Once you accept these limitations paper maps not so bad. For that a GPS or phone with a map is better (see below). This inconsistency with road and place ‘hierarchy’ is probably as old a complaint as mapping itself.įor navigating along the main ‘N’ highways in a motorhome the recommended maps are fine. But using them for reliable navigation and accurate position-finding on more obscure southern Moroccan back roads or tracks may be a hit and miss affair. The same can be said for villages many established settlements on a par with other locally depicted places are missing, while some towns are given excessive prominence for what you’ll find there. What also becomes evident is how many interesting and easily navigable pistes there are in Morocco which don’t appear on these paper maps. Elsewhere roads sealed for years are not shown at all. Some minor routes shown as sealed are in fact little-used pistes, and more commonly pistes depicted identically on several maps do not match the orientation shown, or don’t exist at all. One thing quickly becomes clear: while you won’t get lost and die of thirst relying these maps, they’re all surprisingly inaccurate and tend to copy each other’s errors. ![]() ![]() There are up to a dozen Morocco country maps in print and taking into account scale, price, clarity, date of publication, presence of a long/lat grid and so on, the maps below are recommended for on and off-highway travel in the south of Morocco.
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