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* The maps by ''Marco Polo'' are excellent for Europe. The 1:800,000 ratio version is the best (the name of this map changes in different countries). It is printed in [[Germany]] but is available across the continent.
* 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 restaurants which provide a map of all the country's Rasthof and the information about every one of them.
* [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).
=== 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 petrol stations on highways! Unfortunately [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user 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 euro at the New English Book Store in [[Amsterdam]], in June 2008.
== Online maps ==
[[ImageFile:Google-maps mobile in Nokia N91.jpg|thumb|right|220px]]
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.
For [[South America]] you can use [http://www.br.map24.com/ map24].
==Mobile phones==
On most modern mobile phones, there are mapping applications. For Java enabled phones (almost any phone), you can use [http://www.mgmaps.com/ MGMaps], which uses maps from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and even [http://OpenStreetMap.org/ OpenStreetMap]. It also supports GPS, if you have a receiver built-in or via bluetooth.
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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