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Local working-class heroes and a major hometown industry of olive cultivation are effortlessly co-opted to appeal both to out-of-towners visiting this gas station in Valencia, Spain who seek a taste of the countryside (albeit through purchasing potato chips as opposed to visiting an olive plantation but hey, who has time for that these days?). I wonder how many locals also buy these crisps, though, casting a vote for the perpetuation of their livelihood through the apparent benevolence of a multinational food conglomerate supporting their local trade. How many localities besides this particular rural Spanish gas station stock these "artisan-crafted chips"? A nice effort, nonetheless, right down to the burlap-style detailing on the front of the bag.

For stoves and cars

There are certain inferences we could make about the neighborhood surrounding this gas station in suburban Seville, Spain. Such inferences might include the types of fuel predominately used to heat local homes, the availability of said fuels, and changes in ability/willingness of homeowners with stove-heated homes to personally go out and collect fuel vs. drive to purchase  pre-collected fuel. The gap in knowledge of an old home's new owner as to source of fuelwood could also contribute, as could the increasing scarcity of local fuelwood.

Is this gas station's decision to stock firewood forward-looking or backward-looking? Is this a lag indicative of an economic recession, with a shortage in money leading to residents heating their homes using wood (assuming it is more affordable than their previous means of heating)? If so, savings must be considerable, as one uses up a not-insignificant amount of time and money driving oneself to the gas station (if the trip is solely to pick up firewood, that is). 

The gas station's evolving role as a hub for all manner of fuels, and assumptions about share of local, repeat customers versus journeying, drive-by customers.

Granada Graffiti

Particularly fond of how the bird capitalizes upon / is sensitive to the urban infrastructure, in contrast to the man with outstretched arms.

Lottery display norms

In Seville, a camera tripod functions as a means of displaying lottery tickets sold on sidewalks.

Service advertising norms

Brightly colored, circular stickers advertise mostly for locksmiths ("cerrajeros") on every spare urban-infrastructure-as-advertising-platform. Encouraging adjectives include "fast and cheap", "professional and cheap", etc. Multiple iterations of the same sticker are sometimes within inches of each another on the very same piece of urban infrastructure - technicolor service-spam.

Beer-box-bike(-brand)

Some of Seville's public bicycles have been charitably modified/upgraded to better suit particular carrying purposes, in turn affecting the desirability of these particular bikes as compared to the unmodified bikes depending upon the nature of your cargo. 

This goes back to the wisdom of making multipurpose, durable, easily reconfigured/mounted containers, and proves that it applies to both resource-constrained contexts as well as less severely constrained ones (although as I type this, Spain may be sliding down a slippery slope towards increasing resource constraint with the unemployment rate charging towards 25%). Though there is the risk of your container being repurposed into some undesirable/unappealing role, the very fact that your container is being recycled at all and saving someone from having to purchase or create a new container will garner your brand points. Hat tip to Cerveza Cruzcampo, and their sturdy, branded containers that will carry their brand further and wider than any billboard or TV spot.

Here-ish

The creators of this map overlooked the human impulse to want to physically touch their abstract location - perhaps for comfort, perhaps for emphasis, perhaps for certainty (or perhaps all three factors). The lack of planning for that impulse happens to yield interesting data on the most common route, as well as the most common destination. There is the resulting consequence of a "gap" in spatial knowledge, with the relevant information having slipped away on so many eager fingertips. The sacrifice of functionality clearly imparts lessons about the process of public map design, however. In every mistake, a potential lesson.