Paperback, 17x 24cm, 187-page atlas of Chennai, including Tambaram, Ambattur, Ennore & Omr, showing names of local neighbourhoods & streets with house numbers. The whole area is covered at 1:12, 500, with the city centre at 1:6, 250. The atlas has very well designed, clear cartography, with colours indicating residential & industrial areas, slums, shopping streets & centres, parks & gardens, & wooded areas. Street information

Includes:: dual carriageways, flyovers, one way streets, traffic lights & pedestrian subways. Railways are shown with stations. A very vide range of symbols indicate various facilities & places of interest, including banks, taxi stands, fuel supplies, monuments & museums, restaurants & hotels, places of worship, police stations, post offices, electricity/water/sewer complaint offices, etc. Extensive index

Includes:: separate lists of various institutions & facilities, from airlines & travel agencies, apartments & art & cultural institutions to sport complexes, tourist information centres & water features.



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Paperback, 17x 24cm, 187-page atlas of Chennai, including Tambaram, Ambattur, Ennore & Omr, showing names of local neighbourhoods & streets with house numbers. The whole area is covered at 1:12, 500, with the city centre at 1:6, 250. The atlas has very well designed, clear cartography, with colours indicating residential & industrial areas, slums, shopping streets & centres, parks & gardens, & wooded areas. Street information

Includes:: dual carriageways, flyovers, one way streets, traffic lights & pedestrian subways. Railways are shown with stations. A very vide range of symbols indicate various facilities & places of interest, including banks, taxi stands, fuel supplies, monuments & museums, restaurants & hotels, places of worship, police stations, post offices, electricity/water/sewer complaint offices, etc. Extensive index

Includes:: separate lists of various institutions & facilities, from airlines & travel agencies, apartments & art & cultural institutions to sport complexes, tourist information centres & water features.



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Explore one of Tamil Nadu`s many grand Hindu temples, stopping to savour the smell of jasmine garlands piled up before carved granite gods. Crane your neck to see the top of these towering pyramid-like temples adorned with the statues of deities, warriors & dancers. Escape the heat by following the footsteps of the British colonialists into the charming hill stations, or go surround yourself by nature in the blue Nilgiri mountains. Featuring detailed coverage of this wonderfully diverse region, Footprint Focus Chennai & Tamil Nadu will prove an invaluable companion. Essentials section with practical tips on getting there & around. Background section with fascinating information on the region`s unique history, culture & cuisine. Comprehensive listings of where to eat, sleep & play including festivals & horse riding. Detailed street maps for important cities & towns. Slim enough to fit in your pocket. Loaded with advice & information, this concise Footprint Focus guide will help you get the most out of Tamil Nadu without weighing you down. The content of the Footprint Focus Chennai & Tamil Nadu guide has been extracted from Footprint`s India Handbook. ...

Chennai & Tamil Nadu in the Green Guide series from Michelin; detailed guides exploring the major sights & attractions of a range of cities, regions & countries. Drawing on a long publishing history, Michelin guides are renowned for their individual ‘star rating’, ranking restaurants, sights & attractions. Listings in each guide are organised alphabetically, allowing readers to access information quickly as well as being designed for practical use on the road. With an emphasis on cultural activities & history, each sight is graded & has extensive background information. Practical visitor information is clearly highlighted with symbols. Predominantly recognised for their extensive coverage of French regions (shown on our website in a separate series), the Green Guides also cover international destinations. An extensive introductory section on planning your trip provides information on when & where to go, useful pre-trip information, getting there, where to stay & eat & what to do & see. There are also individual sections on Nature, History & Art ad Culture & a selection of driving tours of the area. Fold-out maps at the front & back of the book give an overview of the area covered by the guide. The structure of each guide varies depending on the type of destination. National & regional guides cover regions alphabetically, each with their own accommodation, sights & food & drink listings, while City guides cover sights alphabetically with one city-wide section for listings. Accommodation & food & drink listings are both concise & comprehensive, aiming to cater for all budgets & tastes. Both sights & listings often include information specific to travelling with kids. Each of the places covered in the guide is listed alphabetically & three Michelin star ratings
- highly recommended, recommended & interesting, which have been used for more than 100 years
- help readers identify places of interest, restaurants & notable local attractions. Individual listings include principal sights for each city or town, local walking & driving tours in addition to tips on local excursions. There is also an ‘address book’ information box in each section including recommendations for the best restaurants & accommodation in the area, as well as any relevant leisure activities. A series of overview regional & city plans also helps navigation & orientation for each region.

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One of the maps in the topographic survey of Peru from the country’s national survey organization, Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Contours are at 25m intervals & colouring/symbols indicate different types of terrain & vegetation. Some of the maps may contain small blank spaces representing as yet unmapped areas. Each sheet covers 30’ latitude by 30’ longitude. The maps have a 1km UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Publication dates vary; most maps were published in 1960s to 1990s, with some sheets revised more recently. Map legend is in Spanish only, except in the more recent editions which also include English. ...

Chepstow & District in 1894 in a series of reproductions of Ordnance Survey’s famous ” Inch to the Mile” maps published in the Alan Godfrey Editions to provide a historical record of England & Wales in the second half of 19th & early 20th century. The map covers the area around Chepstow, stretching from Usk in the top left corner eastward to Thornbury & southward to Redwick & Almonsbury. The Severn Tunnel area is included together with a good stretch of the Severn Estuary. Other locations on the map include: in GLOCESTERSHIRE Alveston, Alvington, Aust, Beachley, Hill, Lancaut, Littleton upon Severn, Northwick, Oldbury upon Severn, Olveston, Redwick, Rockhampton, Tidenham & Woolaston; plus in MONMOUTHSHIRE Bishton, Caerwent, Caldicot, Chapel Hill, Dinham, Ifton, Itton, Keineys-Inferior, Kilgwrrwg, Llanbadock, Llangeview, Llangibby, Llangstone, Llangwm, Llangwm-isaf, Llanowel, Llanmartin, Llantrissent, Llanvaches, Llanvair Driscoed, Llanvihangel near Roggiett, Llanwern, Major, Mathern, Mounton, Newchurch, Penhow, Penterry, Portskewet, Roggiett, Shire-Newton, St Arvan, St Arvans Grange, St Brides Netherwent, Tintern Parva, Tredunnock, Undy, Whitson, Wilcrick & Wolves-Newton. On the reverse is a map of Beachley around 1920 showing the Shipworkers Camp & part of the Shipyard. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the OS Inch to the Mile Maps: the maps provide an invaluable overview of a wider area, typically 18 x 12 miles (29 x 19 kms approx.), & offer historical mapping for small towns & villages not covered by the more detailed series for which the Godfrey Editions are better known. On the reverse all the maps have historical notes & most titles also include a more detailed, large scale map of a small town or a village in the area. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Chepstow & Tutshill in 1900 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Although Chepstow is very much a Monmouthshire & Welsh town, the publishers have used the Gloucestershire maps because the sheetlines are better in that series. The map is double-sided for maximum coverage. The main map covers most of the town centre, including Workhouse, Castle, St Mary`s church, High Street, Bridge Works, north part of station & Tubular Suspension Bridge, Chepstow Bridge etc. Coverage extends west to The Mount, St Maux College, St Kingsmark, Crossway Green, Bishop`s Barnet Wood. The map also covers part of Tutshill on the Gloucestershire side of the Wye, including Tutshill House, site of St David`s Chapel, Wirewood`s Green. On the reverse is part of adjacent sheet 54.14 extending coverage south to include south part of station, Hardwick Court, High Beech, St Lawrence, Fairfield Farm & Tallard`s Marsh. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

The départments of Cher & Indre at 1:150, 000 in Michelin’s Local Series, with highlighting for scenic routes, an index, a special panel with best sights & recommended driving tours, & street plans of central Bourges & Châteauroux. Coverage extends from Blois in the north-western corner to Montluçon, & eastwards across the Loire to Nevers. PLEASE NOTE: our coverage image, provided by the publishers, does not take into account which areas along the edge of the map are blocked by the index & the additional features – coverage shown in the south-eastern corner of the image is not included. Maps in Michelin’s Local Series of France have the same cartography (road network & place names shown on the maps) as the publishers’ Regional Series at 1;200, 000 but enlarged here to 1:150, 000 to provide greater clarity & larger, easier to read print size. Road network is presented in great detail, indicating width, motorway services & rest areas, dangerous or restricted entry roads, steep gradients, height & weight restrictions, etc. Scenic sections are highlighted. The maps also show selected cycle paths & nature trails. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. Symbols indicate various places of interest, with additional star rating for best sights, based on the publishers’ Green Guides for French regions. Satellite-derived base with colouring for the forested areas & boundaries of national or regional parks shows the topography. In the mountainous regions the maps have bold, very effective relief shading, with a large number of names of peaks, passes, & other topographic features. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ intervals & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title in addition

Includes:: a panel showing the area’s principal roads & places of interest, plus recommendations for sightseeing tours. Also provided are town centre maps of main cities, indicating principal traffic arteries, one way streets & places of interest. Only selected streets are named & listed in the accompanying index. Please click on the series link to see all the titles in this series.



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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Street plan of Cherbourg, part of an extensive series covering French cities & towns from Blay-Foldex, the country’s largest, oldest & most experienced publisher of urban mapping. Blay plans include outer suburbs &, where appropriate, adjoining localities forming part of the urban agglomeration & provide brief descriptions of the town’s main sights, contact details for hotels & other places of interest, etc. The plans show one way streets, car parks & pedestrian zones. Important public buildings are clearly marked & identified. Blay street maps are usually double-sided & include an enlargement for the town centre & a street index with separate lists of “edifices publics”: main public buildings, places of worship, schools, sport facilities, stations, etc. Each of the outer suburbs or the adjoining localities, identified with its postcode, has a separate index. Many titles also provide a road map of the environs. All the text is in French only.PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of Blay-Foldex street plans of French towns & cities please click on the series link – the series description also

Includes:: a comparison between Blay & IGN street plans.

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