Explore the landscape and history of southern Madagascar with maps.
TROPICARTA has 59 detailed topographic maps of the region. The governments of France, and then Madagascar, published them between 1948 and 1973. Most of them are the latest editions, which are printed in full colour with a 25 metre contour interval. A few, on the other hand, are provisional editions. All however, are part of a series which covers the whole island at the scale of 1 centimetre to 1 kilometre.
Older maps use French placenames for the major towns, but newer maps use Malagasy spelling. One of its quirks is the letter n̈, which sounds like the n in thanks.
You can search through the maps by place, or phrase.
TROPICARTA stores the maps on Chomikuj. This is Poland’s largest file hosting platform, so it gives you access to hundreds of thousands of maps, 24 hours a day. Everyone can preview the maps there, and select their area of interest. Link to folder.
To download maps or folders, register with Chomikuj, and add points by card or SMS. Bon voyage!
- A city plan of Antananarivo (free download).
- The remaining 1:100 000 maps of Madagascar (interactive indexes).
- Maps from all of the Indian Ocean islands (free downloads).
- TROPICARTA has many more maps of southern Madagascar, the Seychelles, and Comoros.