#1  
Old 12 Apr 2006
Registered Users
New on the HUBB
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: germany
Posts: 15
any recommendations for yemen and oman road maps?

Hello,

I intend to go to Yemen and Oman (via Djibouti). Any recommendations regarding roadmaps are highly appreciated.

Thank you in advance

Take care

Mick
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 13 Apr 2007
Registered Users
HUBB regular
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: UK
Posts: 86
How was it

Mick I want to ride from Djibouti up to UAE also and would appreciate any info you could give me on all the procedures and what the roads are like.

Cheers

Robbo
__________________
www.hardwayhome.blogspot.com
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 13 Apr 2007
Registered Users
Veteran HUBBer
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Paide, Estonia
Posts: 349
Reise-Know-How

Not too much choice. Reise-Know-How has 1:850.000 maps of both countries:

Oman
Yemen

See map sample under "Ausschnitt" link.

ITMB also has maps for both countries, somewhat larger scale, but I have found most their maps very poor (especially African).
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 13 Apr 2007
beddhist's Avatar
Contributing Member
Veteran HUBBer
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Whangarei, NZ
Posts: 2,223
Cool

For Yemen try and get a map beforehand, as the only map we could find was in Arabic only and several years old. Any maps of Oman I have seen seem to use the same source of info, as they have more or less the same errors, including Garmin's GPS World Map. In any case, Oman is building roads so fast, any map is out of date by the time it hits the shelves. These maps also seem to show what the sultan wants to have built some time in the future. We have searched for major roads on a few occasions without finding anything more than local tracks.

I'll be uploading GPS tracks and waypoints to smellybiker.com soon, to add to his GPS mapping project.
__________________
Cheers,
Peter.

Europe to NZ 2006-10
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 14 Apr 2007
Registered Users
Veteran HUBBer
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Back in Asia
Posts: 342
Cool Oman Map

Hey Mick,

Yeah mate, Lars and Peter are right, I am living in Oman now and am using a NBO map which is the basic one that you find here. I have been told that the PDO maps are better as they deal with all the oil industry in the Interior but they are hard to get.

I have been riding around the mountains here for several months now and have made some waypoints and tracks myself which I will also send to smelly biker later to include into wanderlust.

I will be riding out of Oman through Yemen in July / August toward SA and will be looking for anyone who would like to travel this way. I plan to only go as far as TZ for now and then ride down the rest of the way at a later date.

Peter, are you still in the UAE or now Iran?

Cheers
Ivan
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 14 Apr 2007
beddhist's Avatar
Contributing Member
Veteran HUBBer
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Whangarei, NZ
Posts: 2,223
I'm still in Sharjah, hosted by the ever so generous Stephan, waiting for my tyres to arrive. Sorry I missed you on the way up, but my chain was in such a state I didn't dare make a detour to Muscat, or anywhere else.
__________________
Cheers,
Peter.

Europe to NZ 2006-10
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 23 May 2007
Registered Users
Veteran HUBBer
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Istanbul TR
Posts: 464
Maps of Yemen

I am not sure if you can find road maps of Yemen on the net and from any shop. You can find in Sanaa, though not good but enough maps.

I definitely recommend to visit Hadramaut area and Mukalla. Around Sanaa and the north up to Sadaa and Huth is marvellous there.

Sure, you will like it.
__________________
"where the traveller goes, nobody knows ! "
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 23 May 2007
beddhist's Avatar
Contributing Member
Veteran HUBBer
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Whangarei, NZ
Posts: 2,223
Sad'a is definitely off limits, there is a major war being fought there now.

The only map available in Sana'a that I could find was in Arabic only, of limited use to most of us.
__________________
Cheers,
Peter.

Europe to NZ 2006-10
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 14 Jun 2007
Contributing Member
New on the HUBB
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Posts: 6
I've got a map titled Hildebrand's "United Arab Emirates, Oman". It's 1:1500000. It has explanations in French, German and English. The map has a website listed as: www.hildebrands.de, info@hildebrands.de (this last after the comma may be an e-mail address). I used it 2 years ago, and it worked for me.

Hope this helps
Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 Registered Users and/or Members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Iran, Syria, UAE, Oman & Turkey (road) maps Margus Middle East 7 23 Apr 2005 20:14
East Africa -> Yemen -> Oman -> Iran cornepol Route Planning 2 11 Jun 2003 04:16


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 23:11.