Michelin Maps: Yellow series

The old yellow maps are useful, but if you are driving, prudent safety would necessitate a "navigator" in the passenger seat. I know, I have tried to drive solo in unfamiliar areas, and its very hard to concentrate on driving and reading a map. Once Nav systems become more plentiful on rental cars, the yellow maps become helpful for general areas, but the yellow maps are useless for navigating in "centre ville" or finding a country hotel - the detail is just missing. In fact, detailed city maps are usually better in the Michelin Red or Green guides. And if you think navigating the roads in France are bad, try England off the Motorways !!

Jim --that's precisely why I am NOT deleting the post. You're saving a lot of people from playing hunt and seek.

Dear Karen,

If the message violates your guidelines, please, by all means delete it or any part of it that you wish. I was just trying to help those trying to find these maps - which Michelin USA has stopped importing - and therefore are hard to find.

Jim

Dear Jim:

Usually, we'd delete your post as out and out advertising. BUT == as you're performing a "service," we'll let it go. Hope you'll add other posts to the discussion board!

Hi all,

I stumbled onto your discussion quite by accident. I am with a company called Language Quest Traveler and we do carry the entire line of Michelin France local maps (Yellow outside color). We are located in Mt Shasta, CA. Here is the link to our France map page.

http://www.languagequest.com/traveler/home...p;region=Europe

Just scroll down the page to the publisher, Michelin. (The publishers are listed alphabetically). The local maps (the "yellow" maps) are the 300-series.

Or, go to the Michelin Local Map selector page:

http://www.languagequest.com/traveler/trav..._map_select.php

Here you will find a map of France with the local map numbers indicated. Just click on a number and you will see a descriptiion of the map. (Click on "Click Here to see Map Coverage" to see more detail of the area covered.)

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Jim Havlice
Customer Service
Language Quest Traveler
530-018-9540

Karen, it will have to be that "sooner than later" - hopefully - because e-Bay doesn't have what I am looking for. Thanks again. Alex

I certainly hope so and am counting on you to make it sooner than later!! Then you can go on your "old" map hunt!

You'll find them. Have you looked on EBAY??

Thank you much for the prompt reply, Karen.

The Yellow maps I am talking about do not have the word "local" anywhere. I have picked one at random and I will try to describe it to you: Front cover from top to bottom:
Map No. (in this case No.75) and words "avec index touristique", Name of map (in this case Bordeaux, Périgueux, Tulle), scale of map: 1cm=2km, a small picture of the map showing - again in this case - that the map stretches from Bordeaux in the west to a little east of Tulle and from Brantôme in the north to la Réole in the south.
Finally at the bottom the words "Carte routière et touristique" MICHELIN, address and phone"

The maps are a bright yellow and on the back there is a map of France showing all such Yellow maps available with their numbers.

It just accurred to me that there is a local book store which used to have a very well stocked map section and I would expect they might still have some of these maps. Worth checking out.

Hi Alex,

Are all Michelin maps with a yellow outside in the same series? or is there an older and newer series of "Yellow" maps? If there is just one "Yellow" series, are these the maps that have "local" printed on their covers? (I guess to distinguish them from the "Orange" "Regional" maps?)

If there's only one Yellow series, and it's of local maps, are there particular ones you wanted?

The reason for all my questions is I noticed tonight that the Monoprix right across the street had a rack of yellow local Michelin maps, and if there were specific ones you were looking for, I could see if they had them.

Marc

Hi again, Karen and thank you very much for the link. It is of interest even though they do not have the older "Yellow" series of maps.

I wish I were in Paris right now walking along the Rive Gauche. I know I have seen there in some of the book vendors' shacks little piles of the yellow maps. Who knows: I may get back there yet. Cheers, Alex

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oh dear ....losing it and WAYYYYYYY too quickly. My apologies.

Thank you Karen. But....where is the list? Or the "link"? Alex

Alex: Here's a listing of Michelin maps. Attn: the yellow ones tend to be at least three years old. The way France's road system is expanding, it's more than possible that new roads will have been constructed since the last printing.

LOOK at the date!

Bon Voyage,

I found out in a bookstore during a trip last year that the Michelin Yellow maps have been discontinued and replaced by a totally new set with a completely different pattern of coverage.

My question is does anyone know of any place or any way to purchase some of the old Yellow set, please? Many thanks, Alex