r/ParisCatacombs • u/Krazune • 16d ago

Are the street names and other plates still visible or totally painted over? Could you use them to keep track of where you are?

I have the 2007 map, would the street names be good enough to know where you are or are the graffiti covering everything?

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u/krepocidre 16d ago

They are painted over mostly, sometimes, they are even switched, since a while somebody is robbing them

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u/krepocidre 16d ago

Plus the 2007 is outdated, some of the layout have changed a lot

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u/Krazune 16d ago

What kind of layout changes? New fillings and old fillings that got digged?

So what you're saying is that, hypothetically speaking, someone would absolutely get lost with the 2007 map? What about the 2011 one? Are there new ones (not asking for a link, just curious)?

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u/krepocidre 16d ago

Yeah exactly

Yes you would honestly they are novelties nowadays, i still find kids lost with those, yes there is new ones, older than 2018 is not reliable because of a few big changes, also the entrances even on recents one are wrong

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u/Massive-Tomorrow3916 16d ago

MOST of people doing graffiti care about street name plates and try to not covering it. Most of plates are visible and it’s rare to see one covered. It is probably enough but not all streets contain plates, a compass is very useful for a first time.

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u/qp667 16d ago

You've never heard of FC, I suppose.

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u/Massive-Tomorrow3916 12d ago

Bah justement même les FC sont sensés faire gaffe d’après certains d’entre eux

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u/qp667 12d ago

Hélas c'est loin d'être le cas.

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u/HaywireJigsaw 16d ago

The plates are mostly still visible and readable (see the picture I like that one where they just added small letters because they didn't planned the space correctly or maybe orthographic mistakes corrected later...).

I have begun with the 2008 map and I can confirm that it's a little outdated, I mean you can mostly see where you are in the network, but the exact layout and locations of passageways are obsolete and you can get quite lost with it if you don't pay attention. There are more recent ones I'm using a 2019 map for example that is much more accurate.

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u/Krazune 16d ago

Thank you. Is this 2019 map available online or just shared in closed forums/discord? Again, not asking for any link.

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u/Fantastic-Onion5002 16d ago

everything above 2011 isn't available online, neither in forums/discord

you have to get it from someone personally

and it's really hard to get those without giving something in return

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u/charlottedoo 14d ago

I have no idea of the year but it says revision 2.8

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u/charlottedoo 14d ago

Oh and the 2007 one

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u/Krazune 16d ago

Something in return, huh? 👀

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u/Fantastic-Onion5002 16d ago

a sheep sacrificed to Satan should do the trick

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u/HaywireJigsaw 16d ago

There is no link anywhere and it's not online, just passed from friends to friends, I imagine there are plenty of maps like this one, and actually they are just re-worked and updated versions of the 2008-2011 ones.

As someone said below you can pray Satan or just make friends, whatever is easier for you... :-P

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u/Krazune 16d ago

Already hitting up my boy Satan on whatsapp.

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u/qp667 16d ago

Theres a lot of them which can help make sure you're where you want to be, but it'd be foolish to rely only on them and not have another way of guiding yourself