Mappery

@lecartographe.bsky.social Le Cartographe spotted this French restaurant sign

Reinder Storm Reinder. spotted this map of Dutch province Gelderland on the floor of the Gelderland Council chamber.

@opencagedata.bsky.social The OpenCage Data team had their offsite in London a few weeks ago.

Reinder Storm Reinder spotted this in the local museum in Woerden.

@mhedney@mapstodon.space Matthew spotted this Fortune magazine cover in the publicity for the MAPS and SOCIETY lectures at https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/whats/lectures-talks/maps-society-lecture-series

Marc Tobias was in London for the recent Geomob and we met up for dinner, he was sporting this stylish t-shirt

Not sure what this film is about or why Tom Cruise is standing on a globe.

Reinder Storm Reinder said “It’s #maptime in the bookshop.

Marc Tobias Metten Marc Tobias paid a visit to Storey’s map shop on his last visit to London. http://www.storeysltd.co.uk/

@freyfogle@mastodon.social Ed Freyfogle was in London and passed the magnificent giant globe outside the LSE.

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.

Denise saw this record cover at the Cafe Comet in Paris.

Via Elizabeth – a prize in the allotment tombola.

Ken spotted this beautiful GWR poster on the underground at Kings Cross.

Elizabeth saw this beautiful t-shirt featuring a map of Japan at a local supermarket.

Denise snapped this truck on the A303.

Rollo spotted this globe topped walking stick in a shop, he clicked a quick ic and only realised when he had walked on that it was a bit blurry.

Reinder Storm Reinder spotted this wall decoration in an Italian restaurant ‘La Piazzetta di Lauro’ in The Hague.

Elizabeth spotted this label on a recycled fabric shopping bag.

Reinder Storm Another stunning globe from Reinder’s visit to the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome

Ken was in Brno for the EuroCarto 2026 International Cartographic Association event.

Reinder Storm Reinder saw this in the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy.

@4Estone@mapstodon.space Sylvain Pierre said “Really nice cover for last “We Demain” issue.

Another one from Paul Hardy – I think this one is magnificent.

Berl Goldbart Berl shared this pic of his beer glass when he was last at Lords.

Paul Hardy Paul said “Mappy objects seen around Glencoe in Scotland.

@rjhale1971@fosstodon.org Randall Hale said “In 1987 I apparently got a board game.

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.

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).

@kennethfield.bsky.social Ken said “Oh… I didn’t know about this exhibition.

@christiannolle@mastodon.cloud Christian said “Prints from airlineatlas.com look like this when framed.

@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!”

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.

@lecartographe.bsky.social I have no idea where Le Cartographe spotted this, I’ll update if he lets me know.

@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.

@kennethfield.bsky.social “Nice graphic thumbnail in this week’s Sunday Times.”

@cartonaut.bsky.social “Cartovan pleasure!

@southarrowmaps.co.nz “At the Grasshopper Pub, Sunshine Coast, BC.

@kennethfield.bsky.social Ken said “Quite like this mappy illustration as part of an article In The Times”

Visiting a second-hand bookshop in Cuisery, Saône-et-Loire, France, I found these maps.

Cuisery is a village in Saône-et-Loire.

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Sarah sent me this picture while travelling in Japan, with only one word: Map!

From 1866 onwards, Jules Verne regularly went to sea and embarked, whenever possible, on one of his ships.

Reinder said “Obviously this olive oil comes from Greece.”

@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…

Reinder (again!)

On the way back while hiking in Belledonne I found this nice compass on the pickup.

Walter Schwartz sent this “This is a copy of the surviving fragment of Ottoman Admiral Piri Reis’s 1513 map of the world.

This morning hike was in Belledonne.