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 Good tourist map Mar 24, 2006
I have used several Insight Fleximaps for travel, and find them to be very good. The map is easy to read, and the tourist info seems to hit the right level of detail.
The laminated cover also permits circling your highlights (with specially designed pens) and removing the marks later with a damp cloth. Recommended!!
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 Durable but missing a few things Feb 06, 2006
The primary advantage of the Fleximap is its durable plastic coating. It is also flexible enough to fold in half to fit into a pants pocket (it still wouldn't fit in my shirt pocket though). This new edition seems to be reasonably up to date, showing the location of the Royalton Hotel I am staying at. One side has a detailed map showing most the important areas of Shanghai and is very easy to read with its color scheme. The other side has three small maps covering the Shanghai area, a very small (barely readable) subway map, indices for streets and places of interest, plus descriptions of about three dozen places to visit and shop. I could have done without the text for these suggested sights as they are in the usual guide books and would preferred to have seen the space used for more map area.
This brings me to the what is missing from the Shanghai Fleximap. There are no maps for Suzhou and Hangzhou, major tourist destinations surrounding Shanghai. The other major omission is street and place names in Chinese, which would be useful in navigating Shanghai (especially when communicating with a taxi driver or other local who does not understand English). I ended up also buying the Periplus map for Shanghai, which does not have the durable plastic finish, but shows more of Shanghai and with more detail, with many names in Chinese as well as English, plus has maps of Suzhou and Hangzhou. It should be noted that the current (as of this review, 2005/2006 edition) Periplus map is slightly dated in comparison to the newer Fleximap (for example, the text incorrectly states that Hongqiao airport handles all flights even though the map does show the newer Pudong International airport).
If I were to only get one Shanghai map, I would go for the Periplus for its extra features, but I do like the Fleximap's construction.
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