Product Description

Scale 1:2,500,000. Includes special maps: Around Ciudad de México 1:1.000.000, and Mexico City at 1:30,000.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1184818 in Books
• Brand: Nelles Verlag
• Published on: 2006-02-28
• Format: Folded Map
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Map
• 2 pages

About the Author
Founded in 1977 in Munich, Nelles Verlag publishes folded road and travel maps in color. Nelles uses special, easy-to-fold paper that allows thousands of refoldings without fraying. Nelles maps are highly readable, detailed relief maps with major roads and point-to-point distances clearly indicated. The maps include highly useful legends; city maps show tourist features such as hotels.

Customer Reviews

Basic overview map
This map begins in the southwestern USA covering from Phoenix and Dallas southward. It also covers the eastern half of Honduras to Tegucigalpa. The northern half is on one map and the southern on the reverse.

It has good markings for national parks and ruins. The region around Ciudad de Mexico is covered in more detail.

The advertising claim of multiple languages needs clarification. Only the LEGEND is printed in four languages. The place names are generally in Spanish with occasional English comments--clear enough for any English reader.

Distance is given in kilometers (sometimes miles in parentheses).

The map has a nice durable cover as its first 'page', however sticking with that cover limits the overall size of the map; it could have been larger with an additional fold to allow more height.

4 centimeters equals 100 kilometers.

This is a good durable general map, however of very limited usefulness for driving. Only the major roads are identified by number. Secondary roads are extensively noted but not numbered or identified. An exception is Mexico City (which has street names) but not the regional map of the same area.

Not a second time
Unless you like maps with a hard cardboard cover glued to them, I would not go with this map.

The map itself is good. It shows a decent level of detail and even lists the numbers for major roads, and marks many tourist areas. Perhaps neatest of all, this map shows blow up areas for many Mayan-Ruin sites.

The cover bothers me for two reasons:
First, when you unfold the map, it's impossible to unfold completely and lay it flat because of the way it glued to the cover with a permanent crease. And second, it only allows the map to fold out by one extension north-south. Without the cardboard cover, Nelles could have made the map to unfold one additional time, allowing the map to feature more detail on one side.

If I had it to do over again, I would go with a different company, and if necessary, get maps of each individual country.