Customer Reviews

Los Angeles & Orange Counties Street Guide 52nd Edition (Los Angeles and Orange Counties Street Guide)

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For decades, people in Los Angeles navigated their huge city using Thomas Guides. Nowadays, electronic navigation has made great inroads on the business of road atlases. But there are still good reasons to own a Thomas Guide, even if most of your navigation is done electronically.

First, it's useful to *understand* where you are going and not just follow what the electronic device tells you. For instance, I live on a street whose name is duplicated by a different street 15 miles away. Sometimes people trying to find me have gone to the other place, blindly following what their electronic device told them. Spending two minutes with your Thomas Guide before you go somewhere new can be very useful.

Second, the Thomas Guide never breaks, loses touch with its signal, or has its battery run out.

Third, the Thomas Guide, unlike many electronic sources, tells you what city you're in.

I've always enjoyed using the Thomas Guide. I'd give it five stars if they printed it on somewhat larger pages in bigger type--it can be hard to read in dim light.

The book was like new and exactly as promised. It came in a very timely manner. I would purchase from them again.

Greetings!

Hey! It's the Thomas Bros. Guide! What more can I say? It helps you to get Un-Lost if you don't plan,
and it helps you to plan when you're sick of getting lost! They've been a part of my parents automotive
navigation since before I was born (Many moons ago...), and I just recently picked a NEW ONE up for
myself, because there are times when I just don't want to get lost. I suggest that YOU do the Same!

I use Google Maps for almost everything now. Paper street guides are dead! Cannot read the printed text on these guides. I use an older guide for reference, but these are now so outdated with Google maps on smart phones. Also, they could REALLY drop the price on these guides, they have cut a ton out of the POI index and they are now updated in Bangalore India since Rand McNally bought them.

They need to wakeup and make a powerful IPhone app where you can zoom in on the pages and do searches. And also be able to click on the POI for websites and overlay airphotos, panorama points; etc.

They could also sell their page grid in kml format for business use, since there currently is no page and grid lookup system on Google Maps or Google Earth. Someone will get wind of this and make a grid reference system and make a LOT of money. Maybe Google will wake up and do it?

Rand McNally management is in the dark ages.