India maps

William Black wrote:
> "Srki" <sgraovac@inet.hr> wrote in message
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>> Srki wrote:
>>> I am looking for sam booklet map of india so it can be used page by page,
>>> any recomendations? It's also good if it has samo tourist place briefings
>>> but not necessery.
>>> any amazon recomendations?
>>>
>>> Thanx
>>> S.
>> It's lika an afternoon gossip when i just wanted a sugestion. How do i use
>> google earth in india anyway, looking for a cyber bar every time i need
>> it. Some camera, objectives and a laptop i enough, i just wanted some
>> paper format map for a rough guide.
>
> The easy answer is that there isn't a decent one.
>
> You can get a map showing the roads between the cities, but the city maps
> are invariably useless.

That's basicly what I need because I want to stay there for a month or
maybe longer , not in the same city and i need some kind of map just to
plan a train rides, romaning city to city it's good to know city names,
atleast for booking a train ticket.
:)

I was already there in winter '07., now i want to go south more, and
thenm back north up to Delhi.




> My solution is to hire a car with a driver when we get somewhere. The
> driver you hire will usually know their way around the place.
>

Riksah are my choice, going 40-50mph avoiding other cars/camels with no
door and you have only two hands so you wonder do you hold your bags or
you hold yourself so you don't dropout.

:)

>>
> Perhaps one could make one him/herself. What's the target? New Delhi?
> Jaipur? Bombay?

I don't think city maps are of big use because in all India I haven't
seen a table with streetname on it.... Not to mention the house numbers.

>
> But there's no lack of roads...
>


Good said.
:D

"Alfred Molon" <alfred_molon@yahoo.com> kirjoitti
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> In article <cff925b2-25f2-4600-ba56-6b7d299f8965
> @b5g2000pri.************.com>, grusl says...
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>> There is no national street atlas of any country - except maybe Monaco
>> - and you well know it.
>
> I have one for Germany here.
> --
>
Our friend is a bit outdated. He is still using the originals of the
Mercator maps for Monaco.

"grusl" <george.w.russell@**********> kirjoitti
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On Jun 4, 1:09 pm, Alfred Molon <alfred_mo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In article <cff925b2-25f2-4600-ba56-6b7d299f8965
> @b5g2000pri.************.com>, grusl says...
>
> > There is no national street atlas of any country - except maybe Monaco
> > - and you well know it.
>
> I have one for Germany here.

The Finn estimated an Indian national street directory would have
10,000 pages for 3.3 million km2. Presumably, Germany being about a
tenth of the size, it has about 1000 pages?

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I was talking about road atlases being accurate enough for inter city road
navigation. 1:200.000 are pretty good. All Nordic countries are projected by
such maps (supposedly Denmark is very easy in this respect). For instance I
have a Michelin copy in scale 1:200.000 covering all of France (around
550.000 square kilometres). It is rather thick....... I have seen Germany
being projected in scale 1:130.000. Austria and Switzerland as well. Finland
is covered by maps in scale 1:20.000. The main target isn't the motorists.
It could be a bit clumsy and expensive to use them. They come in about 4000
sheets........

"grusl" <george.w.russell@**********> kirjoitti
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On Jun 4, 4:03 pm, Markku Grönroos <kur...@hassuserveri.fi> wrote:

[snip directions from High Court to Bangalore City RS]

They would indeed be your main walking options. The maps I use are
just as detailed; pretty much every building except houses is marked.
The map has a grid and a scale so I can figure out the distance.
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If we went a bit out from the city centre, this wouldn't be the case any
more. For instance your map doesn't project the Nagashettyhalli bus stand on
D Rajkopal Road at (13.04173, 77.57258) as Fjodor would put it. Very
important a detail. Many visitors to town use the bus stop.

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On Jun 4, 5:06 pm, Markku Grönroos <kur...@hassuserveri.fi> wrote:
> "grusl" <george.w.russ...@**********> kirjoitti
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> On Jun 4, 4:03 pm, Markku Grönroos <kur...@hassuserveri.fi> wrote:
>
> [snip directions from High Court to Bangalore City RS]
>
> They would indeed be your main walking options. The maps I use are
> just as detailed; pretty much every building except houses is marked.
> The map has a grid and a scale so I can figure out the distance.
> __________________________________________________ ________________
>
> If we went a bit out from the city centre, this wouldn't be the case any
> more. For instance your map doesn't project the Nagashettyhalli bus stand
> on
> D Rajkopal Road at (13.04173, 77.57258) as Fjodor would put it. Very
> important a detail. Many visitors to town use the bus stop.

In lovely downtown Hebbal? It's a dot on the BMTC map, with full
instructions on using the line. Most buses have Kannada-only
signboards so it's good to take the map with you.

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It isn't in that map of yours we are talking about. The map in scale
1:12500.

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>The BMTC map comes with the directory. It's a foldout, like the
>Underground map with the London A-Z
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Yes but it is a different map. Moreover you need tons of different maps. It
becomes very expensive to purchase them all. For instance you don't know by
studying your stock of paper maps which street Dontad street joins with at
it's northern end in Mumbai.

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> "Markku Grönroos" <kurkku@hassuserveri.fi> wrote in message
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>>
>> Yes but it is a different map. Moreover you need tons of different maps.
>> It becomes very expensive to purchase them all. For instance you don't
>> know by studying your stock of paper maps which street Dontad street
>> joins with at it's northern end in Mumbai.
>
> People who live there and speak English call it Bombay.
>
They call it Mumbai too. Just as a Northern European state can be referred
to by names other than Suomi. Zum Beispiel als Finnland.

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>> "William Black" <william.black@hotmail.co.uk> kirjoitti
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>>> "Markku Grönroos" <kurkku@hassuserveri.fi> wrote in message
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>>>>
>>>> Yes but it is a different map. Moreover you need tons of different
>>>> maps. It becomes very expensive to purchase them all. For instance you
>>>> don't know by studying your stock of paper maps which street Dontad
>>>> street joins with at it's northern end in Mumbai.
>>>
>>> People who live there and speak English call it Bombay.
>>>
>> They call it Mumbai too.
>
> Not that I've noticed.
>
You haven't studied this thread lately?