This rather fine coffee table, which used to belong to my father, depicts the River Thames all the way from source to mouth. The river has been carved into the table and then painted silver, with both ends then wrapping around the side of the table. I’m not sure who […]
Regulars will know that we get a lot of maps in the wild which feature, wine, spirits or beer. I couldn’t resist this Wainwright beer glass (suitably filled) for the last of my birthday sequence. Nick Hill sent this pic. “Not sure if you’ve had this one before? I saw […]
Happy Birthday to the incredible @mapsinthewild! 🎉 Mappery has been a constant source of inspiration for my wanderlust adventures. I’m sharing a photo of a motorbike I spotted in Toulouse, France to celebrate this special day. The licence plate from Germany stands for a long journey. The vibrant city always […]
Today is Mappery’s 6th birthday. Remarkable really that we have kept this up for 6 years, that’s just over 1600 posts with almost 2,500 images, 300 weekly email newsletters, thousands of social media follows (no longer X’ing) and a lot of support from our readers and contributors who have made […]
A bonus pic from Ken for our birthday. Ken was in New York recently and he sent this map in the wild from a diner that he stopped at. To fit the map into the available space they rotated it to west up.
Doug shared this – Surficial geology of Maine #MapsintheWild @ Watershed Art Center Newcastle, Maine If like me you thought Surficial Geology was a typo, read and learn
Eric said “Today I visited the municipality of Pijnacker-Nootdorp. There’s a beautiful #mapsinthewild carpet in the Council Chamber (with even half of Delft on it)”