Michelin North America Road Atlas Medium Format

by Guides Touristiques Michelin and Michelin

Book Overview

Michelin's midsize North American Road Atlas is designed for the way you drive with its easy-to-use tiled format. Enroute navigation is a snap with the continuous layout approach, particularly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2067106759
• ISBN13: 9782067106758
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Michelin Travel Publications
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.1" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

awesome!

A friend of mine gave me this atlas for my birthday, which was a thoughtful gesture as I always manage to get lost. The first thing I noticed about the atlas was it was not state by state, which seemed odd to me at first. Once I figured out exactly how the Michelin system worked, it was so easy! This atlas is the best! Gone are the days when I run out of state and then have to pull over to find what page the next state begins on, then find where my road continues on in that state, etc... Now, I just flip to the page the little arrows tell me to go to and my road begins where it left off on the other page.

A revolution in North American road atlases

This is the first road atlas of North America to have its maps oriented geographically rather than in the traditional state-by-state format. It is easy to use, intuitive, and designed for people who use their atlas on the road. Future versions of this atlas could improve by preserving detail on both sides of international borders.While road atlases of Europe have been arranged in geographical format for decades, North American road atlases have traditionally mapped each state or province individually over one or two pages, each at a different map scale, and in alphabetical order (at least for the USA). The Michelin approach, to map the whole country at the same scale, and arrange the maps on a geographic grid, where the maps begin at one coast. As the reader turns pages the maps proceed, west-to-east, coast-to-coast. As many other reviewers have already commented, this intuitive format (turn a single page as you drive off the edge of the map) is much easier to use. This atlas is also well designed with pleasant colors and easy to read symbols, a Michelin hallmark. My only criticism of this atlas would be that maps which show land on both sides of an international borders should not "dim" the parts of the map which are not in the country of interest. For example many roads in Canada are not plotted and the landscape is "dimmed" on the panels which detail northern Maine, or Washington state. A Michelin road atlas of Europe from the 1980's did not dim out the road network of East Germany where it occupied the same page as West Germany, despite that traveling on most of the mapped roads was forbidden for the western Europeans who were most likely to have the book! With cross-border travel increasingly popular in North America lately, hiding detail on maps which show both sides of a border is unnecessary and creates extra work for the reader.Given the amount of high-quality geospatial data available today, I hope that Michelin will someday publish similar atlases, perhaps with regional scope, at even higher resolution, perhaps similar to the wonderful 1:200,000 scale atlases they publish for France and other parts of Europe.

Great for everyone!

As a travelling college student, I count on a good atlas to lead me to my destinations. Long a user of the Rand McNally, I decided to try out this Micehlin atlas. This is by far the absolute best atlas every made. The person who thought up the idea of setting it up so you turn the pages as you drive is a total genius and should be given an award. I live around the area of the Michelin Headquarters, and if I ever meet anyone that works in their atlas/map department I'll thank them repeatedly. All of these reviews have been right on, and this atlas definitely deserves 5 stars, if not many more. However the first review was quite disappointing. The references to the maps did not even apply, as this is for an atlas...which is totally different from a regular map. Any person that does not find this atlas incredibly helpful is either illiterate or just thick. And apparently he/she didn't read the directions: "Please be sure to focus your comments on the book's content." Kudos to the project manager and all the brains that thought this beauty up...can't wait 'til the next one comes out!!

Great Atlas!

Great Atlas! I travel alot for work and I love this. I don't understand the review that said these are "Mapquest maps?" The maps are detailed enough to be helpful, yet uncluttered so you can read them riding down the road at 70 mph. This atlas is more compact than the bulky Rand McNally that I am used to. It tucks away neatly in the seatback pocket! I love the format of this atlas as well. You no longer need to hunt for a different map when you cross the state line. If it's not on the adjacent page, it tells you what page number to turn to. The same goes for the city blow-ups. I would recommend this map to anyone! Great concept and great execution Michelin!

Highly recommend this innovative atlas

This new spiral bound road atlas gives extensive coverage of North America. This includes city and local maps, city to city distances and driving times (in miles and kilometres). Also given are road condition, update telephone numbers and local driving requirements as well as monthly climate conditions for all major north American cities. The US section includes large scale maps for the northeast corridor. All place names are clearly indexed and colour coded.In my opinion the most significant new feature is the way that this atlas is organized, each country is divided into a grid. Turn the page and view the region to the east or west in a logical manner. Other quick location reference guides are printed on each map and there is a half inch overlap in map data. This is different than most other North American road atlases where generally each state is a separate map arranged alphabetically.For a long road trip I would choose this atlas.