Can you still buy paper street maps?

[MattA7]

Can you still buy relatively up to date paper street maps ( Glasgow to be precise) I know they are probably less common due to sat nav, google maps etc however sometimes times is better to have a paper version of things to study when trying to familiarize yourself with an area.

 

[Gloster]

Believe it or not, but the Ordnance Survey no longer appears to do its series of excellent street map books. However, Collins still seems to produce some reasonably recent Street Atlases, although I always felt that they were inclined to crush too much on one page.

 

[Ediswan]

Can you still buy relatively up to date paper street maps ( Glasgow to be precise) I know they are probably less common due to sat nav, google maps etc however sometimes times is better to have a paper version of things to study when trying to familiarize yourself with an area.

That depends on your definition of 'relatively up to date'. A-Z are still selling a Glasgow street atlas, but the publication date is May 2015.

 

[swt_passenger]

Collins do A-Z town plans, but their website suggests they’re not necessarily updated to often. Glasgow is 2015.

A-Z street atlases & maps

The street atlas range covers all major cities and towns throughout the country. Twelve new Pocket street maps have been added to the range, ideal for locals and tourists and a great back-up to digital maps.

collins.co.uk

 

[MattA7]

Thanks, I’m in Glasgow tomorrow and will have a look in some book stores or WH smith’s if I have time see what if any I can find.

 

[Busaholic]

I found Philip's street atlases to be the best, but I think they may have stopped the series in 2017. I'm pretty sure you can still get up-to-date London street atlases, but maybe not for other cities?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Thanks, I’m in Glasgow tomorrow and will have a look in some book stores or WH smith’s if I have time see what if any I can find.

You should find what you want at the Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street, or failing that, at the WH Smith more-or-less next door. Presume you're just after something covering the Glasgow City Centre area rather than a much bigger A-Z of the Western half of Central Scotland.

 

[swt_passenger]

I found Philip's street atlases to be the best, but I think they may have stopped the series in 2017. I'm pretty sure you can still get up-to-date London street atlases, but maybe not for other cities?

Looks as if they’re possibly on a long update cycle, because although the Collins Glasgow one seems old, their Edinburgh is dated 2021.

 

[Jim the Jim]

Regarding Google Maps: I find that, whilst some of the digital tools like fixing your location and planning routes are often very helpful, the traditional cartography is pretty poor, and you easily run into issues like the street name not showing when you would like it to and so forth. Paper maps are a still a useful supplement to it, particularly when the GPS feature isn't working well.

Open Street Map is cartographically better though limited in other ways, e.g. its route planning isn't as good.

 

[Bevan Price]

I found Philip's street atlases to be the best, but I think they may have stopped the series in 2017. I'm pretty sure you can still get up-to-date London street atlases, but maybe not for other cities?

You can still buy them here, but no info. about when they were issued:

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[Ediswan]

You can still buy them here, but no info. about when they were issued:

I searched by ISBN number. First published February 2009.

 

[Busaholic]

You can still buy them here, but no info. about when they were issued:

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Can't remember now, but the last atlas was etither 2015 or 2017 i.e. not guaranteed to be as up-to-date as might be desirable for all purposes, but that ISBN MIGHT relate to an earlier edition - it's a minefield, I should know!

 

[Ridercross]

I have a Colllins Pocket Map of Glasgow dated 2018 which covers mainly the City Centre and West End.

 

[Doctor Fegg]

Open Street Map is cartographically better though limited in other ways, e.g. its route planning isn't as good.

OSM is intended as a database for other sites/apps/projects to reuse - the site at openstreetmap.org isn’t really meant to be consumer-facing.

So although the routing on openstreetmap.org is fairly basic, there’s OSM-based routing elsewhere which is much more powerful. In particular, for walking and cycling routing, OSM-based sites are generally much better than Google. I was talking to a certain major transport authority a few days ago whose staff are incredibly frustrated at the poor quality of Google’s cycle routing.

(Disclaimer - I run an OSM-based cycle route planner, https://cycle.travel/map )

 

[Mcr Warrior]

@MattA7... What did you eventually go for?

 

[SWTCommuter]

Can't remember now, but the last atlas was etither 2015 or 2017 i.e. not guaranteed to be as up-to-date as might be desirable for all purposes, but that ISBN MIGHT relate to an earlier edition - it's a minefield, I should know!

That ISBN (978-1-84907-387-5) does apply to the most recent version of the Philip's atlas. The ISBN of the first impression of the 2009 edition was 978-1-84907-016-4 (spiral).
Here are the details from the 2015 title page:

Fourth colour edition 2009
Second impression with revisions 2015
GLWDB
978-1-84907-387-5 (spiral)

HTH

 

[MattA7]

@MattA7... What did you eventually go for?

I intended to be in Glasgow on Friday however had to cancel my plan due to the severe weather. I will likely be back sometime next week and will have a look in some of the book stationary stores