The Rubik’s cube was a great toy in the 1980s. Here’s a lesser known version and equally challenging.
Continuing the theme of Map T-Shirts. The nice people at Boundless had this great make your own map t-shirt of Boston activity by their booth at FOSS4G 2017 (which of course was in Boston). Lots of people chilled out while painting their personalised maps. I had a go but since […]
Last year’s FOSS4G EU in Guimaraes had some great map t-shirts including this one. I’m not sure whether this Brio inspired t-shirt can be considered a map but it was a rather good contrast to the one above.
Merryn Henderson drew my attention to a brilliant thread of tweets from Frank Cottrell-Boyce with maps from classic literary fiction. I’m not sure if these are #MapsintheWild but they are an absolute delight so I thought I would share them with you (apologies for the way some tweets in a […]
Seen on the London Underground in December, this poster sits next to the regular Tube Map that we all know. It shows Harry Beck’s original “diagram” of 1933 and a preceding “geographic” map from 1908. May not be quirky or wild but hey! I edit this thing so I get […]
Stanfords has been a ‘go to’ place for map lovers for over a century. Founded by Edward Stanford in 1853, they have been located in their current Long Acre premises since 1901. They are about to move to a new location in Mercer Walk and while clearing stock out of […]