I haven't yet found anything equivalent to OS inch to the mile (1:50,000??) - what's the nearest anyone's found?

My OH's biggest gripe, there is no real good equivalent.

He ended up with some military maps & they were a big dodgy.

The whole of Spain is available on recent, digitised 1:25000 maps.

There are details on this site http://www.cnig.es:8081/visir2/visualizador.asp

look at the Mtn25 range.

They are available from the CNIG shops. Look at the main website http://www.cnig.es/

Brain scramble - which is that, bigger scale ie fewer miles to the inch, or vice versa? And what are CNIG shops? Thanks

That's cool! Thanks!

They are the shops that sell the CNIG maps.

Look on the website that I gave you the link to.

Doh! Thanks

I must have a look at that. I was once in a mountain resort in Austria where someone had put on a display. They had taken an OS map of the area, cut round each contour line, and then glued each piece onto a sheet of material (looked like thin polystyrene sheet) and then glued them all back on top of each other. The result was a map with an exaggerated vertical displacement, which was visually impressive, as well as enabling one to easily grasp the geography of the area. I always fancied doing something similar, but could never see a map of Andalucia with contours.

The Militay mapping mentioned before does have contours and I find it very good for what it has but it is not very up to date. For instance the A49 stops at Huelva on the copy I have of Ayamonte and that was a long time ago!

Hopefully the contours are the same, eh?

I think the hills and valleys have been around a bit longer than the motorways but I suppose for CE there will be some differences.

I don't know if this can serve to you...

http://www.bartholomewmaps.com/times...xtent_2003.jpg

Dependant on what area I would try the Editorial Alpina series, as they are regularly updated and very good for walkers. Apart from that the Military maps are quite good for topography, but they are severely outdated. Still there is nothing in Spain that has the same quality as the UK OS maps.


http://www.stanfords.co.uk/stock/spa...-walking-maps/

Yes, I've got some from Stanfords but as you say not a patch on OS.... still haven't checked out the Bartholomews or CNIG links, though.

I believe that if there are maps of quality, what happens is that it is necessary to locate these maps, because there are maps of many varieties: topographical, political, physical...

Another very good alternative I believe that it would be also the program " Google Earth "