Street Maps

[ade1982]

Hi all,

 

We are booked to go on a cruise in Sept. I am looking for street maps that I can print for the following places (or all of them!), preferably for free. I have a laser printer that can go up to A3.

 

Cartagena (Spain), Gibraltar, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Cadiz, Vigo, Lisbon

 

TIA!

[Dcoy]

Have you tried Google Maps?

 

Don

[John Bull]

Googlemaps/satellite will do the job perfectly well until you arrive, when there's usually no problem picking up free leaflets/maps. Hop-on bus route maps are ideal (some are on the internet) cos you can figure which parts of a city are worth visiting. Here's an example

http://bcnshop.barcelonaturisme.com/imgfiles/ecv/bbt/planol_BBT_2013.pdf

 

The exception is Gib because apart from the area around the cruise terminal / harbour / Main Street / airport (all very flat), maps are mis-leading due to the steep hillside. eg what appears to be two adjacent & parallel roads can actually be one a hundred feet or more above the other, & no access between unless your name is Chris Bonnington. ;)

 

JB :)

[cherylandtk]

Switch to Terrain View in Google Maps, it works fine for hills and mountains.

[donaldsc]

Hi all,

 

We are booked to go on a cruise in Sept. I am looking for street maps that I can print for the following places (or all of them!), preferably for free. I have a laser printer that can go up to A3.

 

Cartagena (Spain), Gibraltar, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Cadiz, Vigo, Lisbon

 

TIA!

 

Buy the maps. If you spend $10 per map and the cruise is costing say $6000 for the 2 of you, the map costs are 1.17% of the total trip cost.

 

DON

[Krazy Kruizers]

I would rather just buy the maps and save time hunting what you want on the Internet.

[Bogof1]

On our last cruise we were given maps of all the ports we went to. They were printed in the port information leaflet.

[1025cruise]

On our last cruise we were given maps of all the ports we went to. They were printed in the port information leaflet.

 

And this would be the first map I wouldn't use. It will highlight who has paid to be listed there.

[cb at sea]

Get a guidebook that includes maps! Many of the do have detailed maps! Get thee to a bookstore!

[trish1c]

And this would be the first map I wouldn't use. It will highlight who has paid to be listed there.

 

 

The street layouts don't change just because vendors paid to have their locations highlighted.

[1025cruise]

No, but the scale does to highlight the vendors that have paid.

[Bogof1]

And this would be the first map I wouldn't use. It will highlight who has paid to be listed there.

 

Maybe however tourist info offices always marked also the main attractions in the area. We also took our own guide books but the ships map was also very good. Use the port info here on CC as well there are lots of hints.

[PennyAgain]

If you print your own maps they are going to be too small in detail to do you much good unless you print section by section.

 

I prefer to use iPhone apps that do not require an internet connection while in use.

[donaldsc]

On our last cruise we were given maps of all the ports we went to. They were printed in the port information leaflet.

 

The free maps you get from the ships are worse than useless as they are not to scale and inaccurate. In inaccurate map is much worse than no map at all.

 

One other possible solution. If you have a tablet, there are lots of aps out there that let you download some very good maps that are available for off line use. That said, I still prefer good paper maps.

 

DON