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Streetwise Tuscany Map - Laminated Road Map of Tuscany, Italy - Folding pocket size travel map Map – Folded Map, June 1, 2014
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'Don't leave home without STREETWISE.' --The New York Times
'STREETWISE is an absolute travel essential.' --Travel + Leisure Magazine
'In a strange city, your sense of direction is only as good as the map in your hands. The best maps to carry are published by STREETWISE.' --Chicago Daily Herald
'STREETWISE is an absolute travel essential.' --Travel + Leisure Magazine
'In a strange city, your sense of direction is only as good as the map in your hands. The best maps to carry are published by STREETWISE.' --Chicago Daily Herald
About the Author
STREETWISE® is the first map to be designed with modern graphics and is the originator of the laminated, accordion-fold map format. We’ve set the standard that every map company has imitated but never duplicated. Our mission is to make you feel comfortable, to make you feel safe in a place where you’ve never been before and to enable you to experience a familiar place more fully.
The company was founded in 1984 by Michael Brown, who had been in international publishing for many years, setting up subsidiaries for textbook publishers. In the 1970’s, Brown traveled extensively throughout Africa, India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Brown would take a large paper map, cut out the city center, folded it up and slip it into his pocket, thus preventing him from looking like a tourist in areas where discretion is the better part of travel. This was his tool for surviving.
After many years on the road, Brown settled back in New York and decided to start his own business, based on the adaptations he had made to maps in his travels. His goal was to give someone the ability to navigate easily in unfamiliar terrain.
He started with a new map format: the accordion fold. Such a simple idea, but at the time it was revolutionary. No more struggling to fold an awkward, oversized paper map. This new format would enable the user to blend in like a native, instead of stick out like a tourist. Brown then added lamination to ensure that the map would be a lasting tool.
More important than the format was the design of the map itself. It had to be a map that not only succeeded above and beyond any map he had used, but was esthetically appealing as well. The look of it had to be as striking as the functionality. Color was introduced in a way that was never seen before in a map - vivid purple for water, soothing gray for the background of street grids, gold to highlight elements of the map. Clarity, conciseness and convenience in a very stylish package.
Building the business was a 24 hour job. Brown sold the maps during the day, zipping around Manhattan making deliveries on his Harley Davidson. At night he packed the orders and did the design work. More titles were added, each title requiring months of research and design.
Today, STREETWISE® produces over 130 titles for major destinations, regions and countries throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia. We have grown from the back of a motorcycle to selling millions of maps around the world.
Yet each title is still painstakingly researched and updated. STREETWISE® is one of the only, if not THE only map company that conducts research by walking or driving an area to ensure accuracy. After all, what good is the map if what you hold in your hands doesn’t match what you see on the street sign? This lengthy fact checking results in superior accuracy; in effect, we’ve done the work, now you have the adventure.
In the end, it’s not about the map, it’s about getting out and finding your own authentic experience wherever you go. It’s about being in a city or a region and discovering things that you never thought you would find. You can do this if you have confidence and you have confidence if you have a great map. STREETWISE® is the great map that you need.
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
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Carl Stewart
on May 29, 2008
If you are serious about driving through Tuscany, you will need something more than this map, which is pretty basic. Fine if you intend to travel only on the autostrade and other main roads, but one of the joys of driving in this region is finding small roads, sometimes unpaved, which can lead to small medieval hamlets (known as 'borghe')that have remained basically unchanged for centuries.
There are a number of excellent maps produced but in my many travels in Italy, I have always found the maps produced by the Touring Club Italiano (TCI), and distinguished by the bright green cover with the TCI logo, to be unfailingly brilliant. Difficult to find in this country, they are widely available at gas stations, newsstands, and the like, in Italy.
There are a number of excellent maps produced but in my many travels in Italy, I have always found the maps produced by the Touring Club Italiano (TCI), and distinguished by the bright green cover with the TCI logo, to be unfailingly brilliant. Difficult to find in this country, they are widely available at gas stations, newsstands, and the like, in Italy.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Mrs. D
on January 17, 2009
I stopped to write a review when I read the other ones you have posted. I have to disagree with them completely. I have always relied on Streetwise and this map was no exception. It helped us both in the car and on foot, and we never had a complication. In quaint areas such as this I think you will always have discrepincies, even still we had a fabulous visit without any confusion. Actually, it would have been lovely to be lost there! But that was not the case.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Richard T. Haverkate
on April 24, 2012
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I'm not sure who designed (or approved) this map of Tuscany, but it's simply awful. I'm speaking of the Streetwise Tuscany: Road Map of Tuscany Italy, Revised 2011. This map is oriented on a very strange angle. When one holds the map in a vertical position (not a natural way to unfold a map) it's extremely difficult to read. The entire thing is printed at strange 45-degree angle from NW to SE. I don't understand. Additionally, the map covers a very large area stretching from northern to southern Tuscany (Bologna to Terni on one side and La Spezia to Monte Argentario on the other). Why didn't Steetwise design the map so that it covers the area from West to East (like Pisa to San Marino)? The map unfolds in what seems like a westerly to easterly directions, but the one has to take it from a horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation to see the map...and then tilt one's head to a 45-degree angle to read the map. Actually reading the map is a whole different and quite impossible matter. The print is so small, the colors too muted, the legend so frustrating to decipher and placed in very illogical position on the front cover (IF you can find the front cover while holding the map in its intended unfolded position). I normally love Streetwise. This seems like more of topographical map with colored highlands and lowlands with its roads and streets printed so tiny that it would not be possible for me to navigate while co-piloting a motor tour of Tuscany - let alone doing the driving! Also, the only city with a 'pop-out' is Florence. That small square of the map might be useful for a balloon pilot but not a car driver or a cyclist -- and certainly not a pedestrian. I was hoping for so much more. I purchased this map from Amazon and immediately sent an email to Streetwise.Read more ›
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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B. Bauer
on June 4, 2010
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We rented a car in Rome, and the only map they had was a country map (if you rent in Florence, they have a Tuscany map). The Italy map had almost as much detail as this map (this map was a little easier to read because the region was enlarged). Driving in Tuscany is tricky - the intersections usually only have the next town, and not the road numbers. The next town will usually be too small to show up on this map, and many of the small roads aren't on here either. Most intersections will just be a list of places that aren't on this map. Never let your gas get below 1/4 tank because you'll get lost a lot, and never know when you'll be able to fill up again (this is probably good advice even with a good map).
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Patricia M. Case
on January 8, 2010
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We've used this map series in many places, and highly recommend it for ease of use and TRANSPORT. It's also durable, and we've wouldn't travel without it.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Arby1
on November 11, 2011
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We tend to take the roads "less traveled by" when on vacation. Although every road we traveled in Tuscany was not on this map, it was most helpful in establishing our general location. (The GPS could not do that at times.) We were "misplaced" sometimes, but never lost! I"m glad we had this map with us.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Blue Eyes
on March 25, 2010
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I love these streetwise maps. They make travel so easy. Small enough to keep on your lap, so you don't have to unfold and refold a bulky travel road map. Not as detailed, but there aren't so many streets in Tuscany that that issue presents a problem.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Ozmatoo
on June 3, 2014
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I'll say the same thing I did about the Florence map from this company: they don't include enough of the area travelers might want, but when you're driving around, it's more convenient than the huge paper maps that never fold up easily. I'd use them with a car or phone gps, but by themselves, these maps have limitations. The best thing about them is the laminated construction, which makes it easy to fold up and stick into a purse or travel pack.
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