European maps, in your opinion which is the best brand to buy??
I would say depends on the country.
Michelin are the best IMHO in France, you can get them in countrywide, regional or departmental format.
Like in the UK, where you can buy Geographers or AA or Phillips, every country has its own printer/publisher.
I always found the best place to buy maps in Europe, was the first truckstop, (even most of the M-way services provide good maps too) after crossing the border, or even the last one before it.
I’ve always used Michelin, they’re on ‘ring binders’ so are easy to keep open on the chosen page, other drivers might have other opinions but since I started euro work in 1985 they’ve always done me proud.
Ross.
TomTom Navigator with a Michelin map of Europe for route planning.
Geoff.
Satnav, balls to maps.
I’ve got Insight Europe atlas, 1:800k for cross-European driving, Philip’s Navigator for Britain, VKU Slovakia atlas 1:100k… and many more. Also use viamichelin.com, mapy.cz, mapy.atlas.sk and others for more up-to-date details. Don’t like google maps for some reason…
Ring bound are the best one in terms of staying open where you want them and you can also fold them over - though pages get loose rather quickly. The “wallpaper style” is the worst one, but sometimes there’s no other option. Glossy paper can be pain to read from.
I’ve found Marco Polo / World Cart maps perhaps the easiest to read, but not the best detailed ones.
VKU maps are the best for central and eastern Europe imho (well, it used to be army’s mapping office).
Overall, Michelin maps (both on paper and online) come out first - they seem to be best for western Europe, get worse as you go further east. For example there’s no Michelin map of RO or BG.
Though, I’d have something to moan about - used viamichelin.com to find a hotel in Luxembourg, not far from centre, once there was navigated to a pedestrian zone and learned form locals that the hotel was somewhere nearby airport… Vienna’s S1 bypass took a long time to appear on the online map… Czech D1 east of Olomouc does not exist on michelin maps…german A38 is shown being under construction - I used it before Christmas - it’s finished and open, apart from short stretch between jct. 7 and 8 or thereabout.
Fun starts when you’re after map of Russia that goes beyond Moscow… I’ve got Hildebrand CIS map, goes as far as Baikal, but it’s wallpaper type, also shows terrain. To follow Globetrucker convoy to Vladivostok I had to get map of China for it was the only one I could find showing that part of the world!
Laptop and tom tom for western europe i do have a euro map but the cover been missing off it that long i cant remember what one is it
the best for GERMANY is a
FALK bus & truck atlas it
costs €50, and is worth buying
has all information you will reqiure for
trouble free driveing, with bridge heights
banned routes for ADR vehicles etc, plus well laid out maps of the neighbouring countrys,
for ITALY the maps are divided into 3#
the top middle and bottom of Italy well worth
buying , for France no question the Michelien,
Michelin everytime…tyres too… 
In my experience Blayfoldex are the best for town/city maps in France, Shell Stratenboek (available in Shell Service Stations across Holland)…
Ian_Leeds:
In my experience Blayfoldex are the best for town/city maps in France, Shell Stratenboek (available in Shell Service Stations across Holland)…
Shell do one for Belgium too.
I use Autoroute, on my laptop, for finding places / streets.
I use a Michelin European map when I know where I’m delivering to, for route planning. It covers Western Europe and Switzerland, but not France or Spain.
I also have a Michelin of France, the AA version of the Falk Atlas for Germany, the AA Truckers map of UK, an Italian road Atlas but can’t remember which make and a Foldex type map of Holland.
The best maps of Italy are the set of three Brit Pete mentioned. They are usually available either on a ring binder or as a normal stapled book, it depends whats left or which they got in. You only need to buy the ones you need. I can’t remember who prints them either. 
Always make sure that the index has post codes on it.
Try looking up Santa Maria in an Italian Atlas to see why 
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Other countries have similar place name problems, St Ives in the UK is another example.
I like ring binder type atlases too, for the same reasons as bigr250. The pages come loose quite quickly though, you really have to look after them for them to last.