Does anyone know of a website that is like Mapquest for Italy?

I had great success with mappy.com

Geralyn

Also www.viamichelin.com is great for route planning between towns and I think it works for individual addresses as well.

Another choice is Google Maps which now has good coverage of Italy and some of the rest of Europe.

I have tried at various times and with good success, Mappy, Maporama, MapQuest, Multimap, and the new Google one, but I still think ViaMichelin is the best.

Definitely viamichelin.

viaMichelin, if for no other reason than you get to say hello to Bibendum.

But really, viaMichelin's routing is superior. There was a thread on this in April, in which it was shown by yours truly that Google's itinerary/route lead someone straight through Arezzo, adding at least a half hour to the drive, whereas viaMichelin used the autostrada around the city.

http://slowtalk.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/5761018721/m...981091041#5981091041

I love viamichelin and have found Google Earth a tremendous supplement since it lets you see what the real world locations and areas look like.

If you are interested specifically in Venice, this is a great site
http://www.venicexplorer.net/

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Originally posted by g-jah:
Does anyone know of a website that is like Mapquest for Italy?

DO NOT, repeat do NOT use mapquest for Europe. They are totally clueless and worse than useless to try to use. We were better off with just the TCI maps. The ONLY thing Mapquest was good for was directions out of Termini.

I have to say, between maporama, mappy, multimap and viamichelin, I go with viamichelin.com 90% of the time for everything except Venice. As caplanco pointed out, venicexplorer.net is a prime resource for locating anything here.

I would NOT use Google for addresses in Italy. I just returned from Rome and found that Google often misses locations by quite a bit. Such mistakes would probably be ok in cities with rectangular blocks and straight, numbered streets like NYC. However, I wasted a lot of time looking for restaurants and missed my reservations in Rome which has many narrow and windy streets.

I would recommend Mappy.com which is excellent. I have not used maporama or viamichelin and thus cannot comment on these.

Another Kudo for mappy.com. Have used it for three trips to Italy. What I like most of all is that is shows the road signs on the directions which is very helpfull.