Customer Reviews

The U.S.A. Comprehensive Public Camping Guide (Lower 48), Vol. 2: California, Nevada

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I just received Volume's 1 and 2 today (Washington/Oregon and California/Nevada today, and am returning them tomorrow. They are the worst camping resources I have ever seen. Literally they are nothing more than alpha lists of public campgrounds organized by state with a handful of low res JPEG images thrown in, all in a Word document. The two that I bought were two megabits and four megabits respectively in total size. They could have put all ten volumes on a single CD and had room left over for a listing of every retaurant, gas station, and parts store in America. Amazing that someone else rated this five stars; I can only assume it was the author or a friend of the author.

As a CD ROM, I naturally assumed that this would be an interactive version of a book. Not a chance, it's just text, and the pages scroll down the screen with two pages per screen, except that it's not even formatted to fit a normal screen, so you have to scroll down to finish a page, and then scroll back up to start the opposing page. The information contained therein is just publicly available facts that could be obtained from numerous government websites, all without editorial comment or useful descriptions. I don't know why Amazon would even carry this product, or if they feel they have to carry everything, they should at least give you a warning.

Comprehensive is right, tells you things the others don't, user friendly, not a lot of coded abbreviations to look up. Pop the CD in the lap top, search the city and you are there. All you need now is a road map and a cell phone Book has lots of handy phone numbers and all the information you'll need about where you are going. Don't have a lap top, then get the book its a must have!