Screenshot of the map of Invader street art mosaics in Paris

A map of Space Invader mosaics in cities around the world. Click below to jump directly to each location. Cities with 100+ mosaics:

  • Paris 🇫🇷, 1500+ mosaics
  • Los Angeles 🇺🇸, 214 mosaics
  • New York 🇺🇸, 192 mosaics
  • London 🇬🇧, 162 mosaics
  • Hong Kong 🇭🇰, 129 mosaics
  • Tokyo 🇯🇵, 123 mosaics

All other locations:

Aix-en-Provence , Amsterdam , Antwerp , Anzère , Avignon , Bangkok , Barcelona , Basel , Bastia , Berlin , Bern , Bilbao , Brussels , Cancun , Cap Ferret , Charleroi , Clermont-Ferrand , Cologne , Contis-Les-Bains , Côte d’Azur , Daejeon , Dijon , Djerba , Eilat , Faro , Fontainebleu , Forcalquier , Frankfurt , Geneva , Grenoble , Grude , Halmstad , Istanbul , Kathmandu , La Ciotat , Lausanne , Lille , Ljubljana , Luberon , Lyon , Málaga , Manchester , Marrakesh , Marseille , Melbourne , Menorca , Miami , Mombasa , Montauban , Montpellier , Munich , Nantes , Newcastle , Nîmes , Noordwijk , Pau , Perpignan , Perth , Potosi , Rabat , Ravenna , Redu , Rennes , Réunion , Rome , Rotterdam , San Diego , São Paulo , Toulouse , Valmorel , Varanasi , Versailles , Vienna Visby ,

Wait, what?

The map shows approximate locations of street art mosaics made by the artist Invader . There are over 4000 mosaics in 80+ different places, including Paris 🇫🇷 (over 1000 mosaics!), New York, Berlin, London and Bangkok.

The mosaics can be scanned in the official Flash Invaders app . When you find a new mosaic, you get points and you get to hear a triumphant melody.

The official Flash Invaders app

This mapping project is not affiliated with the author of the mosaics (or with the Flash Invaders app). It’s available on the web for free, with no promises about data quality or completness.

Doesn’t using a map spoil the fun?

Potentially! Whether to use a map like this or not is a personal preference (and for some, a question of ethics, morality and fair play :)).

To keep the search interesting, the map only shows approximate location of each mosaic. The marker on the map is placed in a random location within 10m of the location in our database (which may contain further imprecisions).

The pnote map of flash invaders displayed on a phone held in hand, a location marker indicates the current location

Features

Mosaic status

The map displays a status of each mosaic: OK / damaged / destroyed. Note that a mosaic that is “destroyed” today may be reactivated in the future. (You can read more about the fascinating world of the “reactivators” in the New Yorker profile devoted to Invader and the invaders-spotting community.)

Mark as flashed

You can mark each mosaic as flashed, which will make it appear as grayed out in the map. The list of flashed mosaics is stored locally in your browser. You can download and back it up yourself (and restore from backup) by clicking on “Settings”.

The popup in the app with a button to mark an invader as flashed

Filtering

You can hide the mosaics you already flashed (and the ones that are not flashable) by selecting “Hide flashed and not flashable” in Settings.

Map of the space invader mosaics in Paris with many mosaics marked as flashed

👾 Default view

Map of the space invader mosaics in Paris with the mosaics that are flashed hidden which makes the remaining ones easier to see

🎯 Filtered view

Hints

Just for fun, the map displays fun facts and trivia about some of the mosaics and their locations.

Fun fact (trivia) displayed about some of the mosaics.

Contributions

If you want to help develop the map by correcting errors, adding missing mosaics or contributing fun facts (hints), you can send us a CSV file in the following format: id,lat,lng,hint.

For example:

id,lat,lng,hint
PA_02,48.8610739,2.3503834,

To find the geo coordinates of a location, you can right click on it in the web/computer version of Google Maps.

Example of how to copy geo coords from Google maps from a pop up menu after right clicking on invader location

Contributions are welcome via email: invaders [at] (domain of this website). Thanks!

Version history

  • October 2024: added new invaders in Paris, thanks to Thibault
  • July 2024: changed the tileset to OpenSteetMap with a grayscale filter, fixing the issue with tiles missing in some geo areas and detailed zoom levels
  • June 2024: added clustering at low zoom levels, data quality fixes
  • April 2024: added most missing mosaics! Thanks to Tim for helping to complete the coverage 🙌. Data quality fixes. Filtering the map to only show flashable mosaics.
  • March 2024: the map now supports deep linking: the position and zoom level are stored in the URL fragment; data quality fixes
  • February 2024: new status “hidden” for Invaders covered with plants, scaffoldings, etc; added the first 100 mosaics in London; data quality fixes
  • January 2024: new features: tracking which mosaics are flashed, trivia/hints for some mosaics, all locations are now approximate (random within 10m radius from the actual location)
  • December 2023: data quality fixes in Paris, updated mosaic status
  • November 2023: initial version .

Credits

This map is not the first one of its kind. There is an unofficial paid iOS app with a very detailed map covering multiple cities. The artist himself has published books and print maps before. Other unofficial digital maps of varying quality and completness can be found online.

See this post with more context on why I made this map.

The map integrates data from various sources, including:

  • contributions from the users. Thank you to Tim, Michel, Alexander, Janet, Frédéric, Tom, Thibault, Laurent and others!
  • Space Oddity : addresses for the mosaics in Paris
  • Invader Spotter : tracking the status of each mosaic (OK / damaged / destroyed)
  • Invaded Map : a beautiful and comprehensive map

The tech stack:

Other pointers:

Conclusion

Hope you find this map of space invader mosaics handy. Happy hunting!