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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.
In many countries it is very important to have a map that shows [[gas petrol 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 petrol stations are marked, and you don't need city maps. Try and find a map that you don't haMapsve have 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 ==
* In Scandinavia (especially Finland) - the ''Esso'' country maps are great, and free from any Esso petrol station in [[Finland]]
* For the [[United Kingdom]] AA maps are good but can get a bit too large.
* In Germany, you can get a booklet for free at the rasthof Rasthof restaurants which provide a map of all the country's rasthof Rasthof and the information about every one of them.
It's recommended you have a map that is at least 1:1,000,000 ratio. 1:750,000 is usually 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 petrol 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]].
"Philip's compact atlas Europe" shows service stations in some countries, is pretty compact and was available for 7 euros euro at the New English Book Store in [[Amsterdam]], in June 2008.
== Online maps ==
For many countries in the world, there are very good maps at [http://maps.google.com Google]. You can also use [http://www.liftershalte.info/ Liftershalte.info], which is basically the same, except that it shows hitchhiking places.
There is also the fast growing incredible free (like [[wikipedia:Free Software|Free Software]]) OpenStreetMap ([http://openstreetmap.org/ openstreetmap.org]) that is already very good for England and Germany and has at least some data on many places where other services don't have anything at all (like with Argentina on googleGoogle...)!
For [[South America]] you can use [http://www.br.map24.com/ map24].
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