Your complete Michigan travel reference! This large-size road atlas features full-color, county-by-county maps for all of Michigan. Each county is mapped separately, along with county indexes for roads, water features and place name. Also included are county facts and narrative description with a primary parks table that lists park features and facilities. Whether your travel is business or pleasure in Michigan, this atlas has it all, including: county / state / U.S. / Interstate roads, cities and towns, federal and state lands, water features, parks, Zip Code boundaries and numbers, airports, hospitals, street address system, Township/Range/Section, ski areas, state boundaries, county boundaries, township boundaries, incorporated area boundaries, military areas, state police locations, golf courses, public boat launches, and much more. The Michigan County Atlas is printed in full color, 11-inches by 17.5-inches in size, perfect bound paperpack, on high quality paper.
After graduation from Michigan State University (BFA Industrial Design & Graphic Art) I worked for a year designing decorative furniture hardware. But my heart was elsewhere--by the end of sixth grade I had wallpapered one of my bedroom walls with maps clipped from National Geographic magazines. On the rebound, in 1978 I hooked up with Bertrand Green and designed the interior for his original Map and Globe Store in Lansing, Michigan. Then I began the production of maps of Michigan's cities in association with Mr. Green's fledgling Universal Map Enterprises. But to me the future was clear--important original cartography would need to be more than simple city street maps. Research and development of the original Michigan Regional County Map series, well-known throughout Michigan in the 1990s, began in 1982. These large-sheet folded maps were created using traditional cartographic and graphic production methods of the time--in other words, mostly by hand! Research included countless hours of on-site inspection, and map production included thousands of dollars in material expenses. Universal Map Enterprises published my first edition Michigan County Atlas in 1989, based on cartography from the regional county map series. Throughout the 1990s the regional maps were thoroughly revised and updated, but the Atlas languished as support from the publisher faded. Undaunted, in 2000 the vast project of converting my traditional cartographic design studio to digital began. Scanning of manually created map art began in 2004, followed by various conversion techniques and placement into a suitable computer application. Then, the long process of clean up, revise, and update began. Design and layout of the new Michigan County Atlas began in 2006--at a time when it was uncertain exactly how my work would ever see the light of day. Kappa Publishing Group purchased Universal Map Enterprises in 2007. Under new ownership and management, the new Universal Map Group (now the Kappa Map Group) at long last published the Michigan County Atlas, Second Edition, in November 2009.
By its very nature, the Michigan County Atlas will always remain a work in progress. New research and map updates will be included with the publication of the next edition. Thank you for your support!
