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== Paper maps ==
Maps
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In many countries it is very important to have a map that shows [[gas station]]s, service areas, toll gates and other important places on the motorways.
You want to know were you are going. It also helps if gas stations are marked, and you don't need city maps. Try and find a map that you don't have haMapsve to open out to one large sheet of paper every time you want to use it; you will be using it often. Book-style maps are best.
== Paper maps ==
'''Map Tips: Positive'''
* ''Michelin'' Individual Country maps are not the best to use, they do not list the Services Area and lots of useful information are absent, the scale ratio is often not good enough.
=== Europe ===
For Western, Northern and Southern Europe: ''one specific edition'' of the Marco Polo car map of [[Europe]] is great, it doesn't contain too much useless stuff like indices or city maps, and shows gas stations on highways! Unfortunately [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> only found this one in [[Slovakia]].
For [[South America]] you can use [http://www.br.map24.com/ map24].
==GPS==
The Nokia N810 runs GNU/Linux, its GPS function is not great but it works okay in cars. You can easily get a lot of maps for the proprietary built-in software, at least for Europe, North America and some other parts of the world. Maemo Mapper is free software with loads of options, by default it downloads the maps from [http://OpenStreetMap.org/ OpenStreetMap] but you can also change it to use Yahoo or Google Maps.
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