Customer Reviews

Rand McNally 2009 The Road Atlas Large Scale: United States (Rand Mcnally Large Scale Road Atlas USA)

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I agree that the spiral binding makes the large atlas more convenient to handle, but a *glaring drawback* of having each page a separate leaf bound together by a large plastic coil is that all the maps are split down the middle by more than an inch. When you're following a big highway and you've reached the edge of the left-hand page, it's relatively easy to find it on the right-hand page after the jump (over the page margins and the space the coil takes up), but if you're looking at local and city streets, forget trying to match them up quickly and easily and in lots of cases, at all. Plus, a large majority of the detailed inset maps (which I've always found very useful) are placed right in the center of the binding, so they get cut in half too, rendering them less readable and less navigable. Seems like no one at Rand McNally has actually used this version of the atlas...or else they might have noticed how frustrating and confusing the current layout is in combination with the spiral binding.

Rand McNally 2009 The Road Atlas Large Scale: United States (Rand Mcnally Large Scale Road Atlas USA)

Great to have an up to date Atlas with many bonus features. The list of hotel chain 800 numbers is especially useful.

A bit disappointed in this atlas as their choices of highway/road colors make it hard to discern all but the small state/county roads and bold interstates. Those in-between are all pink... some skinny lines, some a wee bit thicker. Greatly prefer the easier-on-the-eyes American Map series after using one of those in the past.
Other than the ugliness of the maps, it's a very good reference but can't give it more than 3 stars due to the shortcomings.

We have been buying a new map every year for a long time. This is by far the best one that we have ever bought. Especially when those eyes get a little older ,it is nice to have the bigger print.
Thank you for doing business us. Tim Thomasson

No car should be without one of these and this one is really good espically for the price. It seems to include all the major roads and a majority of the smaller roads for the big cities. Must have!

If your traveling, the 2009 Rand McNally large scale road atlas is the atlas that you want by your side. It's very well detailed and has all of the information that you expect from a great atlas. Buy It!

After many years and countless referrals to Rand McNally, This larger size print atlas with spiral bound pages is just the ticket. We refer to it and use it on all our many trips by auto. I strongly recommend it to all road atlas users

Well constructed (I love the spiral binding). The LARGE size edition was exactly what I wanted.

This is a great help since we have started going on trips from January through May and like to go to different places on our way to and from Florida every winter and spring. The Atlas' don't seem to get updated very often and this one looks great! Besides the fact it's LARGE PRINT!! THANKS!!

Pro: The map is detail. Easy to use. You will not lost during travelling.

Con: Too Big for hand carrying.