Streetwise San Antonio Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of San Antonio, Texas - Folding pocket size travel map [Map]

Streetwise Maps (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1, 2011

Streetwise San Antonio Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of San Antonio, Texas - Folding pocket size travel map

This map covers the following areas:
Main San Antonio Map 1:21,000
Riverwalk Map 1:12,000
San Antonio Area Map 1:230,000

San Antonio is a town with a distinct Mexican flavor, rich in history and romance. From natural caverns to manmade missions, this Texas city is a crossroads where many cultures have mixed, mingled and merged.

The STREETWISE® map of San Antonio showcases the central area of the city. The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), the Jose Antonio Navarro State Historical Site and Market Square the largest Mexican marketplace outside of Mexico are all highlighted on the map. The Tower of the Americas is prominently illustrated along with the city’s trademarked section Riverwalk, a picturesque 2.5 mile cobblestone path that borders the San Antonio River. A detailed Riverwalk" inset map details the pedestrian path and features hotels, sites, and the convention center.

The San Antonio Area map will navigate you in and around the region to places like San Antonio International Airport, Fort Sam Houston, McNay Art Museum, Sea World San Antonio, Six Flags Fiesta and to numerous missions like Mission Concepcion and Mission San Jose. There’s also Freeman Coliseum where the annual San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo is held each year.

A complete index of streets, hotels, points of interest, shopping, education, culture, transportation and parks is clearly listed on the STREETWISE® San Antonio Map.

Our pocket size map of San Antonio is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® San Antonio map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® San Antonio map today and you too can navigate San Antonio, 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 (April 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886705933
• ISBN-13: 978-1886705937
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 3.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,372 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #15 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Travel > Reference & Tips > Tourist Destinations & Museums
  • #18 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Travel > United States > Regions > South
  • #22 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Texas

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Streetwise San Antonio Map review, March 2, 2009

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Mommykins "World traveler" (Clinton, CT USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Streetwise San Antonio Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of San Antonio, Texas - Folding pocket size travel map (Map)

This map is very helpful for navigating the streets in the heart of downtown San Antonio-- especially for walkers. But if you're driving downtown and you're not familiar with the layout of the streets, then good luck, because there's not much sense to how all those little one-way streets are laid out, and even a detailed map won't help enough. However, the downtown area should really be explored on foot rather than by car. Just find an inexpensive parking lot to leave the car, and take your Streetwise map with you.

If you are driving beyond the downtown area, this map does not provide enough detail, so I'd recommend that you bring another map for that purpose. We brought a map from AAA, and we did fine using both the Streetwise map and the AAA map.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too Isolated, December 21, 2008

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Apache Wind "Bookaholic" (Somewhere Over The Rainbow) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Streetwise San Antonio Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of San Antonio, Texas - Folding pocket size travel map (Map)

I loved the plastic and the clear, colored markings tha show up real good, but was deeply disappointed that it did NOT show the entire city of San Antonio, as billed. It centered rght on the central part of SA and the Alamo, but when you want to use i to get to OTHER places aside downtown---forget it, it becomes a topography map not a road map and is very disappointing.

5.0 out of 5 stars San Antonio, January 17, 2009

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Mrs. D (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Streetwise San Antonio Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of San Antonio, Texas - Folding pocket size travel map (Map)

Found this map to very helpful and indestructible. A very nice resource to have on hand, easy to use and accurate for walking and driving.