3549 good maps - 1:50,000

Hi,

Anyone else having trouble getting decent maps of Italy?

I'm trying to get some topographic maps at a large scale (1:50,000 or even 1:25,000) and although they're all "in print" none of the stores I've approached can get them.

I see you can get them direct from the Istituto Geografico Militare (Italian Ordnance Survey) but they don't like to deliver out of Italy.

Anyone with better experiences?

The maps I want are for the south (Salerno, Cilento) it looks like maps for areas in the north might be easier to get?

IIOH

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Travel & Holiday Advice

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 05/05/2006 - 16:08

Those "military" maps are seriously out of date. The best source (and they are good) for 1:50,000 is a company called Kompass - based (as I recall) in Bolzano, and obtainable in London (to order) at some fancy map shop near Covent Garden: the coverage is by no means complete, (tell me which area you need one for and I'll have a look at the back of one of mine)...........but having said that, Google have basically done it all for the Italian peninsular, have a look at the member's map!!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 05/05/2006 - 16:19

Sorry - just read your post properly - Kompass do not seem to go very far south, but try

[url]http://www.maps-store.it/[/url]

ane perhaps you will be able to find an ISBN number for something useful, which you could order outside Italy!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 05/05/2006 - 18:42

Kompass are great but they only cover the territory coveted by Austria :D

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 05/06/2006 - 00:26

We have a stack of 1:50000 maps that we use regularly for walking and find them excellent. I don't know if it's a regional thing but ours are published by Edizioni Multigraphic Srl, Via A Corelli 55, 50127 Firenze, Tel 0554 12908, fax 0554 35274. I note it says below, "dai tipi dell'instituto geografico militare" and were drawn up in 1960! But in all the years we've followed them (15+ now) the footpaths haven't changed. We buy ours from local newsagents but surely the famous map shop, what is, Stanfords(?) in London would have them too? V