Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #352614 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 392 pages

Customer Reviews

The industry standard, but a rather steep learning curve
Thomas guides are used by Police, Fire, Ambulances, etc., and thus should be considered a highly accurate mapping product.

If you've used Thomas guide's in the past, you won't have any trouble with this one.

If you've never used a Thomas guide, you may have a bit of trouble understanding the layout and structure of the guide at first. Intuitive is not a word I would use to describe this product, but once you understand how to use it, you will find everything you could need.

Improved Mapbook
Thomas Brothers produce the best street map books for California cities, because they are accurate, detailed, have great street and landmark indexes, and are easier to use and read than fold-out maps. I have used them regularly from the 1970s. I think that their new formating in the protrait style is an improvement over their old landscape style map books, because the maps appear to be clearer and show a little more area per map.

Good resource, but paper could be better quality
This is a good resource, as it provides good detail at street name level, which most other local maps don't provide.

However the paper quality this is printed on is not great, the paper is quite thin and with heavy use, I can imagine the pages becoming creased or torn. This needs to be printed on thicker or tear proof paper.

Also this is a heavy book and therefore not easy to carry around. The map continuation is not logical, if you are following a road which goes off the page, it is not followed on in a logical sequence, so you have to flip quite a number of pages to get to the same place and I think some detail is lost between the middle bindings and edges of pages.