Mumbai detailed street map

Full detail map - 3028 x 6771 pixels

Small map – 1024 x 2294 pixels

I had been looking for a Mumbai map to learn about the streets and highways I hadn’t seen. Growing up in south Mumbai, I hadn’t the faintest idea about streets in Sakinaka, Ghatkopar etc. The best online map I had seen is what Google Earth provided. But that didn’t have street names; so no way to trace the Eastern Express highway.

Attached is a high resolution detailed street map of Mumbai. And there is a story on how I build it.

The small location maps came from http://www.aboutmumbai.com/areamap.asp

I then took them piece by piece and arranged them like a jigsaw puzzle. The exercise took 3 hours and was super fun. Thank you Photoshop.

There are some caveats to the map.

1. Some of the detailed maps were at different zoom levels – so I had to resize them so that streets connected. Unfortunately this affects the text clarity.

2. Some areas are completely missing; I couldn’t find a map for them. For e.g. North of Kurla is blank.

3. I believe the original maps were scanned from a paper map – so rejoining them wasn’t easy. You will see some streets don’t line up perfectly.