Haneda Airport Ken spotted this globe art thing in Haneda Airport

French Food Map Reinder said "I live in The Hague. Around the corner is a French bakery that produces excellent bread and pastries. On the wall: a quite irresistible map of (food in) France."

Liked this bit from Mikel Arteta. And I do genuinely hope something good will happen 🤞🏻 #Arsenal 🔴⚪

Thanks to @arseblog.com for befriending a solo Toby F in the away crew last night

Compass Rose Ken spotted this in Washington "Map based compass rose from Convention Center in DC. Sadly it makes no sense."

Festival Republis may lose between £5m and £10m from the cancellation of the Wireless Festival - maybe offering a 2nd chance to a serial Nazi and antisemite wasn't such a good idea? Paricularly since he had already had 3 or 4 chances Receivership next?

College Neerlandais Reinder spotted this magnificent map mural in the main hall, at the Collège Néerlandais, Cité Universitaire in Paris, France. The building was opened in 1938.

Invitation From A Dictator Rory Clements has knocked it out of the park with Invitation from a Dictator. If you’re looking for a historical thriller that manages to be both a relentless page-turner and a deeply clever piece of storytelling, this is it. The Sebastian Wolff series just keeps getting…

Critical Minerals – The Global Supply Chain Listening to the news about the impact of the current war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, I was prompted to think about critical minerals that could also have massive disruptive impact in geopolitical turmoil. I asked Claude "Can you build a…

Club Land Denise had a meeting at the RAC Ckub on Pall Mall. Her host had this limited edition pocket square.

Under Admiralty Arch SJT Riley’s Under Admiralty Arch is a charmingly traditional spy story that whisked me back to the biting winter of 1953. Centered on Robert Lynnford, a crime reporter caught between a suspicious assassination and a desperate Polish refugee, the novel excels as a brisk, very…

Ken’s Whisky We've probably had the Ardmore whisky label before but Ken noticed that his name was on the label so I thought that was worth a return appearance.

The Ubilabs office on chocolate Martin Kleppe shared this chocolate bar from their office building in Hamburg.

#mapsinthewild Original post: troet.cafe/@pLum0/11632...

Kanye- On top of the world. This one came from Ken www.instagram.com/reel/DWpHkQU...

Kanye- On top of the world. This one came from Ken www.instagram.com/reel/DWpHkQU...

We tried watching Power, the Huw Edwards drama on Channel 5. I'm fine with adverts but 2-3 minutes every 10 minutes made it unwatchable particularly given the unpleasant nature of the story. I'm sure Edwards will have a rebuttal out soon but will anyone want to read or watch it?

Cheap Fuel Near Me I wrote this app knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/maps/fuel-fi... to help you find the cheapest petrol prices in your vicinity. It is based on the UK Government's fuel price API

Find Cheap Fuel Near Me – APIs and cron jobs Having knocked up a simple fuel finder based on a csv download from the government site at the beginning of the week I thought "How difficult could it be to make something more functional and elegant and connect to the government fuel finder API?"…

Baslow Edge Contour Mug My pal Anthony had this mug in his kitchen the last time I visited, I had to snap it as a map in the wild.

Umbrella with Town Plan of Zwolle Another one from Reinder "in one of the most spectacular bookshops in the Netherlands: Van der Velde 'In de broeren', in Zwolle of course, in the Dutch province of Overijssel." I think this deserves a wow!

If you are a mac user and you get dropped connections to a NAS, give AutoMounter www.pixeleyes.co.nz/automounter/ a try (App Store) - brilliant little tool that has solved my backup problems.

GMT has shifted! Ken spotted this. I don't know whether this a political comment or just incompetence, either way I imagine it will prompt some discussion.

Truth Social No explanation needed

Petrol Prices in the North Sea This morning there was a lot of amused banter amongst my geo-pals about the UK Government's Fuel Finder API based on an article in The Times (possible paywall) on the problems with the data. You can download the data or access the api from the gov.uk site. I…

National Symbols – from zero to hero in an hour I was thinking about what map to make next and I thought about flags, national symbols like birds or animals. I started out with a very simple prompt to see what Claude would come up with: I want to make an interactive map of national symbols: Flags,…

Zutphen in 3D "This is a 3D version in bronze, of the 1639 map of the town of Zutphen, by Nicolaas Geelkercken. Zutphen was part of the Hanseatic League. Do hope you like it. Cheers, Reinder" Yes we do!

Day 88 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 29th is Piano Day. So here's a map you can actually play with countries as piano keys! Map Melody 88/365 mapdesign.icaci.org/2026/03/happ...

University College Hospital I spotted this on a visit to UCLH. Anything that distracts you from the reason you are in a hospital is a good thing and if it's a map even better.

The Riverway, IPA Mark says that the beer is as good as the can.

North Holland Archive Who else but Reinder would stumble on this?

I know it’s a 1000-1 chance, but I picked up a scarf around Block 525 at Wembley on Sunday. One of those sent out to Season Ticket holders a few years ago, with your initials on it… someone named BM. Anyone know a BM at the Final and who lost their scarf?? #COYG #Arsenal

Quite the quote "If you support the only democracy in its region, the only place where LGBTQ+ people, women and minorities of every kind are legally (and pretty much substantively) equal, you are not welcome at Pride" pat604johnson.substack.com/p/act-now-de...

The Spy and the Snake In "The Spy and the Snake," M.J. Robotham delivers a thrilling sequel featuring Maggie Flynn, an MI5 agent navigating her first significant field mission. Set against the backdrop of the 1960s, the story blends humour and tension as Maggie poses as a defector's wife, facing…

Mural in Munich Moritz said "I found a map mural at a house front in Munich-Neuhausen. It's in a residential area which was built in the 1920s and it has clearly quite that aesthetic. " And here is a larger view streetplan

At Moro I saw this at the back of Moro restaurant in Exmouth Market, London

Metro Maps of the World Rollo spotted this book in his local charity shop, very nice riff on the tube map and a globe.

The Comfort of Distant Stars I wanted to like The Comfort of Distant Stars by I.O. Echeruo. It starts with a clever, intriguing hook: Ezeani, a Nigerian child prodigy who sees visions of the Sun God, Anyanwu, grows up to become a brilliant physicist at Cornell. On paper, a story fusing quantum…

Incredible detail with limited tools in this 1740's map of central London www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heatmap from Graphic to Interactive Spoiler Alert: This is a pretty geeky post that may only appeal to Dead Heads! I had an idea to go back to my Dead Reckoning project to look at the frequency that different songs were played by the Grateful Dead over the 31 years of gigging. I had already…

Lipsius, Leiden Reinder spotted this massive globe in the Lipsius building, at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. You'd know about it if the world fell on your head.

The problem with a 4.30 kick off for the Carabao Cup Final is the hours of anticipation. How are you feeling? #gooners #afc #coyg

Lego Melbourne Airport Denise shared these pics of this massive 1:100 Lego model of Melbourne Airport. Ken asked "Does it take as long to get from the international to domestic terminal as it does at the real airport?" Quite an undertaking putting this together.

Crockett Texas Jeremy spotted this map of Texas at Hickory’s Smokehouse, Gamston, Nottinghamshire. I guess there is some connection between a hickory smokehouse nad Texas. Who knew that Crockett Texas is the heart of the world's largest pine and oak Timberland?

‼️Iranian missile hits 350 meters from Al-Aqsa mosque. [Ynet] (Are they bloody aiming for it?!?)

Haarlem Reinder shared this magnificent model of Haarlem which he spotted in the Kees Verwey museum in (not surprisingly) the city of Haarlem. See 

Environmental Impact of Airports – Wrestling with Data I was looking for a simpler project to build after my last couple which had proved more complicated than I had anticipated. I came up with the idea of mapping airports and finding some data on their environmental impact - good idea, but not so…

A Murder in Eight Cocktails ’ll be the first to admit that picking up A Murder in Eight Cocktails was a bit of a lapse in judgment on my part. I’ve never been a fan of the "cutesy" amateur detective sub-genre—especially the flavor that relies on "spunky" older characters reclaiming their…

Languages of the World Reinder spotted this cover of a book "on the subject of mutual relationship of languages in the world. I like it a lot."

Glasses Case Anthony has got a very nice mappy glasses case.