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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I am a simple country cousin from far parts of the former Empire. As a country bumpkin I often get lost in the great city of Konstantiniye.

Who can give me a link to an interactive map ?

Golightly · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:40 am Post subject:

try google earth or google maps.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I meant a street map to help me find Akmak Cadesi and the like.

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

A street map is not much use because most of the streets have the same names:

Various combinations of :

Ataturk
Ismet Inonu
19 May
23 Nisan
Republic
Simsek

The locals often neither know nor care what the names are.

Golightly · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 11:06 am Post subject:

what about dwarf fountain street, elephany alley et al in the old part of town?

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

For tourists maybe but the new parts of Ist an A to Z would be hard to use.

tararu · Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 494

When you get to Kadik�y, ask a simit man where the PTT is (pe te te).
Akmar passage is off a street behind the PTT. On this street you will find street sellers with second hand and copied books. Just in case the simit man tries to send you to a PTT out in the middle of nowhere, the post office that l am refering to is the main one quite near the sea and ferry boats.