Maps In The Wild

Maps In The Wild

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What’s a Map in the Wild? It’s a map in a real-life context, a sign, a poster, an object, perhaps quirky, perhaps unexpected. What it isn’t is a screen grab from a web site, the output from a GIS or similar.

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Swiss Topo Swatch @kennethfield.bsky.social Ken managed to acquire this super rare Swiss Topo Swatch. In 2012 Swatch gifted this model to employees of the Swiss Federal Office of Topography to celebrate the organisation, its founder General Guillaume Henri Dufour, and the "Dufour" map. It was…

mappery.orgSwiss Topo Swatch@kennethfield.bsky.social Ken managed to acquire this super rare Swiss Topo Swatch. In 2012 Swatch gifted this model to employees of the Swiss Federal Office of Topography to celebrate the organisation, its founder General Guillaume Henri Dufour, and the "Dufour" map. It was never released to retail.
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Tough game today, nowhere near the pace KnowWhere: World Cities - Daily Wed, 14 Oct 2026 🏆 294 / 500 📍 🟩🟩🟩🟧🟥 🌍 5/5 countries ❓ 10/15 answers 💡 0 location clues, 5 wrong answers removed knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/quiz/cities/ #KnowWhere

knowwhereconsulting.co.ukKnowWhere: World Cities — Daily Geography Map QuizPin the place, then prove you know it. Drop a pin on an unlabelled world map, score for how close you get, then answer three questions about each city. Five new cities every day, free to play.
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Map Time Reinder Storm Reinder said "It’s #maptime in the bookshop. At least in the Bruna store at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam." Several very good geography/maps books that I have read in that selection, including "A Line in the Sand" which I recommend to anyone interested in the creation of…

mappery.orgMap TimeReinder Storm Reinder said "It’s #maptime in the bookshop. At least in the Bruna store at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam." Several very good geography/maps books that I have read in that selection, including "A Line in the Sand" which I recommend to anyone interested in the creation of nation states in the 20th century.

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I’ve built a daily geography quiz. Pin five world cities on a map with no labels, then answer three questions about each. How close can you get? knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/quiz/cities/

knowwhereconsulting.co.ukKnowWhere: World Cities — Daily Geography Map QuizPin the place, then prove you know it. Drop a pin on an unlabelled world map, score for how close you get, then answer three questions about each city. Five new cities every day, free to play.
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That big globe again @freyfogle@mastodon.social Ed Freyfogle was in London and passed the magnificent giant globe outside the LSE. He couldn't resist a selfie. I know we have had this globe a few times in the past but if you go there and take the pic then it counts under my rules as a Map in the…

mappery.orgThat big globe again@freyfogle@mastodon.social Ed Freyfogle was in London and passed the magnificent giant globe outside the LSE. He couldn't resist a selfie. I know we have had this globe a few times in the past but if you go there and take the pic then it counts under my rules as a Map in the Wild
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Skynet I had no idea what Skynet was until I looked it up on wiki "Skynet is a fictional artificial neural network-based conscious group mind and artificial general superintelligence system that serves as the main antagonist of the Terminator franchise. In The Terminator, Skynet is an example of a…

mappery.orgSkynetI had no idea what Skynet was until I looked it up on wiki "Skynet is a fictional artificial neural network-based conscious group mind and artificial general superintelligence system that serves as the main antagonist of the Terminator franchise. In The Terminator, Skynet is an example of a machine that has achieved super intelligence" Good choice of shirt for a keynote talk on AI and Cartography at the ICA Conference, Ken!
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Ambient Record Cover at Cafe Comet Denise saw this record cover at the Cafe Comet in Paris. "Ambient , music for airports" is an album by Brian Eno Unsurprisingly Ken wrote about this cover in an ICA blog post back in 2014 - warning, the site can be very slow. Ken said "It’s simple and plays well…

mappery.orgAmbient Record Cover at Cafe CometDenise saw this record cover at the Cafe Comet in Paris. "Ambient , music for airports" is an album by Brian Eno Unsurprisingly Ken wrote about this cover in an ICA blog post back in 2014 - warning, the site can be very slow. Ken said "It’s simple and plays well as a visual accompaniment to the music. It depicts the hazy out-of-focus view we get from high altitude as we crane our necks to make sense of the vastness below."
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Mappa Mundi David Edmondson David said "Having found Mappery via a teapot I had a look on the map of maps and thought the Mappa Mundi at Hereford Cathedral might be a good addition" I have to wonder how David found us via a teapot, sounds like a story. We may have had a Mappa Mundi pic in the past…

mappery.orgMappa MundiDavid Edmondson David said "Having found Mappery via a teapot I had a look on the map of maps and thought the Mappa Mundi at Hereford Cathedral might be a good addition" I have to wonder how David found us via a teapot, sounds like a story. We may have had a Mappa Mundi pic in the past but no harm in reminding ourselves what a marvel this is.
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Dutch Waterline Reinder Storm Reinder said "In the Dutch Waterline Museum at Fort Vechten, a quite large scale model sheds light on how this huge defense construction in the Netherlands worked (between 1870 and 1945). Children really thoroughly enjoy the opportunity to play and explore the…

mappery.orgDutch WaterlineReinder Storm Reinder said "In the Dutch Waterline Museum at Fort Vechten, a quite large scale model sheds light on how this huge defense construction in the Netherlands worked (between 1870 and 1945). Children really thoroughly enjoy the opportunity to play and explore the intriguing constellations. Very spectacular indeed. For when used properly, it actually really works." See and
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It’s another mappy van @kennethfield.bsky.social "It's a Map in the Wild but I'm not sure a telecom company wants to be advertising such a disconnected set of services as part of their disjointed and separated network!"

mappery.orgIt’s another mappy van@kennethfield.bsky.social "It's a Map in the Wild but I'm not sure a telecom company wants to be advertising such a disconnected set of services as part of their disjointed and separated network!"
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Categories on Mappery A bit of site news With a lot of help from Claude I have categorised all 2,400 posts on Mappery and have added a Categories menu that shows all the posts in the category. Some posts have more than one category and I confess that the choice of categories may not always make…

mappery.orgCategories on MapperyA bit of site news With a lot of help from Claude I have categorised all 2,400 posts on Mappery and have added a Categories menu that shows all the posts in the category. Some posts have more than one category and I confess that the choice of categories may not always make sense to you, it did to me when I was doing this!
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Map Dress in Mercator @julietjfall.bsky.social Juliet said "Beginning of exams for some of our geography students today, so rocking my new map dress with its epically-rubbish projection. Why yes, dear students, of course Greenland is bigger than South America!" #sewing #maps #mercator

mappery.orgMap Dress in Mercator@julietjfall.bsky.social Juliet said "Beginning of exams for some of our geography students today, so rocking my new map dress with its epically-rubbish projection. Why yes, dear students, of course Greenland is bigger than South America!" #sewing #maps #mercator

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Playing with Pub Names I recently posted about the build of my "A Pint Near Me" app. When I had finished the build I asked Claude "Can you give me a few interesting stats from the pubs data?" The most 5 common names? How many single name pubs (ie not repeated)? Any regional patterns in naming?…

knowwhereconsulting.co.ukPlaying with Pub NamesI recently posted about the build of my "A Pint Near Me" app. When I had finished the build I asked Claude "Can you give me a few interesting stats from the pubs data?" The most 5 common names? How many single name pubs (ie not repeated)? Any regional patterns in naming? Anything else? Pause for a minute and see if you can guess the answers, maybe have a…

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A Pint Near Me – what you do after 15 seconds of fame This is a genuine pub finder map with 50,000 pub points (mainly OSM). It still includes the pub density choropleth from my 1st pub map but the focus has changed. The main challenges were the data pipeline merging OSM and FHRS data and building…

knowwhereconsulting.co.ukA Pint Near Me – what you do after 15 seconds of fameThis is a genuine pub finder map with 50,000 pub points (mainly OSM). It still includes the pub density choropleth from my 1st pub map but the focus has changed. The main challenges were the data pipeline merging OSM and FHRS data and building a fast and intuitive search.
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Another Birthday – Don’t follow me, I’m lost too @jjimenezshaw@mapstodon.space So this is a genuine 8th birthday post, I already mis-posted a while ago and thank Arnaud my co-editor and partner in crime and all the people like Javier who contribute Maps in the Wild so I am not going to go through…

mappery.orgAnother Birthday – Don’t follow me, I’m lost too@jjimenezshaw@mapstodon.space So this is a genuine 8th birthday post, I already mis-posted a while ago and thank Arnaud my co-editor and partner in crime and all the people like Javier who contribute Maps in the Wild so I am not going to go through all of that again. Thanks. Javier spotted someone wearing this t-shirt. How many people want one? Should I add a version to the Mappery shop?