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'''Maps''' are essential to hitchhiking. Make sure you always have a good map with you, the scale should at least be 1:700.000.

* [http://www.mapsworldwide.com/sku_33423.htm Collins Road Atlas: Europe 200] (1 : 1 000 000) is nice and has most petrol stations, even though it is a bit large (A3).

* The ''Berlitz Europe'' atlas includes petrol stations and has a ratio of 1:800 000, though many important cities are in the crease of the book and are difficult to read (e.g., Paris, Berlin, etc.).

* 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 petrol stations on highways! Unfortunately [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small>^{[http://guaka.org site], [[User talk:guaka|wikitalk]]}</small> only found this one in [[Slovakia]]. This map could also be found in [[Germany]], [[Czech Republic]] and [[Poland]] - [[User:Tmoon|Tom]] has a copy of both Czech and Polish editions (both editions exactly the same but with different front cover), and he bought these in 2006. They are still the best hitchhiking maps he's seen - hopefully the more modern editions are still as good. The cost was around 10 euro.

* ''Philip's compact atlas Europe'' shows service stations in some countries, is pretty compact and was available for 7 euro at the New English Book Store in [[Amsterdam]], in June 2008.

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| ARAL || Straßen-Atlas Deutschland & Europa 2012 || 1:400 000 || book || 8.95 Euro || yes || {{Nowrap|978-3897643437}} || Also contains maps for Austria, Switzerland 1:500 000, Belgium, Luxemburg and Netherlands 1:400 000. City maps 1:100 000, Europe map 1:4 000 000

| Michelin || {{nowrap|Regional Deutschland}} || 1:300 000 || folding || 7.50 Euro || yes || - || Various regional maps. Six orange maps with numbers 541 - 546, price is for one.

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| Tank&Rast || Rasthof restaurants booklet || - || folding || {{nowrap|0.00 Euro}} || no || - || Map of most of the country's Rasthof and the information about every one of them. Does only contain the ones belonging to the Tank&Rast corporation.

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== Online maps ==

[[File:Google-maps mobile in Nokia N91.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Google Maps in a mobile phone]]

For many countries in the world, there are very good maps at [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap], [http://maps.google.com Google], [http://maps.yahoo.com Yahoo] or [http://www.bing.com/maps/ Bing].

For [[Germany]] you can use [http://www.rast.de/standorte/servicenetz/index.php Tank &amp; Rast] to find the petrol stations.

== Mobile phones ==