Lauren Tierney of the Washington Post, loves this collection of maps and topographic models in the University of Wisconsin’s Madison Science Hall.
Fell runner, author and Chair of the Society of Cartographers, Steve Chilton was given these three mugs as a birthday present, of the Three Peaks – the highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales. The Three Peaks Challenge is an event where participants have to ascend every peak within 24 […]
A political and topographic map featuring on this mural on the wall of a library in Atlantic City, spotted by Rosemary Wardley
Samara Ebinger was given some socks in a box with a map of Northfield in Vermont on the lid claiming that it is the Sock Capital of the World. Like me, I’m sure you are all wondering when it overtook Fort Payne, Alabama.
Diane Fritz found this great brass “MasterMap” in Minnehaha Creek, Minnesota. It’s even self referential, mapping its own location at site 3! @OrdnanceSurvey, where are your brass ones?
To mark International Womens’ Day 2023 it seems fitting to post the first global map of the ocean floor produced by Marie Tharp and her colleague Bruce Heezen in 1977 when it was published in the National Geographic magazine. Twenty years earlier, the pair mapped the floor of the North […]
Dan Harris spotted this map on the ceiling of a hotel near the Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond. A more literal interpretation of the high road than the song originally intended!
Elizabeth gave me this programme from a concert at London’s Southbank Centre. Nice combination of a musical instrument with the globe and the newspaper.
My sister spotted this beautiful globe at Petworth House, it is allegedly the first English terrestrial globe. In the 16th century, accurate maps and globes were critical to planning trade, maritime navigation, foreign policy and warfare. Indeed, the quality of the information they supplied could determine success or failure, life […]