2008 Toronto Urban Maps Now Available

West Queen West MapSome of you may have already spotted the new graphics in the lower right hand side of this page, but today we're ready to officially announce the arrival of our 2008 Toronto maps.

Hot off the press, the 2008 version of blogTO's urban guides to different Toronto neighbourhoods now numbers seven:

West Queen West + Liberty Village (including Dundas West and Ossington)
King West + Queen West
Little Italy + The Annex
Parkdale + Roncesvalles Village
Leslieville + Riverside
St. Lawrence Market + The Distillery District (including King East)
The Danforth

This year the maps are printed on 100% recycled paper and made carbon neutral by Zerofootprint. We've also made a number of design tweaks, skinned them with new covers, added TTC routes and updated them with the newest restaurants, cafes, stores and other must-visit spots in each neighbourhood.

For more information or to find out how to get some copies for yourself, check out our Toronto Maps page.

Reader Reviews and Comments

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Still no option to download them?

I'm glad you're concerned about being carbon-neutral but if you made them available for download, people like me could just get the maps as PDFs and not have to use any paper at all.

Posted by: Rene at June 19, 2008 11:12 AM

Rene - the maps are printed on paper that is 21 inches wide by 16.5 inches tall. Most people don't have printers that can accomodate this sort of format. So, for the web, we thought it would be better to build out our specific neighbourhood sections - like http://www.blogto.com/leslieville - or to use our interactive Toronto map:

http://blogto.com/torontomap/

Posted by: Tim at June 19, 2008 11:23 AM

The interactive maps are cool, as well as the individual neighbourhood sections, but there are times when I'm out on the town with my laptop and it would be nice to be able to bring up the info even if I can't get online at the time.

I'll just save the neighbourhood pages I might need. The maps look great -- I'm sure I'll pick up the paper copies soon, but it would still be nice to have the PDF option for the geeks like me out there...there might be more of us than you think.

Posted by: Rene at June 19, 2008 11:35 AM

Why no High Park / Bloor West love?

Posted by: Anrky Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 12:22 PM

Rene, you could always print to pdf instead of saving the html. When you have the option to select printer, just pick adobe pdf, hit print, give it a filename, and voila.

Posted by: Ryan L. at June 19, 2008 1:38 PM

@Ryan L.:

I could, but the neighbourhood pages don't have anywhere near the information the maps do. Better than nothing though...thanks for the tip.

Posted by: Rene at June 19, 2008 2:09 PM

Would be nice if those Toronto Urban Maps could be merged with the streetcar/bus routes of the beta version of the new TTC website somehow. Maybe smaller versions of a 500 m radius, to be printed to PDF.

Posted by: W. K. Lis at June 19, 2008 3:09 PM

The neighbourhood section about St. Lawrence Market is about the market only, and not about the neighbourhood.

Posted by: Maria at June 19, 2008 3:50 PM

Question for anyone involved in the map making. If someone were to order them from the site, what size package do they get shipped in? Would it fit in a standard P.O. Box?

Posted by: Ryan L. at June 19, 2008 4:31 PM

@Maria - True. The King East page will give you more info about the neighbourhood surrounding the St. Lawrence Market.

@Ryan - Assuming you're only ordering one set of maps it should fit in a standard P.O. Box.

Posted by: Tim at June 19, 2008 4:51 PM

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