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I bought paper maps of most every country I went to - I like them ;-)
Mostly I searched amazon and also Stanfords the good map shop in central London, UK. stanfords.co.uk
I then had a guide book from Bradt for each country - they are the best for Africa generally, but also have good maps from the authors, these were often the best maps for local areas: Bradt Travel Guides - you can order them from a distributer in south Africa as well...
Then get tracks for africa on your gps, along with the free world mapping thing as they cover big cities in far too much detail. Welcome to Tracks4Africa
For South Africa and Namibia, you can buy good maps down there…
Good luck, and happy map porn ;-)
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Stanfords.co.uk is a good source.
Someone recommended me Reise-Know-How Verlag / Rough Guide Maps (apparently the same thing, though the latter are twice the price).
I want to buy maps for Chile, Argentina, and Peru, but not sure -- National Geographic maps go for around 6 quid each on Amazon --
Has anyone had any experiences of them? I'll probably just go for the Reise maps, unless someone can recommend the NatGeo ones.
Cheers,
RTW
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No one map series was good for every country, and paper maps of Africa are pretty old and somewhat useless, even before the Chinese started building roads in the last 10 years. But nice to have and useful to a point...
So mix and match gps/digital/online with paper…
Reise-Know-How are good because they are made from a tough wax type paper if I remember correctly… And being German they perhaps have more care and attention going in to their accuracy…..??
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Stanfords.co.uk is a good source.
Someone recommended me Reise-Know-How Verlag / Rough Guide Maps (apparently the same thing, though the latter are twice the price).
I want to buy maps for Chile, Argentina, and Peru, but not sure -- National Geographic maps go for around 6 quid each on Amazon --
Has anyone had any experiences of them? I'll probably just go for the Reise maps, unless someone can recommend the NatGeo ones.
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I'm a fan of Reise-Know-How maps. I have a full set for all of South America. They even have some roads on them that are not on any gps maps. Water and tear proof. In addition to them there is a route atlas in Argentina called Atlas de Rutas Firestone. It's updated every year and it is excellent.
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