Something not really vet-related – for travellers

If you travel a bit, say to conferences, you may every now and then find yourself looking for information on your destination. As far as cities in North America, Australia + New Zealand and Europe are concerned there is a nice database you can either access online or download for free and use offline. It contains 200 cities with various types of information including maps.  There are also packages  for the continents or you can download just individual cities. The name of the site is

Schmap – Map Guides and Map Widgets

What a name! In German it (Schmap) might be onomatopoeically used to emulate a person munching heavily away on something.

Friedhelm Rump