Customer Reviews

The Thomas Guide 2008 King, Pierce & Snohomish Counties Street Guide, Including Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, and Bellevue, Washington and the Surrounding Communities

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I just got my new 2008 Thomas Guide and I'm coming on Amazon to find some 2007 Thomas Guides (hopefully some are still around). I have used this system for over 20 years and have purchased many of these for my clients!! Like the other reviewer indicated there are pages in the Seattle/Snohomish book that don't "path" between the counties as they did in past years but a few minutes making notes on various pages took care of that.

However they also made several other changes that dramatically change the form of past years so if you are a past user read on.. the actual print area of the map is LESS on the page and thus the street letters and numbers crowd poorly together on many critical map pages. Some pages are very confusing to even see the actual streets. This hopefully will be corrected in future editions if they move the margins back out to 1/4 inch from the edge and change some fonts and bold type back (Hence I'm looking for more of last years book) and they also dropped the grid guides (on the tops of the pages) so if you read top to bottom it will be confusing for you. (If you never owned one buy it and you won't know its that bad)

Bottom line. I gave my new book to a client and will keep my old ones til next year. Don't get me wrong these are awesome books!!!! .. and far superior to anything online but I need to get stronger reading glasses.

The idea was good. Larger print.. but but smaller page?? Sounds like a Seattle traffic report.. If you need it or you lost your old one.. BUY IT otherwise draw in the new streets get out the tape for the loose pages and look again next issue.

This is the product to get if you're going to drive around the Seattle area. Every last street, alley, and cul-de-sac n three counties is here and clearly labeled.

The one shortcoming of this map is that Thomas Bros didn't integrate the three counties like they did with the LA area maps. As a result, some of the pages are out of sequence and the arrows pointing to the next page in a given direction refer to the locator map for the county instead of the detail map in the next county.

The easy trick to get around this is that moving north is always -30 map numbers, and moving south is always +30 map numbers.