Maps

Maps are a crucial tool for newcomers trying to learn how to navigate in a new city. Decent street maps of Belgrade can be purchased from most kiosks, book &amp; magazine shops or tourist offices.

Scanned Maps
Here two decent street maps:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1237/1429328125_6d5a06f974_z.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/limbic/1429328125/

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1354/1430196806_f21653ec24_z.jpg [http://flickr.com/photos/limbic/1430196806/

Online maps
Unfortunately Belgrade is not well served by online mapping resources. Google Maps, Microsoft Live and Yahoo Maps do not cover Belgrade very well and are effectively useless for navigation. I use two map services with any regularity: Wikimapia and B92 Maps (see them below). Planplus has fallen out of my favour.

Wikimapia
One of the best (and most fun) map resources for map geeks is Wikimapia, which is a mashup of Google maps and Wikipedia. It allows you to explore locations and annotate the maps.

Belgrade has been very well annotated and you can find out about just about any landmark by finding it on wikimapia. It is a great way to explore the city from a satellite perspective.

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An example from Wikimapia showing information boxes over Belgrade

B92 maps
B92 maps is latest addition to the Belgrade mapping scene but by far the best street finder.

http://images33.fotki.com/v1120/photos/8/85005/436298/b92_maps20080211153013-vi.jpg

 An example from B92 Maps showing Strahinjica Bana 

Planplus
http://www.planplus.co.rs

Planplus is Belgrade's only effective street map service. There are two versions, an offline version one can buy in most bookshops and an online version available at http://www.planplus.co.yu. Planplus doers a good job of providing basic map street map information, but I mostly use it to tell whether an address is within walking distance or to identify nearby landmarks. I do this because Belgrade's constant name changes mean that cab drivers sometimes will not have a clue about some street because they know it by the old name. Usually you can instruct them to head for the general area (which you know thanks to Planplus) and they will check the address with their radio controller.

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 An example from PlanPlus showing north central Belgrade