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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Master Plans of Shanghai

Kenneth Wong shared these pics of 6 master plans of Shanghai, from 1930 to 2017, in the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center.
Master Plans of Shanghai
Kenneth Wong shared these pics of 6 master plans of Shanghai, from 1930 to 2017, in the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center.
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Can we post that as a work in progress with a follow up when you are finished?
Map Mural of Ljubljana

Niklas Alt said "There probably is nothing more fitting to illustrate a tour with the editor of the forthcoming #HistoricTownAtlas of #Ljubljana than this #MapsInTheWild. This is a very accurate carved historical map of 17th century Ljubljana from the 1960s in an atrium on…
Map Mural of Ljubljana
Niklas Alt said "There probably is nothing more fitting to illustrate a tour with the editor of the forthcoming #HistoricTownAtlas of #Ljubljana than this #MapsInTheWild. This is a very accurate carved historical map of 17th century Ljubljana from the 1960s in an atrium on main street."
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Embroidered World Map

This exquisite embroidered world map was spotted by Reinder at the Amsterdam Book Fair. Who can identify the original map on which it is based?
Embroidered World Map
This exquisite embroidered world map was spotted by Reinder at the Amsterdam Book Fair. Who can identify the original map on which it is based?
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Canada in Tiles

Eldan Goldenberg spotted this tile mosaic map of Canada at the Rogers Pass Summit with the Trans-Canada Highway in black, and most provinces and territories in different colours except that it predates Nunavut being split off from the North West Territories.
Canada in Tiles
Eldan Goldenberg spotted this tile mosaic map of Canada at the Rogers Pass Summit with the Trans-Canada Highway in black, and most provinces and territories in different colours except that it predates Nunavut being split off from the North West Territories.
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John Speed Enlarged

Matthew shared this "this might be my last time in the Science Hall office of the history of #cartography project, as the building is about to get entirely rehabilitated before I next have to return in person! So here’s David Woodward’s blow up of 1651 Speed #maps#maphistory
John Speed Enlarged
Matthew shared this "this might be my last time in the Science Hall office of the history of #cartography project, as the building is about to get entirely rehabilitated before I next have to return in person! So here’s David Woodward’s blow up of 1651 Speed #maps … #maphistory … w photos of Woodward and Harley !!!!"
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Tokyo on Granite

Javier shared this - Circular map in a granite stone in Tokyo, Japan. "You are here" in the center. Names in Japanese and English.
Tokyo on Granite
Javier shared this - Circular map in a granite stone in Tokyo, Japan. "You are here" in the center. Names in Japanese and English.
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Jungle Adventures

Another one from Matthew Edney "jungle adventures is an indoor black light crazy golf course in Old Orchard Beach, Maine - here’s the map of Africa (actually 3d); they also have a world map. (And I won!)"
Jungle Adventures
Another one from Matthew Edney "jungle adventures is an indoor black light crazy golf course in Old Orchard Beach, Maine - here’s the map of Africa (actually 3d); they also have a world map. (And I won!)"
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Tactile Map

Matthew Edney said "3d cast braille/tactile map of the Garden of the Five Senses, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME, USA. Very cool place, even for an indoor-person like me!"
Tactile Map
Matthew Edney said "3d cast braille/tactile map of the Garden of the Five Senses, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME, USA. Very cool place, even for an indoor-person like me!"
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Street View with a Little Map

Reinder said "My former employer - 82 by now - drew a primitive impression of a street in our old home town. On the right corner is his antiquarian bookshop that he actually still keeps running. In the window one can see a map of the Netherlands." I love this
Street View with a Little Map
Reinder said "My former employer - 82 by now - drew a primitive impression of a street in our old home town. On the right corner is his antiquarian bookshop that he actually still keeps running. In the window one can see a map of the Netherlands." I love this
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Valenciennes Library

From Reinder's Tour de France: cartographically inspired decoration in the 18th C. library And that's the end of Reinder's Tour de France. He is an example to all of us in spotting maps in the wild wherever he goes.
Valenciennes Library
From Reinder's Tour de France: cartographically inspired decoration in the 18th C. library And that's the end of Reinder's Tour de France. He is an example to all of us in spotting maps in the wild wherever he goes.
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The World in Stained Glass

From Reinder's Tour de France: "Stained glass windows in La chapelle de l'Université Catholique in Lille, France."
The World in Stained Glass
From Reinder's Tour de France: "Stained glass windows in La chapelle de l'Université Catholique in Lille, France."
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Recommended Hotel

From Reinder's Tour de France: "Recommended Hotel in Lille, France (Hotel Brueghel, that was). Quite nice, actually."
Recommended Hotel
From Reinder's Tour de France: "Recommended Hotel in Lille, France (Hotel Brueghel, that was). Quite nice, actually."
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Globes in Lille Market

From Reinders Tour de France "Globes in a 2nd hand book market in Lille, France. Not quite spectacular -- but still." 
Globes in Lille Market
From Reinders Tour de France "Globes in a 2nd hand book market in Lille, France. Not quite spectacular -- but still." 
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French Cheese Board Map

Another one from Reinder. "A fromagerie where they present cheese on a 'France-shaped' wooden-and-straw kind of plateau... Avec plaisir, au revoir,
French Cheese Board Map
Another one from Reinder. "A fromagerie where they present cheese on a 'France-shaped' wooden-and-straw kind of plateau... Avec plaisir, au revoir,
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