Product Description

Folded road and travel map in color. Scale 1:500,000. Distinguishes roads ranging from motorways to other roads. Legend includes tracks, railroads, ferry routes, international airports, national airports, aerodromes/small aircrafts, gasoline/petrol stations, bus stations, hospitals/medical facilities, castles/forts, points of interest, ruins or archaeological sites, campsites and huts, museums, lodges, churches, mosques. Includes inset map of Cape Coast, Accra and Kumasi. Extensive index.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #499653 in Books
• Brand: International Travel Maps
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Map
• 2 pages

About the Author
ITMB Publishing (International Travel Maps and Books) of Vancouver, Canada, has published detailed reference and travel maps of countries, regions, and cities around the world since 1985. The company's titles include many that are unique or the first of their kind, including the first commercially available travel map of South America.

Customer Reviews

Nice map, with a couple of shortcomings
Easily readable large-scale map of Ghana. One side depicts the southern half of the country, the other side the north. I can't vouch for the entire map, but the areas I've visited appear to be accurately depicted. It could be improved on two points: First the ancient historic mosques (e.g.; the famous one in Larabanga) are not marked, either as historic sites or as mosques. Furthermore, this the first map I've ever seen that lacks any mileage information, either using a scale of miles, or by noting distances between points. But since it's marked as 1:500000 scale, the math works out to 1cm = 5km. Handy to know that.

Do not rely on this map!
Apparently this is the only road map of Ghana commercially available. During four weeks of travel in Ghana I found this map to be full of horrendous errors, some gross ones, others in small detail.
Major roads are simply not shown on this map, such as perfectly good roads leading to Ada Foah, or there are roads shown that do not exist in reality. I came to several towns of very significant size that were barely a dot on the map.
I have the impression that this map is essentially based on maps drawn during colonial times in the 1920's.
The only useful map I encountered in Ghana is a map issued a few years ago as a promotional effort by Toyota Co., but this map is unfortunately no longer available.
The map serves well to obtain an overview of the geography of Ghana, and once this is done, one should rely on the small but detailed and usually very accurate maps in travel guide books. I used the Bradt Guide for this trip and was very well served.

Ridiculously Oversized
Ghana is a small country. Yet this map is ridiculously oversized, with the northern half of the country on one side and the southern on the other. That makes it unnecessarily difficult to plot a trip when you can't see the entire country on one side. A country this small and mostly rural doesn't require a great deal of detail. The map covers up my whole dining table when I spread it out. For that reason it's very frustrating and hard to use.

Unfortunately, you may not be able to find another Ghana map. I've been looking, and this one seems to be the only one available.