Hi. Aliexpress search is very poor. Can someone help me find a good world map I can hang on the wall?
Doesn’t need to fulfil all the points, but I value these properties:
- Less than 300€
- Big! Huge! My ceiling is like 4m tall so there won’t be one that’s too big.
- A projection that is size-accurate over shape-accurate
- Labels in official languages of the countries rather than English
- Up to date
- No outlined borders
- Sold on a site that’s easy to purchase from
- High quality print up-close
I don’t expect to be able to find something that fulfils all the criteria, but searching for maps is difficult because they all seem to provide really low resolution photos and aren’t organised. So I’d greatly appreciate any recommendations.
If there’s a set I can get with regional maps that together make up the earth that would be rad too.
artists love a big empty wall, have you considered commissioning a painting? I had a huge empty wall in my new apartment and this artist saw it and fell in love with my wall, he offered to do a painting just for the cost of paint, I told him I couldn’t really afford it and he just said fuck it I’ll do it for free. Took him like a day and it was a huge detailed beautiful mural of the neighborhood. Way better than any poster or painting that I would’ve bought at a thrift store.
That sounds lovely and I’d love a mural and to support a local artist, but sadly this isn’t an option for me. I don’t have empty walls. I have stone walls with a lot of texture and uneven surfaces.
Unless you are very set on having something to hang on your wall, I would suggest a globe. It’s much more geographically accurate and more fun to use.
I’m looking for a wall map, but I’ll take globe recommendations too! I haven’t found affordable large globes either.
You can sometimes find nice globes second-hand. I picked up a cool USSR era one at a thrift store a few years ago.
Really good idea, I have a globe on desk since like 2014 and it really fits nicely and doesn’t take space
Oh I had a similar need on a wall in my classroom at work.
I ended up borrowing a projector and projecting a map onto the space, and then letting students paint it in.
Might be more work than you’d like, but throwing it in as an option if you can’t find a suitable map
Doesn’t even have mountains.
I know, I live there
