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Old June 4th, 2008, 08:51 AM posted to rec.travel.asia
Markku Grönroos
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"grusl" kirjoitti
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On May 31, 1:08 am, Markku Grönroos wrote:
"grusl" kirjoitti
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Anyways ... Eicher publishes a perfectly good national road map of
India,
regional road maps, and also do street directories of the five major
cities. Widely available in bookstores.


I guess the OP declined the street directories as useless. In which scale
this national road map comes? Knowing that the geographic size of India is
around 3.3 million square kilometres, the street atlas supposedly comes
with
at least ten thousand sheets. Otherwise it can be described as "perfect"
but
hardly as "detailed". Digital maps come to rescue. What about google
m.....?


There is no national street atlas of any country - except maybe Monaco
- and you well know it.
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In digital form there is.



The Eicher India Road Atlas scale ranges from 1:750,000 to
1:1,200,000. Eicher City maps of Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Chennai and
Bangalore are 4cm to 500m, which is what, 1:12,500

It's perfectly useful. This GPS thing is a huge wank by the consumer-
electronics gadget industry.
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I don't follow. This last comment of yours hardly is anything important.