Who knew there was a site that just focussed on Austrian maps “from moderately interesting to plain terrible”? That’s AustrianMaps. It was their first birthday a few weeks back and they celebrated with this crummy looking cake. A belated happy birthday Austrian Maps!
Reinder Storm shared this pic of the flyleaf of the Atlas of Britain (Oxford, 1963). I had to look a couple of times.
Yesterday the open source and open data geo communities were devastated by the tragic news of the passing of our friend and colleague Malena Libman. There was an outpouring of grief and celebration of her zest for life, humour, warmth and contribution to open geo. Jody Garnett posted this picture […]
Villers Bretonneux https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/93000/Villers-Bretonneux%20Memorial map at the top and wreaths at the bottom on Anzac Day. Today is Anzac Day – 25th April marks the anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand soldiers – the Anzacs – on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915.
We have seen a lot of maps as art since we started Mappery, but when Arnaud showed me these maps by Ed Fairburn I was blown away. I reached out to Ed who gave me some great images and a little explanation of the images. “‘Edgware’ (above) utilises the road […]
Bharat Mata Mandir (meaning “Mother India Temple”) is located on the India. Instead of traditional statues of gods and goddesses, this temple has a huge map of undivided India carved in marble. Images from Walter Schwartz, taken in 2016 Link for more information on this white marble map: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/varanasis-bharat-mata-mandir-features-map-of-undivided-india-as-a-prime-deity/amp_articleshow/65624266.cm