The Bottom Line
- Guide map and tourist guide all in one
- Easy to read
- Durable plastic-coated paper
- You'll need a good guide book for details
- No ratings
- Few telephone numbers
Description
- Beautiful hand-drawn San Francisco map with sights, hotels, restaurants located.
- Walking tours and cable car routes marked.
- Equally useful for driving or walking.
Guide Review - MapEasy's Guidemap to San Francisco
Gary Bradhering of MapEasy says: "We start with a geographically accurate and to-scale base map, and then to that add the information you would typically find in a guidebook." In fact, it's astonishing how much information MapEasy packs onto one map. The San Francisco map shows all the sights, dozens of hotels, coffee shops, restaurants (with price guidelines), shops and other points of interest. It outlines eight walking tours and shows the cable car routes, too. And they still have room for comments such as this one for 2151 Sacramento: "Spectacular French-inspired mansion once hosted Arthur Conan Doyle."
You'll still need a good guide book for detailed information and to learn more about the background of the sights, but with this MapEasy map, you won't need to carry it with you all day.
While I like this map a lot, a friend disagrees. When asked to use it to navigate from the Triton Hotel to Mama's Cafe in North Beach, she threw up her hands in disgust, complaining that it was "too busy." However, she did admit that without the map she would have needed to carry a guidebook just to find where Mama's was located.
