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Maps in the Wild: Marking off the Countries Visited: Marc-Tobias spotted this camper van in Hamburg. It looks as if the owners are marking off the countries that they have visited in it.MapsintheWild...
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Maps in the Wild: Orchids festival: Barry Ruderman from raremaps.com shared this map from the Orchids Festival in Kew Gardens.MapsintheWild Orchids festival...
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Maps in the Wild: Destination East Finchley: Anthony spotted this at East Finchley underground station.The blurb says:“Destination East Finchley is a community project, which began in 2017, led by...
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Maps in the Wild: Japanese Garage Door: Marc-Tobias spotted this map on a garage door in Yuigahama beach, Kamakura, Japan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuigahama (beach), part of...
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Maps in the Wild: Giant China Map in Zaragoza: Angel Arenas sent us his latest project. It’s a giant interactive map of China at the University of Zaragoza. The scale of these maps is so impressive, a...
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Maps in the Wild: Kids on the Map: Reinder sent us this pic from the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam“The Maritime Museum in Rotterdam has taken the next step in the field of target group approach and...
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Maps in the Wild: Map Mannequin in Paris: Moritz Schillinger joins the club of Maps in the Wild contributors with his first post of this superb map mannequin.“Last weekend in Paris I discovered a map...
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Maps in the Wild: You are on the Plate: Reinder spotted this plate in a shop window in The Hague. “Shop window, Piet Heinstraat, The Hague, Netherlands. The spot where one can see this little scene is...
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Maps in the Wild: Norrebro Collection: Rollo shared this water bottle with a street mapMapsintheWild Norrebro Collection...
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Maps in the Wild: Berlin, Schoneberg: What a fantastic station signage! Marc-Tobias sent me this which he spotted on his way home from a recent Geomob Berlin event.Note that it includes...
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Maps in the Wild: The Geographic Center of the United States is at …: Ander Andersen is another new contributor. He kicks off with marker for the geographic center of the US. UK readers please forgive...
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Maps in the Wild: Western Hemisphere: This came from Moritz Schillinger“This map painting is from David Hardy showing the western hemisphere (artist name Le Suisse Marocain – website...
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Maps in the Wild: New York, mosaic: Matt Malone spotted this fantastic mosaic-tiled map of NYC 🍎 at LaGuardia Airport during his first trip there last October. As a geographer, he said he was required...
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Maps in the Wild: Globe Escape Alert!: Marc-Tobias spotted this little globe that had set out on a journey to freedom starting in Hannover, I wonder where it will end up?Good luck little...
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Maps in the Wild: King David’s Tower 1 – Adrichem’s Map: While we were in Israel we spent some time in Jerusalem, friends suggested that we visit the new museum about Jerusalem in King David’s Tower....
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Maps in the Wild: King David’s Tower 2 – The Clover Map: Bunting’s Clover Map is an archetypal map of the world from a time when only three continents were known to Europeans – Europe, Africa and...
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Maps in the Wild: King David’s Tower 3 – Between Heaven and Earth: This display showed maps of Jerusalem from different periods, I like the way the maps are juxtaposed against the view through the...
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Maps in the Wild: King David’s Tower 4 – The Islamic World in the 10th Century: This carved stone map shows the extent of the Islamic World in the 10th Century, quite a remarkable expansion in three...
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Maps in the Wild: King David’s Tower 5 – Jerusalem Monopoly: An early version of Monopoly based in Jerusalem from the period of the British Mandate.MapsintheWild King David’s Tower 5 – Jerusalem...
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Maps in the Wild: King David’s Tower 6 – The Madaba Map: The Madaba mosaic map is one of the oldest surviving maps of Jerusalem.“A famous Byzantine mosaic map, discovered in 1896 in the town of Madaba...
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