This is day 2 of the 12 Mappy Days of Christmas – there’s no seasoãl link but it is a delicious treat for any map lover at this time of year. Don Meltz shared this pic which truly is worthy of a caption competition and a prize.
I thought I would try to find a post-a-day for the 12 Mappy Days of Xmas. Here is Day 1. Dennis Bauszus sent us this picture of his mappy bow tie from the Geolytix xmas party. What more could you ask for on Xmas day, a silly hat, over the […]
Raf sent me this pic of a discarded globe which didn’t really get my interest until someone pointed out that it was South-Up. Was the globe made like this, was it mis-assembled or was it a deliberate statement?
This colourful map can be viewed in Winchester Library (spotted by Dave Lovell). I’m not sure where to start on this one: it is horrible, distorted, arbitrarily incomplete and randomly coloured. Perhaps a candidate for the 2019 Gromit Award.
Nigel Clifford (Deputy Chairman of the Geospatial Commission) spotted this map of His Majesties Private Road from London to Fulham embedded, as one would expect’ on the pavement of Kings Road. “The #geospatialthings you find. A map of the King’s roads, fittingly on the King’s Road.”