Reinder spotted this exquisite flyleaf detailing the travels of Marco Polo. I could gawp at this for ages without ever turning a page. The cover is pretty amazing too. BTW, today is Marco Polo’s birthday (born in 1254)
Greg Fiske said “Admiring the nexus of #IndigenousArt and #mapsinthewild this week. Dena’ina land” In case you are wondering Dena’ina is in south Alaska (the map shows the whole of Alaska)
Michel Stuyts asks “Am I the only one who sees this kind of clock in a shop and the first thing that comes to mind is: I wonder what kind of projection they used?” The answer is definitely not! There are thousands of map lovers here who would love to […]
Matt Malone shared this, he said “Stumbled upon this excellent woodcarved street map of Salt Lake City recently. Airports should have their own #MapsInTheWild category.” We don’t really do categories on Mappery because I would forget to tag things and Arnaud or Dan would probaly tag them differently and there […]
Julien Minet shared this spectacular mappy beer bottle. “Here again an association of cartography and beers, a hand-drawn map of some part of the Ardenne printed on a special edition of the Belgian beer La Tharée”
Brian shared these pics from Yellowhammer Brewing Co in Huntsville, AL. He said “The beer and pizza were great. Maps depict other microbreweries.” That’s one heck of a lot of micro breweries!
To celebrate the Paralympic Closing Ceremony, here are two pictures of the Olympics Closing Ceremony where the stage had the shape of the World