Comments on: Where Have the Maps Gone? http://www.triporati.com/blog/2008/08/24/where-have-the-maps-gone/ Sharing stories about the world and travel Sun, 19 May 2013 19:28:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Janelle http://www.triporati.com/blog/2008/08/24/where-have-the-maps-gone/#comment-31 Janelle Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:43:23 +0000 http://www.triporati.com/blog/?p=189#comment-31 I love a good map, and always think of Joey Tribbiani from Friends who had to "get inside the map" of London to really understand it. But fortunately, National Geographic Magazin has a great Map of the Day feature on their website: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day I love a good map, and always think of Joey Tribbiani from Friends who had to “get inside the map” of London to really understand it. But fortunately, National Geographic Magazin has a great Map of the Day feature on their website:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day

]]> By: David Stanley http://www.triporati.com/blog/2008/08/24/where-have-the-maps-gone/#comment-20 David Stanley Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:19:10 +0000 http://www.triporati.com/blog/?p=189#comment-20 Newspapers, magazines, printed travel guidebooks - they're all feeling the heat of competition from the internet. Google maps are great, but I agree with Flinn that there's no substitute for a high quality paper map. And what you can print out for free from the web isn't at all as good as an AAA road map. While we're on the subject of maps, I have a funny story from the days when I was the author of Lonely Planet's Eastern Europe on a Shoestring. The security-conscious Soviet Union used to include deliberate mistakes in their street maps, to confound potential invaders I suppose. In preparing the maps for the guidebook, it was always a real chore trying to identify the disinformation in Soviet and some Eastern European maps. Virtually every map of Moscow would lead you into blind alleys! Newspapers, magazines, printed travel guidebooks - they’re all feeling the heat of competition from the internet. Google maps are great, but I agree with Flinn that there’s no substitute for a high quality paper map. And what you can print out for free from the web isn’t at all as good as an AAA road map.

While we’re on the subject of maps, I have a funny story from the days when I was the author of Lonely Planet’s Eastern Europe on a Shoestring. The security-conscious Soviet Union used to include deliberate mistakes in their street maps, to confound potential invaders I suppose. In preparing the maps for the guidebook, it was always a real chore trying to identify the disinformation in Soviet and some Eastern European maps. Virtually every map of Moscow would lead you into blind alleys!

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