Reinder saw this “… at a Starbucks branch, near the railway station in Amersfoort. Until I looked at this it had not occurred to me that all f the world’s coffee was grown in this ‘belt” around the globe
Faye Chant sent us this, she said “I spotted this amazing backlit map of Ukraine in a Ukrainian cafe in London while queuing for a sandwich next door! Must go back to sample the local delights.”
Reinder again! Who else in Den Haag? “Whilst working on the construction of the central railway station in The Hague (the Netherlands), the situation is shielded and ‘explained’ by means of Cartographically designed screens. Not The Hague is depicted though, but Leiden and Rotterdam. “
My birthday present this year was a trip along the Sognefjord (the longest and deepest in Norway). It was breathtakingly beautiful and inevitably we had to have a paper map to give us a sense of where we were along the route. After 25 years as a digital geographer I […]
On his travels around France, Reinder spotted these mappy objects at a car boot sale. “… some Mappery items I ran into while strolling around at the frequent ‘vide greniers’ [empty your attic] in the province of Haute-Marne, in the northeast of France. “
Reinder says “ On this electronic information panel in the library of the Göttingen University is indicated on a map of the centre of town where students can get sanitary products for free. “