Ken was in Brno for the EuroCarto 2026 International Cartographic Association event. He spotted this neat map of Italy on the wall outside and Italian delicatessen.

Karen Rose kicks things off in The One Who Walked Away with a compelling setup, introducing bounty hunter Elle Randolph as she tracks a fugitive through the rugged wilderness of Mendocino County. Elle is still piecing her life back together following the fatal accident that ended her marriage to an abusive husband, giving her a quiet grit that grounds the narrative.

Reinder Storm Reinder saw this in the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy. A beautiful object in a quite stunning library. See

@4Estone@mapstodon.space Sylvain Pierre said "Really nice cover for last "We Demain" issue. Artwork from Enki Bilal"

On the confirmation that the City dynasty was a falsehood, the sadness that brings, and what should happen next.

Alex Shaw’s Codename: 61 gets off to a strong start, establishing a dual-timeline structure that alternates between the perilous world of the Special Operations Executive in 1942 and a quieter postwar reality in 1961. The narrative benefits from this premise, following railwayman-turned-commando Jim Tate as a wartime tragedy drives him into the shadows of occupied France, only for his peaceful life as a railway engineer in Kenya to be upended decades later by his former SOE partner, Adrian Snow.

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. Can't really argue with the sentiment after the summer we've had!

Paul Hardy Paul said "Mappy objects seen around Glencoe in Scotland. Note that General Roy went on to found the Ordnance Survey as the national mapping agency of Britain.

Just Fancy That! Earl Spencer and the Daily Mail. From the new Private Eye, out now.

Thanks to Zachary DeBottis what3words' 2025 accounts I am fascinated by what3words, it defies the laws of finance that apply to most businesses and shows how little my old fashioned understanding of business models is relevant in the modern tech economy. The idea of a verbal description of a 3m square as a proxy for coordinates might have sounded like a good idea a decade ago but adoption seems to have been slow and new technology may be about to overtake the idea.

Charles Cumming has built a solid reputation over the years as one of our more reliable contemporary spy writers, which makes Icarus 17 all the more disappointing. This latest outing leans much closer to a high-tech thriller than a traditional espionage novel, and unfortunately, the foundational premise proves remarkably flaky. The narrative relies on a lopsided technological setup where the goodies are conveniently equipped with omniscience regarding the villains' movements, while the opposition remains oddly blind, draining the suspense of any genuine tension.

@rjhale1971@fosstodon.org Randall Hale said "In 1987 I apparently got a board game. Never played it for some reason." Maybe you weren't interested in global domination?

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. We may have had a Mappa Mundi pic in the past but no harm in reminding ourselves what a marvel this is.

After I had finished categorising all the posts on Mappery (see this post) it occurred to me that a similar strategy might be used for geocoding ungeocoded posts. If you have been following my vibe coding posts you will know that Arnaud and I built a geocoding and mapping plugin for our WordPress site that we are about to publish.

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). Children really thoroughly enjoy the opportunity to play and explore the intriguing constellations. Very spectacular indeed. For when used properly, it actually really works." See and

@kennethfield.bsky.social Ken said "Oh... I didn't know about this exhibition. It's over now but glad there's an online version "

@christiannolle@mastodon.cloud Christian said "Prints from airlineatlas.com look like this when framed. Here in A2 on Hahnemuhle paper."

@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!"

Dark, deceptive, and absorbing, Rebecca Birrell’s Venus, Vanishing initially masquerades as a familiar coming-of-age story following a young woman in prewar Berlin as she discovers her independence amidst the city's fleeting freedoms. But it quickly shifts into something much more dangerous and unexpected. The narrative explores desire and art against the suffocating backdrop of a city on the edge. Following Hannah, a runaway artist navigating the galleries and clubs of 1928 Berlin, the book anchors its focus on her reckless affair with Elke, the imperious wife of a powerful man.

On the Mappery site we have almost 2,400 posts on WordPress and we had never used the Category feature to sort them when we were adding posts. When we built the new Mappery Map Plugin for WordPress we included the option to only map posts in a specific category which we thought would be useful to some users in the future.Yesterday afternoon I wanted to see if there was a smart way to categorise 2,400 posts without stepping through each one in the WordPress edit interface which would have required time and dedication that I didn't have!

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. Some posts have more than one category and I confess that the choice of categories may not always make sense to you, it did to me when I was doing this!

@lecartographe.bsky.social I have no idea where Le Cartographe spotted this, I'll update if he lets me know. I just love the combination of the old map with the musical instruments.

Yesterday I gave a talk at Geomob London on my adventures in vibe coding. The slides are pretty but probably don't tell the whole story unless you have been reading my regular posts on my projects. The images in the slides are all cartoons of an old dog learning new tricks and got some praise, the way I made them was interesting, so i thought I would post about it.

@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. Why yes, dear students, of course Greenland is bigger than South America!" #sewing #maps #mercator

@kennethfield.bsky.social "Nice graphic thumbnail in this week's Sunday Times." Anything that Tim Marshall writes is worth reading.

A 2nd version of the Geomob Events map that is driven from a Google Sheet. Uses the OpenCage geocoding API to get coordinates for the event cities.

@cartonaut.bsky.social "Cartovan pleasure! Elevation lines as decorative panel on adventure van" I wonder where those elevation lines are from? Looks like the van was built/decorated by

Ian Muehlenhaus revisits the concept of disputation

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@southarrowmaps.co.nz "At the Grasshopper Pub, Sunshine Coast, BC. This is my first visit to the Sunshine Coast and it definitely won’t be my last What a wonderful part of the province/country/world! " And what a great coffee table.

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