Kompass recreational maps providing extensive coverage of Austria & Germany plus the Slovenian Alps, with hiking & cycling routes on a topographic base, various types of accommodation, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. Many titles are now printed on waterproof & tear-resistant plastic and/or published as competitively priced sets of two or more maps.CARTOGRAPHY: the maps are contoured with additional shading, graphic relief & colouring to provide a more detailed picture of the terrain, vegetation and/or land use. Contour interval varies from 10m in the coastal areas of Northern Germany to 40 or 50 metres in the mountainous regions. All the maps highlight local & long-distance waymarked footpaths, including climbing trails. Most titles also show cycling routes, mountain bike trails, &, the in mountainous areas, ski routes. The maps indicate various types of accommodation (selected inns & hotels, youth hostels, campsites, mountain refuges), as well as recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. Latest editions also show access by public transport with bus stops and/or Park+ Ride facilities.GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES: unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, the maps have a UTM grid for GPS users. MAP LEGEND: most maps now include full English legend, particularly titles covering the Alpine areas. Some maps covering mainly eastern Austria or the less popular parts of Germany may still have a legend in German only.OTHER

Features: selected titles include on the reverse a panorama drawing of their area with names of villages, peaks, valleys, etc. and/or have a booklet with pictures of local wild flowers with their Latin names, as indicated in the individual description.BOOKLETS: PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING!
- many titles come with a booklet describing the area and/or various hiking routes. Unless indicated in the individual description that the booklet

Includes:: English, these booklets are in GERMAN only. The booklets are not necessary to use the maps since, as stated above, full English language map legend is provided. Kompass are Europe’s largest publishers of walking maps, with extensive coverage of hiking areas in other countries, all listed on our website.




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Street atlas covering 150 other towns & cities including Vienna. These indicate a variety of features including railway & metro lines, tourist information offices, post offices, public buildings, police stations & hostels. The mapping of Vienna occupies 24 pages at 1:20, 000 but does not extend to the peripheral regions & does not indicate one-way streets. Vienna city centre is presented at a larger scale & an overview shows the main through-routes of the city. The following 8 cities are also mapped at various scales, each presented over 2 or more pages:- Bregenz, Eisenstadt, Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Linz, Salzburg & St P ...

Austria’s provinces in a series of topographic maps at 1:200, 000 from Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen, the country’s national survey organization, with cartography derived from generalising the 1:50, 000 mapping. Topography is shown by contours at 100m intervals, spot heights, hill-shading & graphic relief. Colours & graphics distinguish landscape types e.g. forests, vineyards, swamps. Attractive, finely-drawn detail

Includes:: minor roads, tracks, railways, chairlifts & other mountain transport, national parks, & administrative boundaries. Small symbols show many landmarks e.g. towers, castles, refuges, isolated buildings. * Please note:* some of the place names are in very small print. The maps have a UTM grid, with latitude lines at intervals of 12` & longitude at 20`. * Map legend

Includes:: English.* Each title also

Includes:: a small map with administrative sub-divisions of the province.





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Cycling atlases of popular regions of Austria from Verlag Esterbauer with essential information on accommodation, repair facilities, etc. All the text is in GERMAN only but extensive map legend

Includes:: English, as shown on our sample image. Information provided on the maps & the legend is sufficient to use these guides without any knowledge of German, particularly in the absence of similar products in English from other publishers. Each atlas

Includes:: a selection of local cycling routes & tours, presented on clear, easy to follow maps. The overprint highlighting the routes indicates road surface & density of motorized traffic. Gradients, intermediate distances, danger points & roads closed to cyclists are marked, & route profiles show the degree of difficulty for each cycle path. A wide range of symbols indicate everything from covered & lockable bicycle stands, repair workshops & bike rentals to viewpoints, nature parks, leisure & sport centres, local shopping facilities, emergency services, etc. The guides also give opening hours of museums & other local places of interest. A separate section at the end of each guide lists accommodation addresses with phone numbers.



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Austria on detailed road maps at mostly 1:150, 000 from Freytag & Berndt, with highlighting of cycle routes, scenic roads, sightseeing tourist routes & picturesque locations, plus in each title’s index booklet street plans & descriptions of sights and/or routes Maps in F&B’s “ Top 10 Tops” series have relief portrayed by hill-shading without distracting from other detail, & plenty of names of topographic

Features: mountain chains, valley, peaks, etc. National Parks & other protected areas are prominently highlighted. Road network

Includes:: minor local roads & selected cart tracks, shows driving distances are main & selected local, & indicates toll routes, steep gradients, caravan traffic restrictions, seasonal closures on mountain roads, etc. Scenic roads are highlighted, as are cycle routes & special tourist routes. Also marked are the country’s long-distance hiking trails. Railway lines are shown with stations. Picturesque towns & other locations are highlighted & in each title 10 selected main sights are prominently marked & are briefly described in a booklet attached to the map cover. Symbols depict various landmarks, places of interest & facilities, including campsites, youth hostels, viewpoints, historical buildings, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 10` intervals. Maps of the larger provinces, e.g. Lower Austria or Styria are double-sided. In addition to the descriptions, accompanying booklets also provide an index listing all locations with their postcodes & street plans main towns in each region – please see individual descriptions for more details. Map legend & the text include English.



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Cycling routes in Austria on two types of maps from Freytag & Berndt: route maps for the main long-distance cycling trails & detailed recreational maps overprinted with a network of local cycling routes for exploring the countryside by bike.LONG-DISTANCE CYCLE ROUTES (RK1, RK2, etc): each title is a concertina map showing the route on 12x 20cm panels. Unpaved parts, sections with heavy motor traffic, & danger points are marked. The maps also indicate bike rental & repair facilities, various types of accommodation, tourist information centres, etc. Places of interest are highlighted, railway lines show local stations & stops, & nearby mountain bike tours are marked. Each map panel has next to it brief descriptions of main sights & lists of useful addresses (including accommodation) for the area. Also included are street plans of main towns, & an overall elevation profile of the whole route. The maps have no geographical coordinates. Map legend & all the text include English.LOCAL CYCLING MAPS (RK100, RK101, etc): detailed road maps with relief shading & spot heights to indicate the topography. An overprint highlights numerous cycling routes, indicating unpaved paths, routes with heavy motorized traffic & gradient marking. Symbols mark various types of accommodation, including campsites & youth hostels, bike retail & repair facilities, viewpoints, places of interest, etc. The maps have a 10km UTM grid. Each title has on the reverse an index of localities with their UTM coordinates, street plans of main towns, & profiles of selected routes. Map legend & all the text include English. ...

Freytag & Berndt`s walking maps of Austria combined into pocket-size atlases, each covering a popular hiking area. The atlases include hiking suggestions & descriptions of places of interest. * Map legend

Includes:: English but all the text is in German only.*

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Austria on a series of contoured & GPS compatible outdoor leisure maps from Freytag & Berndt with hiking & cycling routes, mountain huts, campsites & youth hostels, local bus stops, plus other tourist information. The whole country is covered at 1:50, 000; selected popular areas are also presented with 50K cartography enlarged to 1:35, 000 for larger print & clearer legibility. The maps have contours at 100m intervals in the mountainous areas & 50m elsewhere, enhanced by shading, graphic relief & colouring for woodlands. The overprint highlighting waymarked hiking trails is graded into three types: easy walks, mountain paths, & more difficult alpine sections. Waymarked trails including long-distance routes are annotated with their numbers and/or signs. The maps also highlight cycling & mountain biking routes, cross-country ski tracks, & Nordic walking tracks. Symbols indicate mountain huts, youth hostels, campsites & countryside hotels/inns, bus stops on local roads, car parks plus various facilities & places of interest. The maps have a 2-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 5’ intervals. Selected titles also have in the accompanying booklet (see below) an additional list of GPS waypoints indicated on the map. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING: most titles come with booklets in GERMAN containing extensive additional information including an index of main locations, suggestions for walks (often accompanied by route profiles) & other recreational activities, lists of mountain huts & other recommended accommodation, etc. Unless specified in the title’s individual description, all the information is in German only & no English language version of the booklet is available. Some titles carry similar information on the reverse.

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Austria on indexed touring maps at 1:175, 000 from Hallwag Kümmerly + Frey, printed on durable, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each title is double-sided so covers a large area, & is printed with a good overlap between the sides. Clear & easy to read road network highlights scenic roads & indicates motorway junction numbers & services, steep gradients & winter closures, roads not recommended to or closed to caravans, etc. Driving distances are marked on main & on most connecting local routes. Railway lines are shown with stations & include heritage tourist routes. Various places of interest are highlighted. The maps also indicate campsites & youth hostels. Topography is presented by light, unobtrusive relief shading with plenty of names of mountain ranges, etc, plus colouring for woodlands & boundaries of national/natural parks. The maps are indexed & have latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 10’. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Popular recreational areas of the Austrian Alps on GPS compatible, double-sided maps from Kümmerly+ Frey printed on sturdy, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper; contoured, with hiking, cycling & ski routes, accommodation facilities, locations for other recreational activities, etc. Scales are either 1:50, 000 or 1:35, 000. Contour interval is 40m, enhanced by relief shading & finely drawn additional graphic relief to provide an excellent representation of the terrain. The maps have plenty of names of peaks, valleys, etc, plus colouring/graphics indicating different types of vegetation, & show boundaries of national parks or other protected areas. An overprint, graded according to the difficulty of the route, highlights local hiking trails & long-distance paths indicating, where appropriate, their numbers or names. Also marked are local & long-distance cycle routes, plus a selection of mountain-bike trails, cross-country & alpine ski routes & horse-riding paths. Symbols mark locations for other outdoor activities (climbing, paragliding), different types of accommodations including alpine huts, campsites & youth hostels, sites of botanical or cultural interest, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title also

Includes:: a small road map of the region around the area covered by it.



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