Buying a paper map

[holhum]

I will be walking from La Virgen Del Camino just past Leon and trying to work out my own stages, but without a map it is doing my head in a bit...flipping from section to section in my Brierley guide or googling maps then zooming in and out Can anyone recommend a good old fashioned fold out paper map that will cover Leon - Santiago in enough detail to see all the smaller villages? Something I can order online and get sent to Australia if I can't find it here. Thanks!

 

[Peligro]

I can't help but I understand the issue. Each time I've gone I've copied three fold out pages from a Spanish roadmaps book and then taped them together to make one big detailed map of the area I'm going to cover. That way I can see my journey from start to finish. Good luck!

 

[Michael; Camino-addicted]

If you need only something to plan your stages, then look at

www.gronze.com

There you have a little map with distances and many information about Albergues.

If you really want a paper map - sorry - I can´t help you

 

[Peligro]

This is the map I made for Leon to Sarria:

 

[Deleted member 43780]

This may not help you now but...

Once you get to Spain, you should be able to find paper maps in stationary or newspaper type of store or book store in Spain/France

Bike stores may also have paper maps

 

[cmk033]

You may be better off getting a guide book. Many are smaller in size and will have all information you will need. The one I have used was "Hiking the Camino de Santiago" by Anna Dintaman & David Landis. It will add bit of weight on your pack but if you want a map, this book will have all maps you will need to walk the Camino.

 

[AndyTomas]

I will be walking from La Virgen Del Camino just past Leon and trying to work out my own stages, but without a map it is doing my head in a bit...flipping from section to section in my Brierley guide or googling maps then zooming in and out Can anyone recommend a good old fashioned fold out paper map that will cover Leon - Santiago in enough detail to see all the smaller villages? Something I can order online and get sent to Australia if I can't find it here. Thanks!

Hi there, if you want I have nice files with all the stages from Sjdp to SdC. So you don’t need to carry any paper.
The only think is in Italian language but the map show you the way plus all the stages, (name village and so on) that anyone doesn’t need to translate but just read it.
I can send to you through email because the files are too long.
By the way I’m italian but I live in Sydney and I’ll do the Camino and the end of April to May.

Looking forward to hear from you

Ciao

 

[annieesperance]

Hiya! I too am doing the Camino from SJPP end April, may see you along the way. Travel safe!

 

[annieesperance]

If you need only something to plan your stages, then look at

www.gronze.com

There you have a little map with distances and many information about Albergues.

If you really want a paper map - sorry - I can´t help you

Thanks for the 'Gronze' website info. Awesome maps etc. Any way to translate it into English? Is there a 'translate' button somewhere? Thanks!

 

[AndyTomas]

Hiya! I too am doing the Camino from SJPP end April, may see you along the way. Travel safe!

I will start in Pamplona the 29th.
Are you from Australia?
I’ll see you somewhere

 

[Anamiri]

There is a small Michelin book with great maps for the Frances, do they do other Caminos?

 

[annieesperance]

I will start in Pamplona the 29th.
Are you from Australia?
I’ll see you somewhere

Yes, from Australia. You will be very much in front of me...but Buen Camino!

 

[Kanga]

I have the Michelin Europe Tourist and Motoring Atlas - a large scale map book of Europe. I love it. When the dreaming begins, out it comes....

 

[Michael; Camino-addicted]

Hallo Annie,

no, there isn´t a translate button in gronze.

You "have to" translate with google - or better - ask Spanish pilgrims on your way and get in contact

Buen Camino

 

[TA Zitnak]

There is a small Michelin book with great maps for the Frances, do they do other Caminos?

I really like the small Michelin guide as well. Lightweight with best map detail i have seen.

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Thanks for the 'Gronze' website info. Awesome maps etc. Any way to translate it into English? Is there a 'translate' button somewhere? Thanks!

Open Gronze in Google Chrome and the browser will automatically translate for you:


Not perfect but understandable.

There are numerous apps you can use to plot the Camino on very detailed maps - Viewranger for one. The Spanish IGN app gives amazing detail. You can always print and stick the sheets together.



This is the IGN map with the route of the CF overlaid on it. In real life you can scroll along the Camino all the way to SdC or just print out screenshots and tape together. DM me if you need guidance. You can get the route from the resources pages on the forum or I can send you a copy.

 

[Thomas1962]

First: don't worry about 'the stages' too much, because there aren't really any. The camino is a long path with about 400(?) albergues on its way. Day by day you can walk as long as you want to...
Besides, this map from the Dutch confraternity might help you. You can move and zoom into the map. If you fill in 'La Virgen Del Camino' in the search area it brings you right to your start. Maybe you can print these maps on the right scale?

 

[cmk033]

I found this map book from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947474081/?tag=casaivar02-20

 

[Glenshiro]

You need the Spanish IGN (Instituto Geografico Nacional) maps for stages 19-22 onwards. They're 1:50000 scale and aimed at walkers. In Spanish, with an English key, and available by post from Stanfords, London.
And their batteries never go flat!

 

[Jeff Crawley]

You need the Spanish IGN (Instituto Geografico Nacional) maps for stages 19-22 onwards. They're 1:50000 scale and aimed at walkers. In Spanish, with an English key, and available by post from Stanfords, London.
And their batteries never go flat!

But £27.99 for the set of maps and between £8 and £27.50 for postage - I'd rather buy a spare set of batteries!

 

[Glenshiro]

But £27.99 for the set of maps and between £8 and £27.50 for postage - I'd rather buy a spare set of batteries!

Yes, the maps aren't cheap (probably cheaper in Spain) but which will last longer? And when you're sitting in your armchair in the care home in years to come (many, I hope!) can you see yourself reminiscing over a set of dud batteries?

 

[Glenshiro]

Jeff has spurred me to find another source - I should have thought of The Map Shop immediately!

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Jeff has spurred me to find another source - I should have thought of The Map Shop immediately!

Ooh! Nice site - thanks for the link.

 

[JohnJocys]

I will be walking from La Virgen Del Camino just past Leon and trying to work out my own stages, but without a map it is doing my head in a bit...flipping from section to section in my Brierley guide or googling maps then zooming in and out Can anyone recommend a good old fashioned fold out paper map that will cover Leon - Santiago in enough detail to see all the smaller villages? Something I can order online and get sent to Australia if I can't find it here. Thanks!

Have a look at Michelin Road Maps 'Regional Espania'. The scale isn't great at 1cm: 4km, but I found them very helpful when trying to look at the bigger picture - especially when doing the Via de La Plata last year.
The Caminos aren't marked, but if you also have a guide book you'll be fine.
If you have a Garmin GPS, take a look a 'Talkytoaster' (do a Google) for VERY cheap 1:50k mapping. I have their maps for Spain and UK....didn't cost a lot at all.

 

[wisepilgrim]

You are welcome to use the maps on wisepilgrim.com. They overlap enough that you should be able to print them out and assemble them in a meaningful way.

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Have a look at Michelin Road Maps 'Regional Espania'. The scale isn't great at 1cm: 4km, but I found them very helpful when trying to look at the bigger picture - especially when doing the Via de La Plata last year.
The Caminos aren't marked, but if you also have a guide book you'll be fine.
If you have a Garmin GPS, take a look a 'Talkytoaster' (do a Google) for VERY cheap 1:50k mapping. I have their maps for Spain and UK....didn't cost a lot at all.

Talkytoaster - have been using his maps for the best part of 10 years, good guy to deal will too.

 

[AlwynWellington]

There is a small Michelin book with great maps for the Frances, do they do other Caminos?

I really like the small Michelin guide as well. Lightweight with best map detail i have seen.

For the route from Saint-Jean the small Michelin booklet is #160.

That for the route from Le Puy to Saint-Jean (both in France) is #161.

I kept mine in a front pouch, so easily acessible. Best of all possible worlds:

1. elevation guide with towns, villages and points of interest
2. selection of albergue (gite in France)
3. detailed map
4. achievement indicator

@Anamiri , kia kaha (take care, be strong, get going)

 

[holhum]

You need the Spanish IGN (Instituto Geografico Nacional) maps for stages 19-22 onwards. They're 1:50000 scale and aimed at walkers. In Spanish, with an English key, and available by post from Stanfords, London.
And their batteries never go flat!

Yes, the maps aren't cheap (probably cheaper in Spain) but which will last longer? And when you're sitting in your armchair in the care home in years to come (many, I hope!) can you see yourself reminiscing over a set of dud batteries?
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For the route from Saint-Jean the small Michelin booklet is #160.

That for the route from Le Puy to Saint-Jean (both in France) is #161.

I kept mine in a front pouch, so easily acessible. Best of all possible worlds:

1. elevation guide with towns, villages and points of interest
2. selection of albergue (gite in France)
3. detailed map
4. achievement indicator

@Anamiri , kia kaha (take care, be strong, get going)

 

[holhum]

Lots of great suggestions...will look at printing from the websites suggested and if that fails I can buy the Michelin guide here in Australia! Thanks everyone

 

[kmccue]

Hallo Annie,

no, there isn´t a translate button in gronze.

You "have to" translate with google - or better - ask Spanish pilgrims on your way and get in contact

Buen Camino

If you launch with Chrome, it will translate

 

[Moorwalker]

You may be better off getting a guide book. Many are smaller in size and will have all information you will need. The one I have used was "Hiking the Camino de Santiago" by Anna Dintaman & David Landis. It will add bit of weight on your pack but if you want a map, this book will have all maps you will need to walk the Camino.

But guide books do not give you an overview and you have to keep flipping from one page to another. I know exactly what Holhum means, I want the same thing for the same reason.

 

[Moorwalker]

But £27.99 for the set of maps and between £8 and £27.50 for postage - I'd rather buy a spare set of batteries!

To me a paper map is far better than a tiny map of a tiny piece of the route on a tiny screen. I'm a travel dinosaur like that. I still use paper maps when driving too. I know any number of people who have no real idea of where they have actually been because they used their satnav system.

 

[Jeff Crawley]

To me a paper map is far better than a tiny map of a tiny piece of the route on a tiny screen. I'm a travel dinosaur like that. I still use paper maps when driving too. I know any number of people who have no real idea of where they have actually been because they used their satnav system.

45 years as a Civil Engineer - I love maps and compasses but don't you just hate it when the bit you want to see is just off the edge of the paper map whereas, with a flick of your finger you can pan and zoom in on that tiny piece of the route on a tiny screen?

Rubric on a map from Colonial Boston:

WARNING: Roads are shifted, houses burn, are abandoned or rebuilt; a round world distorts a flat map; man’s memory is fallible; expect not exactness.

 

[Moorwalker]

45 years as a Civil Engineer - I love maps and compasses but don't you just hate it when the bit you want to see is just off the edge of the paper map whereas, with a flick of your finger you can pan and zoom in on that tiny piece of the route on a tiny screen?

I'll give you that one

 

[David Tallan]

For paper maps, this source might be useful: https://www.cnig.es/buscarArtsMenu?categoria=CASAN-Camino-de-Santiago

 

[David Tallan]

Speaking of paper maps, I would dearly love to get my hands on this paper map from a few years ago, published by the Spanish government, off all the Caminos in Spain. It doesn't seem to be available for purchase on their website any more. Anyone have any leads?

http://www2.ign.es/MapasAbsysJPG/12-F-31(ed2016)_01.jpg

 

[AlwynWellington]

on a tiny screen

I too dislike the "tiny screen".

Which is why, for over six years now, I carry a tablet with a 10 inch screen (and a place for a SIM card).

Weight of my current tablet, keyboard and case is about 700 grams. I have stored most manuals (scanned for my use only), other reading. I am using it more and more in daily use, such as emails, at home. With my PC used only when a really big screen is needed.

My total pack weight is just on 7 kg. This includes the tablet, 1 litre of water, a two person (me and my pack) tent, groundsheet and sleeping pad at about 900 grams, a zoom point and shoot camera and nibble food for the day. Oh, and a change of clothes, dressings etc.

 

[psicari]

Thanks for the 'Gronze' website info. Awesome maps etc. Any way to translate it into English? Is there a 'translate' button somewhere? Thanks!

Hi there,
Open Gronze via Goggle Chrome instead of google and a translate to English button pops up. Hope this helps.

 

[naplesdon]

The Michelin guide is book 160.