Maps within the Wild is a crowdsourced and curated map archive of real-world maps present in on a regular basis life – corresponding to park maps, museum guides, transit maps, or historic maps displayed in public areas. The web site consists solely of pictures of real-world maps submitted by readers.
Individuals from all over the world submit images to Maps within the Wild of maps they spot in real-life. These can embody maps on clothes, tattoos, café partitions, subway stations, commercials, public murals, and even on truffles. The archive is a enjoyable, usually quirky celebration of how maps seem in surprising locations and the way they’re used creatively outdoors of on-line contexts.
Scrambled Maps within the Wild
Now, TripGeo (to which I additionally contribute) has teamed up with Maps within the Wild to launch Scrambled Maps within the Wild – a brand new twist on the traditional scrambled map jigsaw recreation. This particular collection takes chosen real-world map pictures from Maps within the Wild and turns them into interactive puzzles.
The primary installment options seven scrambled map video games (with extra to return), every difficult gamers to reassemble these artistic and strange map sightings.
Test it out and get puzzling!
In case you have a picture of a map that you just wish to contribute to Maps within the Wild e-mail it to “Maps at Mappery dot Org”.
