Er well no the idea was to avoid them! Shouldn't be too hard though, what with Melbourne being about as flat as Holland. Mind you I like the occasional small or medium hill, to break the monotony and to get a view of something.

Do you mean the road that runs by Upper Ferntree Gully? Yes that *is* steep, even the car baulked a bit!

great, you can drop it into me when you fly out, i live by the nec

I've been to Coventry a few times, always hoping to see a lady on horseback but no such luck!

Mark, 18 maps for cyclists from VicRoads:

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/vrne/...%5BCyclists%5D

Google also shows much better results if you enter "Melbourne maps" rather than "Melbourne map". Plenty of retailers in the results who will sell maps.

OzTennis

eg:
http://www.bcl.com.au/melbourne/about/maps.htm

OzTennis

Hmmm, that link seems broken (at the moment). But if you mean the PDFs, then yup, thanks, found those. Actually I find them rather hard to read, or at least to correlate with street/suburb names. Also no contour info.

Oh, before anyone mentions it, yes I know about the Bicycle Victoria website. No maps there (except links to vicroads).

Curse you, I'm going to have sacrifice serious browsing time to that site now! Waaaaagh!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by OzTennis
I've been to Coventry a few times, always hoping to see a lady on horseback but no such luck!


statue of lady godiva in the centre. next closest to a horse in the area i worked in would have been a can of dog food

Yep, it is the pdf's.

OzTennis

Try this link;

www.dse.vic.gov.au

select interactive maps then on the new page select the `catchment and watermapper`.

This will provide you with a digital GIS (Geographical Information Systems) map that is used by the Victoria Government and Local Councils. Using the hatch/cursor you are able to zoom in on any area (not just melbourne) within the state. As it is a GIS you can decide to turn off or on certain layers such as roads, rivers etc. For you guys the most useful aspect is the `places` layer which identifies the location of all the surburbs. You can then see which roads connect to them parkland areas etc.

Unfortunately you cant zoom in to distinguish house plots etc, roads are shown but not their names.

Hope its useful.. happy mapping.

cheers

Scott
p.s this is an icon to download to pdf file and print in colour as well!

Hmmm, like so many things it's geared to IE and doesn't work well on Opera (e.g. no layer info or toggles, no rubber-banding feedback). Why don't people *test* things properly? Grrrr... It's still fun but there's no contour info alas (despite its claims); either that or they're too coarse to show up in relatively flat Melbourne.

But no doubt I'll manage to waste time on it enjoyably! Thanks!

I can't get the first map to load - or at least I haven't got the patience to wait, too many users on the system! My brother is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at Monash University so I'll email him and ask if he can point me to topographic maps, maps of Melbourne and suburbs etc online. Watch this space in a day or two!

OzTennis

I hope nobody is waiting for me to jump to the defence of Coventry!! Why do you think I'm emigrating

The thing which struck me most about Coventry is how many people had emigrated to there - and I still didn't see the lady in the b**f on the horse (real not statue).

OzTennis

i've recommended it several times to people on here.
I coulnt live without my Melway and the online version was pretty useful too

[QUOTE]Originally posted by HiddenPaw
i've recommended it several times to people on here.



phew, for a minute there i though you meant living in coventry, or worse still riding b**f on a horse!

look forward to you recommending it again, because i can't get the other one to work either