perfect copy – but still attractive though, according to me. The design is by none other than the great Dutch graphic artist Dick Bruna. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Bruna Personally I think the book title is a little […]
Our followers will recognise the view from a few days ago with my Hip Flask. Now here is the OS Picnic Blanket standing on a proper map in the wilderness of the Peak District.
A nice coffee table with the usual missing NZ and MZ, but Central America has vanished; nonetheless, the British Isles are gone. I will not buy it.
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!
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.” Eli subsequently chipped in and said “upon my arrival at that location, I did […]