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William Black wrote:
"Srki" wrote in message ... 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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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. |
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"William Black" wrote in message ... "grusl" wrote in message ... 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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"grusl" wrote in message ... "William Black" wrote in message ... "grusl" wrote in message ... 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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But there's no lack of roads... Good said. |
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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 |
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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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"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. |
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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 |
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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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