This is a pretty big (although basic) map. I like the sign for the restrooms just west of the I270 “A local mall of ours uses a big mural map to tell you where they’re located! https://www.westfield.com/wheaton/stores/all-stores“
Quite a few of our friends have been spotting maps in Japan recently. Barend Kobben sent me this map of Hokkaido which he spotted in Sapporo.
Today is GIS Day (for open source geeks, tomorrow is PostGIS Day) Angharad Stone, who is one of the map-maddest people I know, shared this globe cake that she baked for GIS Day. I couldn’t resist asking “What kind of cake is that? Extra Strong Raspberry & Imbe?” I think […]
Paul Hardy shared these massive maps from the Memorial Hall at Madingley American Cemetery. “Here are two really big maps from a building in my locality – on the inside and the outside of the Memorial Hall at the Madingley American Cemetery, at 52.216 N, 0.056 E (close to the […]
Tom Ermitage sent us these lions of an impressive relief map of the Cairngorms which he thinks was a plaster of paris mould “Some great mappy finds in the Pine Marten Bar in Glenmore, #Cairngorms. I really love the old 3D relief map. cc @MapsintheWild #cartography “ Here is some more […]
According to Lauren Tierney this mat is in the shape of Newport, OR. I am going to have to take her word for it as I can’t see the resemblance. Ditto for this t-shirt although I can recognise the shape of the mat above in the second block below. Why […]
Ben Hennig sent us this from Reykajvik “I love your ‘Maps in the Wild’, so I thought of adding a contribution to it from my little rock in the middle of the Atlantic. Though not fully ‘in the wild’, I think this is a pretty nice map to see when […]
Another map from Dave Lovell. This is the logo for the D-Day Story Museum. It may take you a minute to work it out. … the logo, which I have to confess I didn’t immediately recognise as containing a map. A very clever design I think and probably one of […]