Spanish maps
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jay clock
Massive member
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- Hampshire UK
The Zoom ones from Michelin at 1:130k are amazing . Only cover tiny parts of Spain but you might be in luck!
This one https://www.amazon.co.uk/Valencia-C...910507&sr=8-24&keywords=michelin+map+of+spain
This https://www.amazon.co.uk/Costa-Blan...910493&sr=8-10&keywords=michelin+map+of+spain
and this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michelin-Z...preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
Not certain if they all link up, but they may well help.. Next ones up are 1:400k and too vague but what I have used anyway!
This one https://www.amazon.co.uk/Valencia-C...910507&sr=8-24&keywords=michelin+map+of+spain
This https://www.amazon.co.uk/Costa-Blan...910493&sr=8-10&keywords=michelin+map+of+spain
and this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michelin-Z...preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
Not certain if they all link up, but they may well help.. Next ones up are 1:400k and too vague but what I have used anyway!
Dave Davenport
Guru
- Location
- Hampshire
I generally hate shopping, but I could mooch around Standfords for hours.
Bodhbh
Guru
Just come back from a trip to Aragon and was in Galicia last year. It was a right pain in the ass to source good maps 'on the ground' both trips. These were for hiking, not cycling, so ripping sheets out a road atlas from the petrol station wasn't an option. Wish I'd broke up the journies en route to the airport to spend half an hour in Stanfords.
Dave Davenport
Guru
- Location
- Hampshire
I've always used the Michelin regional maps in Spain, although they're between 1:250k & 1:400k the Spanish road network is pretty sparse and I've never felt the need for anything more detailed for cycling.
I'm slap bang in the middle of 148, Costa Daurada. It usually ends up that one is on the edge of 2 maps.
I'll order that one. Cheers Jay
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
Looks like you're sorted now Rich, but just for info I used sheets from a Michelin 1:300,000 road atlas for touring across the country. The scale was perfectly good enough for the sort of route finding I needed, but might have been less good for someone staying in one place wanting to know every local byway, especially unsurfaced ones (if that's your thing).
Are you going to be on the coast or further inland? I loved the mountainous areas inland north of Valencia.
Are you going to be on the coast or further inland? I loved the mountainous areas inland north of Valencia.
Cheers Rob. That's the sort of thing I used for touring too.
I'm going to be 5 miles from the coast, into the hills. Halfway between Barca and Valencia and just doing a couple of hours a day rides from our base, while the sloths I'm going with crawl out of the pit.
I run an Explorer Scout Unit (Scouts 15-18 yrs)
I frequently get the excuse of "The Map was Wrong"
From 17 year olds navigating through Snowdonia
The only place where I will fully accept this excuse is Spain.
Many moons ago (late 1970's) three of us trekked for 3 weeks across the Pyrenees
We found a road that did not exist on the map, that took us to a large lake, not on the map, where we camped benith a major mountain, not on the map, and then got pissed in a small village, yes, you guessed it, the Taverna was on the map!
However, it gave us the chance to name these major items after ourselves, this explains some odd Anglo-Saxon naming conventions in the remote sections of the Pyrenees.
I frequently get the excuse of "The Map was Wrong"
From 17 year olds navigating through Snowdonia
The only place where I will fully accept this excuse is Spain.
Many moons ago (late 1970's) three of us trekked for 3 weeks across the Pyrenees
We found a road that did not exist on the map, that took us to a large lake, not on the map, where we camped benith a major mountain, not on the map, and then got pissed in a small village, yes, you guessed it, the Taverna was on the map!
However, it gave us the chance to name these major items after ourselves, this explains some odd Anglo-Saxon naming conventions in the remote sections of the Pyrenees.
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
Sounds good. If my impressions around Valencia are anything to go by you won't be alone - I saw loads of groups of cyclists of different nationalities whizzing round the roads of the coastal belt, and on some pretty good, wide cycle paths too. Have fun.
