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Online Maps

  • Michelin’s ViaMichelin.com for general maps of Europe, quite accurate for France (less so for Switzerland, Italy, and other countries). Also has “good” satellite views (not in Switzerland, but see map.search.ch).
  • French IGN maps of France and territories (now works very well).
  • Austrian maps Austrian Map online (only supports certain versions of the Java plug-in, but lately works on the Mac (very poorly) as well as many Windows PCs with the right plug-in installed).
  • Switzerland maps at Swissgeo are probably the best freely available maps online of a specific country, they work best at Veloland though.
  • Switzerland maps at map.search.ch has other information and good satellite views, which ViaMichelin lacks here.
  • Liechtenstein maps are available at the government portal.
  • Slovenian maps at NVAtlas.
  • IGN maps of Spain covers all of Spain.
  • Another Spanish IGN maps portal CNIG which really only works, and then poorly, in Windows.
  • Northeast Spain (Catalonia) maps at Catalonia Online are good.
  • Other maps of Catalonia at Hipermapa are also good.
  • Maps of Navarra, Spain.
  • Maps of Andorra. Use Firefox to download the pdf files.
  • Italian IGM maps (VERY OLD 1:25000 maps) and newer (but less interesting) 1:250000 maps.
  • Maps of the Cuneo region of Piemonte, Italy.
  • There are also maps of the Torino region of Piemonte, which are a bit tricky to use (it does not work on either Mac or PC systems right now as far as I can make out). (There are regional maps of nearly every area in Italy like these, but they all have in common that they are (very) difficult to use and difficult to find on the regional pages. Aosta, Brescia, Lombardia, Trentino, Alto Adige, etc.)
  • Bigger scale and easier to access Torino maps.
  • Trentino region detailed maps.
  • Bolzano region detailed maps.
  • Bavarian maps (south Germany).