I can't form an opinion on this either way because we didn't use it on our trip. Cabs were cheap enough that we didn't need the map. There's so much to see and all the major sites are well known, so even though there was a language barrier at times, the cab driver would eventually get what we were saying (enough to get us to the pyramids, etc...) and the rest of the time we were on a bus or plane to the other major sites. The info in our guide books was enough extra info for us.