Streetwise Maps, a sidelines staple for indie booksellers and go-to guide for travelers for more than three decades, has gone out of business. On the company's website, owners Michael and Andrika Brown wrote: "It's not the years, it's the miles... For over 30 years we have traveled the globe walking mile, by mile, by mile. Through the most beautiful cities in the world we explored tiny streets and grand boulevards, passages, alleys, dead ends, the sublime and the gritty, the familiar and the unknown, all in the quest to make the best map possible....
"So now, after all the miles, all the notes, all the sketches and the reams of research material, it's finally time to set aside the tools and retire (cue the band, release the confetti!!). It's time for a new adventure. Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this and to all of you who came along on the journey, this fiesta of a life. We are forever grateful."