It has essential information such as width and height restrictions and other road safety information. The French motorway network or autoroute system consists largely of toll roads, except around large cities and in parts of the north.

For France, I prefer Michelin maps at regional scale and a map for every region I'm driving through. The whole of France and Belgium is shown on one side of the sheet to give continuous coverage of the country. Satellite-derived base with colouring for the forested areas and boundaries of national or regional parks shows the topography.

Read our blog post on Finding your way with maps where Meli explains which factors are most important when selecting a road atlas. Now based on IGN’s digital data used to produce the country’s topographic survey at more detailed scales, presentation has been sharpened to make small local roads stand out better. The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 (formerly the Distance Selling Regulations) provide consumers with the right to a 'cooling-off' period to allow you to change your mind. In the mountainous regions the maps have bold, very effective relief shading, with a large number of names of peaks, passes, and other topographic features.

Nothing can beat a paper map for spreading it across the hotel bed to examine all of the possibilities for the next day. Purchased this map to replace my old road atlas of France, the new atlas is of poor quality and scaling. Michelin mapping is great if you require detailed information to allow you to make an informed choice while navigating your route.If they didn’t include a map of the whole of Europe, they could have fitted a more detailed map of France in.