Customer Reviews

Streetwise Philadelphia Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Philadelphia, PA - Folding pocket size travel map with Septa metro map, bus map

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In a 4 day business trip, I used this steet guide extensively, and found it to well worth the price. I wear bifocals, and yet found the guide easy to use. It also is very handy,as it easily fits into a coat pocket.

This has everything you need. I used every map on it - city, historic area, subways, busses and general area. It is plastic laminated and folds to a convenient size. This is a must for seeing Philadelphia.

This worked great for me! If you are interested in getting around historic Philly it is super. We carried it everywhere and used it several times every day. It's good for finding your way or identifying one of the dozen historical buildings or sites in the area. First time tourists...buy this.

I love the Streetwise Maps. I have one for NYC too. It helps you get around in an informative way. Very handy when traveling through the city and beyond.

Good laminated map- the street names are not too small so for me (I'm in my 50s) it was great. I have purchased maps before that required a magnifiying glass to read.

As other reviewers pointed out, this is only "city center". When I used it, I did end up going just off the map's borders a few times but I was all-right and found my way back home. The map is well made, laminated, has major points of interest noted. I'd recommend it. Definitely nicer than those huge maps at the gas stations or cheap freebies. After using a Knopf mapguide, I must say though that they are my favorite maps by far, but their selection is very limited and doesn't include Philly. For a nice Philly map, your other option besides this would be to get the Moleskine, which is more like a map/journal, but has full map and transportation coverage and certainly has more detail and more coverage area than this Streetwise.

The map of Philadelphia is perfect for visitors who want to see the important sights. It's clearly written and I love that it's laminated so that it doesn't tear. It's easy to carry in a purse - not bulky. I know it's going to come in very handy on my trip to Philly next month.

I am living abroad and will be moving the Philadelphia in a few months. I'm currently looking for both jobs and apartments as well as trying to get a feel for the city before my wife and I arrive. This map looked like a great choice. Unfortunately, it was not.
The map has several parts, including a very large scale highway map, but what I was looking for was a "streets of Philly" map, and judging from the name of this map, that's what I thought I was getting. However, according to this map, Philadelphia consists only of what's between South Street and Fairmont Ave, between UPenn campus and the river. Forget West Philly or North Philly, forget Germantown/Mt. Airy (an area where I am specifically interested in living), forget Temple University or Fishtown/Northern Liberties/Kensington, forget Queen Village/Bella Vista/Passyunk Square - these major areas of the city are either completely missing or cut off after a few streets. I mean, there's an arrow mark on the map that says "Italian Market, 2 Blocks South"! The Italian Market is a fixture of South Philly, and it's not even on this map!
If I lived in the US now I'd be sending this map back. As it is, it would cost me as much in postage as I paid for it, so instead I'm using it as a bookmark for Anderson's "The Code of the Street" (btw, Germantown Avenue, which figures largely in Anderson's book, is also missing from this map). After that... maybe I'll iron the map into an interesting placemat. I mean, it is well laminated. (And that's about the best I can say for this waste of $7.00 plus shipping to Japan.)
Rather than take a chance on another sight-unseen map, I'm just printing off Google's map pages and taping them together. If you are looking for a map of Philadelphia and thinking about this one, look elsewhere.

While the laminate is great, the map is not of Philadelphia but a small part of the city. Not what I wanted.

I normally love these maps, but the Philly one is terrible for getting to a Phillies game. It still lists Veteran's stadium as the ballpark, but this was demolished two years ago. In addition, there is no detail view of this section of town. This map is good overall though, and good for center city, just not for the game.