Maps in the Wild

Atanas Enchev shared this with us – standing on the junction of three states. This is the automatically generated AltText which seems pretty impressive to me (Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B) “The image shows a stone marker with the inscription “PENN” on the left and “N.J.” […]

“A Girl on the Net” shared this amazing piece of needle work, the London Underground map in cross-stitch, complete with the key to lines and interchanges. She commented “Nerds may note that:a) the Vicky line is unfinished (for various reasons, it was PERFECT timing for her to give this to […]

A beauty from Dean, can you work out the location?

Joe Davis shared this pic from the Brecon Beacons National Park visitor centre

Robert Simmon shared this pic of a road sign approaching El Chalten in Argentina. It reminds me of the second post on the site when Ken and I had the idea to start Mappery.

Cartonaut spotted this map of San Francisco peninsula for exclusivefresh.com on the back of their fish delivery van. A great pic at 60mph!

Doug Greenfield said “Bottle of red cuz dry January is over thank goodness”. Who are we to disagree?

A beautiful simple map spotted by Wanmei L in downtown LA

Robert Simmon shared these from the Museo de Arte Precolombino in Santiago, Chile. I love the way the map wraps around the corner of the gallery. Timeline of pre-Colombian cultures mounted on the wall of the Museo de Arte Precolombino. The oldest cultures are dated to 14,000 BC.

Doug spotted this map design on the exit of an office building in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Joe Davis spotted this massive map display in Lyon

Who can resist a bit of map tat? Certainly not Wanmei L.

A little bit of fun for you. We have teamed up with our friends at TripGeo who make a whole load of fun map and travel related games including my favourite Scrambled Maps (Warning – you may get hooked) to create a new puzzle for you Scrambled Maps in the […]

Andrew Tyrrell could have said “Here is one I made before” (readers of a certain age will get the cultural reference) but he was a bit more loquacious and said “Driving to #Queenstown to run my first half marathon tomorrow, and stopped off along Lake Cromwell to admire one of […]

Jeff Allen shared htis. No idea what or where the building is but this is spectacular. A little bit of image search and I discovered that this is Highland Hall on the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus, still spectacular.