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  #31  
Old May 31st, 2008, 02:31 AM posted to rec.travel.asia
Srki
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William Black wrote:
"Srki" 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.


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Old May 31st, 2008, 02:33 AM posted to rec.travel.asia
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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.
  #33  
Old May 31st, 2008, 04:03 AM posted to rec.travel.asia
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"William Black" wrote in message
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"grusl" wrote in message
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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've seem them recently, they're now available in the UK.

Have you used them at all?


Yes, I use the city maps all the time. Most drivers know their way around
but having a map helps to guide them to more obscure places (I used it to
help get to Nrityagram, the Odissi dance village outside Bangalore last
week). As I'm sure you've noticed, Indian drivers don't generally read maps.

Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore



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Old May 31st, 2008, 01:10 PM posted to rec.travel.asia
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"grusl" wrote in message
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"William Black" wrote in message
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"grusl" wrote in message
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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've seem them recently, they're now available in the UK.

Have you used them at all?


Yes, I use the city maps all the time. Most drivers know their way around
but having a map helps to guide them to more obscure places (I used it to
help get to Nrityagram, the Odissi dance village outside Bangalore last
week). As I'm sure you've noticed, Indian drivers don't generally read
maps.


The word 'maps' in the sentence above is unnecessary...

Good story...

Once when going to the outskirts of Bombay we were about to turn right
through an underpass and my wife, in Hindi, said to the cab driver:

"Turn left, didn't you read the sign?"

The reply was, to me, a classic of Indian wit, reflecting so many of the
aspects of Indian society I find entertaining.

"Look madam, if I could read I wouldn't be driving this cab..."

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.



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Old May 31st, 2008, 07:02 PM posted to rec.travel.asia
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But there's no lack of roads...



Good said.

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Old June 4th, 2008, 06:16 AM posted to rec.travel.asia
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On May 30, 1:45*pm, 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.


All about the Eicher Road Atlas

http://maps.eicherworld.com/about.as...&toplink=India

Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore
  #37  
Old June 4th, 2008, 06:31 AM posted to rec.travel.asia
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On May 31, 1:08*am, Markku Grönroos wrote:
"grusl" kirjoitti
.. .

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.

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.

Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore




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Old June 4th, 2008, 08:51 AM posted to rec.travel.asia
Markku Grönroos
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"grusl" kirjoitti
...
On May 31, 1:08 am, Markku Grönroos wrote:
"grusl" kirjoitti
.. .

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.
__________________________________________________ _________________

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.
__________________________________________________ ______


I don't follow. This last comment of yours hardly is anything important.

  #39  
Old June 4th, 2008, 09:09 AM posted to rec.travel.asia
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In article cff925b2-25f2-4600-ba56-6b7d299f8965
@b5g2000pri.googlegroups.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.
--

Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe
  #40  
Old June 4th, 2008, 09:17 AM posted to rec.travel.asia
Markku Grönroos
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"Alfred Molon" kirjoitti
s.com...
In article cff925b2-25f2-4600-ba56-6b7d299f8965
@b5g2000pri.googlegroups.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.
--

Our friend is a bit outdated. He is still using the originals of the
Mercator maps for Monaco.

 




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