Elizabeth spotted this notice board at the Muswell Hill Methodist Church

It doesn’t really show the lands that we know of from the bible?

Toby spotted this map of currencies and photos from around the world in a Vietnamese restaurant in Porto

Ana Letica shared these pix from Verbatim Books in San Diego. They sell maps as well!

Obviously not this clock maker who managed to fit everything else in!

Via Ken

A map of the Two Bays walking trail that came with a pair of Nike running shoes.

Ken said “It’s a brave move to target your product to a niche group but #mapsondrinks sells. If it’s got a map on it we’ll try it” I am not sure I would buy/try every type of booze with a map, maybe just the whiskies.

You may have noticed that https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo is now https://github.com/torchgeo/torchgeo. This is not an accident! TorchGeo now belongs to YOU, please join our monthly Technical Steering Committee meetings! TorchGeo...

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Full release notes at Release v0.8.0 · torchgeo/torchgeo · GitHub

TorchGeo is a PyTorch domain library, similar to torchvision, providing
datasets, samplers, transforms, and pre-trained models specific to
geospatial data.

Robert Simmon said “I have lived next to the lake for 7 years and never noticed this map before!”

Credits : Bru-nO (Pixabay Content License)

Thanks to funding from the Bordeaux Metropolis, I had the chance to work on CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK) support in QGIS. The metropolis’ goal is to remove the last barrier preventing their complete migration from ArcGIS to QGIS.

The developments are now complete and will be available in QGIS version 3.40, scheduled for release in October 2024, before becoming the next LTR in February 2025. It should be noted, however, that CMYK support will only be complete in QGIS versions built with Qt 6 (still unofficial version) for reasons explained in the article. On Windows, this version can currently only be installed using OSGeo4W (qgis-qt6-dev version).

Ken must have been visiting Miami

TorchGeo 0.8 includes 28 new pre-trained model weights and a number of improvements required for better time series support, including a complete rewrite of all GeoDataset and GeoSampler internals, encompassing 8 months of hard work by 23 contributors from around the world.

You may have noticed that https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo is now https://github.com/torchgeo/torchgeo. This is not an accident!

Note

TorchGeo now belongs to YOU, please join our monthly Technical Steering Committee meetings!

Jo said that this is one of his favourite maps, I can see why.

Geospatial FM shared this. The Šargan Eight narrow gauge railway. 15.5km of it was restored in 2000 after built 1921, whole route connected Belgrade and Sarajevo

Ken drew my attention to the EUFA logo on the Europa League Cup. I think the purpose was that Arsenal haven’t won much in the last 20 years while this year’s cup was being held by the Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou who subsequently got sacked (twice within a few months!)

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Dear all,

the CRO is pleased to announce the list of new OSGeo Carter Members:

Doug Greenfield spotted this tapestry in Venice airport.

Ken spotted this in a hotel foyer. There should be an eco message here.

Elizabeth spotted this Happy Drum (correct spelling) in Delhi International Airport – different notes for each continent.

Ken said “For anyone wanting a map to spark a discussion about design decisions I offer this recently seen #mapsinthewild. My opinion… I don’t even know where to begin.” Is it the cartography or the purpose of the map that is the problem?

Este 13 de noviembre se celebró el acto de clausura de la VIII edición del Curso-Concurso de Geoalfabetización mediante Tecnologías de la Información Geográfica (TIG), una iniciativa internacional que impulsa el aprendizaje geográfico y territorial a través de herramientas digitales abiertas.

El primer premio fue para el equipo de los Liceos 2 y 3 de Salto, con el proyecto “Mapeando los riesgos: cartografía digital de la siniestralidad vial y la accesibilidad urbana de Salto”, destacado por su enfoque innovador, su análisis territorial y su aporte a una comprensión más sostenible del entorno urbano.

A pirate map spotted by Anita Graser

Ken posing in his James Nihues carto ski jacket

Kenneth Wong shared this “Found this map at Mishima Taisha Shrine. The deeper you explore the map, the more intricate details you could uncover”

Some might argue that it isn’t really “in the wild” but who cares? it’s beautiful.

David Nuttall said “I haven’t been to the beach in a while…. but when I do go…. I am likely to “draw” a map!!!”

I think this came from Ken but if it was someone else who shared it apologies for forgetting!

Javier Jimenez Shaw shared this with us, he said “The equator is a bit off”

Ken said “New airline launch. “What shall we put on the tail”…”umm, a globe””

Ken spotted this on X (didn’t think I knew anyone who was still there). Crystal Palace fans displayed this massive banner plotting their route to the final of the UEFA Conference League.

Maps and football, what’s not to like? Well maybe the invasion type graphics!

I’m big on reuse, repair and recycling which is one of the reasons I volunteer at Glasgow Repair Cafe – I blame being exposed to “Stig of the Dump” at an impressionable age. As a result I struggle to throw out broken things let alone things that still work. However, space limitations mean that I do occasionally have to tidy out some stuff. I discovered that I have way too many old laptops that will come in useful sometime recently. So I installed a light weight linux on two of them and donated one of them to the repair café (where we have several laptops that really should be retired as they lack some keys), the other one is an old ThinkPad which I will use in my workshop/garage so that I don’t get sawdust in my work laptop.

Just in case you didn’t know where it comes from the distillers of Longitude 77 put a map on the label. Via Elizabeth

L’Imaginere shared this map of streets on the pavement in Ath, somewhere to the east of Lille.

You can find it on an OSM project called “A Map of Maps” which says “On this map you can find all maps OpenStreetMap knows – typically a big map on an information board showing the area, city or region, e.g. a tourist map on the back of a billboard, a map of a nature reserve, a map of cycling networks in the region, …). If a map is missing, you can easily map this map on OpenStreetMap.” What a great project!

Você sabia que o GeoServer pode armazenar toda a sua configuração (workspaces, stores, layers, styles) em um banco de dados PostgreSQL, em vez de gravar arquivos XML no diretório data_dir?

Isso é possível com dois módulos da comunidade: JDBCConfig e JDBCStore. Apesar de frequentemente usados juntos, eles têm funções diferentes e complementares.

1. O que é o JDBCConfig

O JDBCConfig é um módulo que permite ao GeoServer salvar toda a configuração do catálogo(metadados) dentro de um banco relacional, como o PostgreSQL.

Desde siempre, en Geomatico hemos hecho agilismo. En nuestra búsqueda por ofrecer el mejor servicio a las empresas con las que colaboramos, creemos que una de las mejores maneras de hacerlo es aplicando metodologías ágiles.

El agilismo llegó a Geomatico antes que el propio Geomatico. Ya en 2009 asistíamos a Open Spaces sobre agilismo, cuando todavía no estaba tan bien visto utilizarlo.

Durante años fuimos profundizando en la metodología y aprendiendo de la experiencia de aplicarla en la vida real. Han sido muchas las herramientas que hemos probado y muchas las discusiones sobre qué son realmente los puntos de historia, qué significa una historia de 10 puntos frente a una de 3, y cómo conciliar todo eso con nuestra realidad en la gestión económica de los proyectos.

David Sherren sent us this pic which he took in The Old Customs House, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth. He said “Anyone who is familiar with Portsmouth Harbour will know that it is not actually joined to Gosport by a land bridge, as appears to be the case on this decorative chart!” I have to confess I am not familiar with Portsmouth Harbour but now I want to go there to view the map and check its lack of veracity.

Walter Schwartz sent us this pic from his trip to Nepal, he said “We visited a modest 24-student school for ages 3 to 11 in a small village outside the mountain town of Lumle, Nepal. The principal’s office features a desk with a world map desk pad and a display globe. The value of maps in education is ubiquitous.”

We agree with Walter hence the title of this Map in the World.

GeoServer 3 is a major upgrade led by a consortium of Camptocamp, GeoSolutions, and GeoCat and backed by a successful crowdfunding activity.

This is a major investment in the future of GeoServer and we are pleased to provide a project update. The GeoServer 3 code sprint completed last week, and we have quite a list of accomplishments to share.

• Photos
• GeoServer 2.28.0
• GeoServer 2025 Q4 Developer Update

Reinder shared this pic with us – “at Van Piere bookshop in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Oh – and how about the ‘map bag’ …? 

Esta charla forma parte de una serie de eventos geoespaciales que se desarrollan dentro de la Semana Geoespacial y son previas a la conferencia IDE (Infraestructura de Datos Geoespaciales) de Chile, que se celebrará el 4 de noviembre de 2025.

Este webinar, en el que participaron casi sesenta (60) asistentes, fue impartido por Ariel Anthieni, CEO de Kan Territory & IT y presidente de Geolibres Argentina, junto con Carmen Díez, Técnica SIG de Urbanismo, y Carlos López Quintanilla, CEO de PSIG, ambos pertenecientes a la junta directiva de la Asociación QGIS España, encargados de la Presidencia y Tesorería, respectivamente.

Participantes de la charla virtual IDE Chile.

Keith Hodgson sent us this pic of Glenshiels Chocolate along with this lovely message:

“Greetings Friends of maps

On a recent camping holiday in Scotland, we stayed at Glenshiels. A local small firm made chocolate with an outlet and cafe attached to the small building that housed the works. Being a lover of good, dark chocolate, several bars were bought. Once eaten, the inside of the packaging revealed a bonus in the form of a map of the area. Something to share after the delicious chocolate.

Love your site, thanks for all you do keeping it going.”

And our thanks to you Keith for your kind words, a bar of that chocolate would also be appreciated!

Mark Iliffe is running the New York marathon today. Here he is with his participant number. If you are an armchair marathon follower, look out for him.

Good luck Mark

Reinder spotted this plan at the municipal archives in The Hague: in English it says ‘Map of the good city’ Den Haag.