Customer Reviews

The Thomas Guide 2007 San Diego County street guide, including portions of Imperial County

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Thomas guides are used by Police, Fire, Ambulances, etc., and thus should be considered a highly accurate mapping product.

If you've used Thomas guide's in the past, you won't have any trouble with this one.

If you've never used a Thomas guide, you may have a bit of trouble understanding the layout and structure of the guide at first. Intuitive is not a word I would use to describe this product, but once you understand how to use it, you will find everything you could need.

Thomas Brothers produce the best street map books for California cities, because they are accurate, detailed, have great street and landmark indexes, and are easier to use and read than fold-out maps. I have used them regularly from the 1970s. I think that their new formating in the protrait style is an improvement over their old landscape style map books, because the maps appear to be clearer and show a little more area per map.

This is a good resource, as it provides good detail at street name level, which most other local maps don't provide.

However the paper quality this is printed on is not great, the paper is quite thin and with heavy use, I can imagine the pages becoming creased or torn. This needs to be printed on thicker or tear proof paper.

Also this is a heavy book and therefore not easy to carry around. The map continuation is not logical, if you are following a road which goes off the page, it is not followed on in a logical sequence, so you have to flip quite a number of pages to get to the same place and I think some detail is lost between the middle bindings and edges of pages.

I use the Thomas Guide every day to navigate my emergency ambulance to calls, and it's never failed me. It is extremely accurate and easy-to-use, just look up the street name in the back and match it to the grid on the map page. The only downside to this product is that it does not always give complete mapping within gated communities, although it usually will (the roads are never missing, only occasionally their labels). Otherwise, perfect, and WAY cheaper than GPS.

I am very pleased with the guide, the service and the price.
Thanks
George Talbert