Hi all,

Yeah yeah, I know this isnt security related, but hey, this is general chit chat...

Hopefully one of our European members(or intrepid American/Canadian travellers) can help me out with this.

I am looking for a good website for finding topographic maps of Europe(or individual countries, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands to name a few that I am interested in) in a digital format that might integrate with a gps plugged into my laptop or handheld. This is in preparation for a hiking/mt. biking trip, hopefully this summer.

I have found a few good sites for topo maps of the various countries, but those were all paper maps, and I really want to integrate this with a gps on my laptop / handheld.

The sites I have found are

http://www.omnimap.com/

which has listings of topo maps for many many countries, all paper

and
http://www.traildatabase.org/countries/indexmap.html

which isn't really a map site, but if you dig down in each country you may find links to the individual coutries geological survey department.

So, is there a good source, on CD, for topo maps from accross Europe? Hopefully 1:25000 scale or similar, but lower resolution maps will do for a start.

Road maps I can find easily, but the almighty google has failed me for topo maps, unless I am searching for something completely wrong.

If I search google for

Europe Topographic maps

all I get are charts, and topo maps of the US.

To find the two links I did find, I had to search for

Europe hiking

and then look fairly deep into sublinks.

Surely there must be a good source for digital maps.

Thanks,

IchNiSan