Streetwise Houston Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Houston, Texas - Folding pocket size travel map with metro light rail [Folded Map] [Map]

Streetwise Maps (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 27, 2007

Streetwise Houston Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Houston, Texas - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated metro light rail lines & stations

This map covers the following areas:
Main Houston Map 1:30,000
Downtown Houston Map 1:20,000
Houston Area Map 1:260,000

You probably didn’t know that Houston is the 4th largest city in America. The downside, its the leading city in metropolitan sprawl with high-rise towers and shopping malls spreading out forever over the low flat lands of Southeastern Texas. The upside, Houston has much to offer in terms of world class museums, fine dining, sports teams, parks and a hip party atmosphere.

The STREETWISE® map of Houston is split north to south from front to backside and covers a large swatch of west Houston in detail. Districts like the Galleria are easy to find as well as places like Rice University, Hermann Park, and Reliant Stadium and of course downtown Houston.

Downtown Houston, once the business core, is by day a bustling area filled with high-rise office buildings and hotels. To find your way you’ll need the STREETWISE® map of Houston with its inset of Downtown Houston. Without it you’ll easily get lost looking for the George R Brown Convention Center, Minute Maid Park, or the Toyota Center. There is nothing worse than driving around forever looking for something that is only minutes away. That won't happen provided you have the correct tool, like the STREETWISE® Houston Map.

The Houston Area Map will help you navigate around outlying areas of the city and it will also help you locate Houston’s two airports: George Bush International and William P. Hobby Airport.

Our pocket size map of Houston is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Houston map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Houston map today and you too can navigate Houston, Texas like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Don't leave home without STREETWISE.' --The New York Times

'STREETWISE is an absolute travel essential.' --Travel + Leisure Magazine

'In a strange city, your sense of direction is only as good as the map in your hands. The best maps to carry are published by STREETWISE.' --Chicago Daily Herald

About the Author

STREETWISE® is the first map to be designed with modern graphics and is the originator of the laminated, accordion-fold map format. We’ve set the standard that every map company has imitated but never duplicated. Our mission is to make you feel comfortable, to make you feel safe in a place where you’ve never been before and to enable you to experience a familiar place more fully.

The company was founded in 1984 by Michael Brown, who had been in international publishing for many years, setting up subsidiaries for textbook publishers. In the 1970’s, Brown traveled extensively throughout Africa, India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Brown would take a large paper map, cut out the city center, folded it up and slip it into his pocket, thus preventing him from looking like a tourist in areas where discretion is the better part of travel. This was his tool for surviving.

After many years on the road, Brown settled back in New York and decided to start his own business, based on the adaptations he had made to maps in his travels. His goal was to give someone the ability to navigate easily in unfamiliar terrain.

He started with a new map format: the accordion fold. Such a simple idea, but at the time it was revolutionary. No more struggling to fold an awkward, oversized paper map. This new format would enable the user to blend in like a native, instead of stick out like a tourist. Brown then added lamination to ensure that the map would be a lasting tool.

More important than the format was the design of the map itself. It had to be a map that not only succeeded above and beyond any map he had used, but was esthetically appealing as well. The look of it had to be as striking as the functionality. Color was introduced in a way that was never seen before in a map - vivid purple for water, soothing gray for the background of street grids, gold to highlight elements of the map. Clarity, conciseness and convenience in a very stylish package.

Building the business was a 24 hour job. Brown sold the maps during the day, zipping around Manhattan making deliveries on his Harley Davidson. At night he packed the orders and did the design work. More titles were added, each title requiring months of research and design.

Today, STREETWISE® produces over 130 titles for major destinations, regions and countries throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia. We have grown from the back of a motorcycle to selling millions of maps around the world.

Yet each title is still painstakingly researched and updated. STREETWISE® is one of the only, if not THE only map company that conducts research by walking or driving an area to ensure accuracy. After all, what good is the map if what you hold in your hands doesn’t match what you see on the street sign? This lengthy fact checking results in superior accuracy; in effect, we’ve done the work, now you have the adventure.

In the end, it’s not about the map, it’s about getting out and finding your own authentic experience wherever you go. It’s about being in a city or a region and discovering things that you never thought you would find. You can do this if you have confidence and you have confidence if you have a great map. STREETWISE® is the great map that you need.

Product Details

• Map: 1 pages
• Publisher: Streetwise Maps (December 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0935039899
• ISBN-13: 978-0935039894
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #268,004 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #56 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Texas
  • #57 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Travel > United States > Regions > South

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars HOUSTON..WELL CENTRAL HOUSTON ANYWAY, September 24, 2006

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Shannon Deason (Houston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Streetwise Houston Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Houston, Texas - Folding pocket size travel map with metro light rail (Map)

I really like these simple easy to use maps. They are well put together and highly functional. I am very familiar with Houston, but i still carry this map, because sometimes frankly you just what to be sure where something is located. The only draw back to these streetwise maps is that they only highly light the central city, which is fine if that's the only place you'll be driving, but if you need a map of the entire city then this may not be your best bet, but they are great for the most traveled areas of town. Overall, I am a huge fan of these maps.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Still shows and lists Astroworld, closed half a decade ago, May 11, 2010

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Gadgester "No Time, No Money" (Mother Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Streetwise Houston Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Houston, Texas - Folding pocket size travel map with metro light rail (Map)

So I was new to Houston and bought this map (2008 edition) to get around. I saw this place called Astroworld and Water World, so I drove with my kids to that place. Lo and behold, there was no theme park, just a big lot of grass! This is an unforgivable error -- and the park, closed in 2005 according to wikipedia, is also listed as a point of interest on this map.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Houston Map, March 13, 2009

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precious mel (Macon, Ga United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Streetwise Houston Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Houston, Texas - Folding pocket size travel map with metro light rail (Map)

This is a very useful map. It is pocket size so you can put it in your pocket or in your purse for easy access. I think this map is so easy to read and shows all the roads and the popular buildings for tourist to visit. I am glad I bought this map. Streetwise maps do an excellent job with getting you around the city.