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Where to get maps for Indian Himalaya?

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 rockwing 14 Mar 2016
Can anyone give any good resources of modern[ish] maps of the Himachal Pradesh or Jammu & Kashmir regions of the Indian Himalaya?
 hokkyokusei 14 Mar 2016
In reply to lewismansell:

Have you checked Stanfords?
http://www.stanfords.co.uk/
 full stottie 14 Mar 2016
In reply to lewismansell:

Stanfords of London used to sell the TPC series (Tactical Pilotage Charts) of many remote areas. I think they are gradually being withdrawn from public sale (sensitive military information?) but I bought some for East Africa and for Azerbaijan which were excellent. In the latter case, our Russian and Azerbaijani hosts had never seen anything so detailed.

If you can go to the store, they'd help you out I'm sure. Otherwise, use their website, but I couldn't find a key to the map numbers on there. Maybe they are unavailable for the regions you want, but worth a try.

Dave
 Adam_Turner 14 Mar 2016
In reply to lewismansell:

As above. If it's going to be the Karakorum area you are thinking, I've never been able to find decent maps because of the military censorship.
 Mr. Lee 14 Mar 2016
In reply to lewismansell:

For my last big trip I used Google Maps to make my own custom maps, which I could label as I chose. They could also be exported to Google Earth to generate 3D versions. For expedition stuff they were practically more useful and any map commercially available map. Depends what you want a map though I appreciate. The Alpine Club have a lot of digital maps freely available in case you're a member.
 cwarby 14 Mar 2016
In reply to lewismansell:

Years ago I went to China/Tibet. The guy who runs this place had maps/satellite maps of the area. Talk to him, if he cannot help, you're on a loser.
http://www.themapshop.co.uk/

Chris
 Dauphin 14 Mar 2016
In reply to lewismansell:
You'll likely have to make yr own. There may be a few OS (open source) ones floating about. The Indian government is very sensitive about the area, essentially the place is one great military base. You can pick up badly imagined local trekking maps which are reasonable for macro navigation, often they get stuff totally wrong. If you take a GPS unit with you, its totally illegal, people have been picked up by the army and put away, so don't get it out in front of locals. If you are going off the main valleys, youll need local guys to support you. IMF should have the most up to date topography.

D
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 beckycoles 14 Mar 2016
In reply to lewismansell:

I found this French site recently. If you hunt about you might find the area you're looking for

http://blankonthemap.free.fr/1_accueil/index.php?code=20051510

 apache 15 Mar 2016
In reply to lewismansell:

I'd definitely make my own. www.mapstor.com will do Russian topo maps at 1:100,000 and 1:200,000 as well as US maps at 1:250000; these cover pretty well the whole of the Indian Himalayas. It's possible to montage them (they're georeferenced) to get seamles coverage (I did one for the Russian 1:100 and US 1:250). Once they're montaged you can laminate and cross reference to google earth, though obviously you cannot take google earth up the hill with you!
 pdone 15 Mar 2016
In reply to lewismansell:
You might like to try this site
http://www.67hours.co.uk/mountaineering/mapping

 Damo 15 Mar 2016
In reply to lewismansell:

Have a look at: http://loadmap.net and http://pahar.in/mountain-maps/

As Big says, printing out Google Earth imagery really is best. Most paper maps available now are pretty poor in comparison.

The Olizane maps of Ladakh - South, Central & North - are very nice but have many small errors in terms of heights and names.

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