Who wouldn’t want their wine or port decanted into a globe?

Half dome (Yosemite National Park) blown in the base of the glass to create an interesting drinking vessel.

Visiting friends recently and their kids had this fun blow up globe that serves as a beach ball and a geography primer. The photo opportunity was too sweet to miss as it reminded me of the famous sculpture of Atlas. “In Greek mythology, Atlas was a Titan condemned to hold […]

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Just an array of mappy mugs. It was a morning for manhattan Vignelli inspired tea.

Codrina Ilie sent us this picture of her map tattoo (at least i think it is a tattoo, it could be chocolate). I think it is Mercator on her arm but maybe a projections geek will correct me or you could ask her when you see her at FOSS4G in […]

Gromit (from Wallace and Gromit) showing Bristol street scenes, landmarks and cultural stuff.

Esri always sells drinkware at the User Conference in San Diego with some mappy theme. Just for fun.

Roger Payne sent us this Map Cow “After your request for maps in the wild at Geomob here’s one. It’s an old photo from 2000 I had to scan from a print. It was part of Cow Parade https://www.cowparade.com/our-story/ in New York, and happened to be the first Cow I came across, found […]