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Started by HandsomeRob, August 17, 2016, 10:57:43 AM

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HandsomeRob

Not sure if it's available in stores yet, but I have a copy (I got paid to work on it this year!).

There are six new city insets:
- Modesto, Lancaster/Palmdale, and Victorville, CA
- Port St. Lucie, FL
- North Platte and Kearney, NE

A number of city insets were adjusted or extended to cover more area:
- The Omaha inset was extended to cover Bellevue and Waterloo
- The Palm Springs CA inset was extended to cover Indio
- The Jacksonville FL inset was extended to cover the southern and western suburbs (out to Middleburg)
- The Laredo TX inset was shifted to include I-69W
- The Ogden UT inset was shifted to include Plain City

I won't go into all the content changes (there were so many!) but if you have any questions about if your favorite road project was included or whether or not some error was corrected, let me know!


tdindy88

I'll bite since I just got a copy of this atlas myself in the mail. Among a few observations I've made.

Since I'm someone from Indiana, this was my first page:

-I-69 is marked as complete from Evansville to Bloomington, but even better the exit numbers for Section 4 (US 231 to SR 37) are marked, the first I've seen of this from any map (including the official state map and Rand McNally.) Even more impressive however was the inclusion of exit numbers for Section 5 of the interstate from Bloomington to Martinsville and the exit numbers are correct from what I can tell. The Bloomington insert shows a closer detail of these exits, though the map does make it clear that the interstate conversion is an ongoing process, which will still be correct next year.

-US 31 freeway is complete in Hamilton County, though not all exits are marked on the map (might just be a proxmity thing.) New exits were also missing along I-65 at Exits 97 and 249 and I-69 Exit 317. US 31 is also missing an exit north of Plymouth and incorrectly marks an exit at where old US 31 and new US 31 meet south of South Bend, the real exit is just north of this location at Kern Rd.

-SR 641 is signed as complete, which it should be by the end of the year.

-The Indianapolis insert (which I was always a fan of since this was the first atlas to include a downtown insert years ago before Rand McNally did) has updated borders for neighboring Carmel, Zionsville, Brownsburg, Avon and Plainfield. I only wish the insert included just a little bit more outisde the city, but that's the problem when you have to share space with Chicago in every atlas. Somehow, the Airport Expressway is still marked as such, instead of the Sam Jones Expressway, which it has been called since 2008. Finally, Exit 16 along I-465 is still marked as a single exit with I-74 and Crawfordsville Rd where the exit has been redesigned to feature two exits, one for the interstate alone and the other for Crawfordsville Rd.

-I-265 around Louisville is marked as complete, however both it and I-65 are not marked at toll bridges.

Other observations from elsewhere:

-As for Kentucky, I-69 is marked but the exit numbers are all from the older Parkway system, both both the Western Kentucky and Pennyrile Parkways.

-I-840 in Tennessee is signed as such and with great timing given the feds approval and upcoming signing of that particular highway. I-269 looks complete around Memphis, I guess eventually it will, and I-22 is marked all the way to I-65 in Birmingham.

-It also looks like the Nashville insert got a little bit bigger with more of the northern suburbs shown.

-New SR 823 under construction shown near Portsmouth, Ohio.

-Having been on this road a couple of months ago, it was nice to also see Ontario 407 marked as complete east toward Oshawa and Ontario 412 on the map as well.

That's all I can think of at this moment. Mind you, I've always liked this atlas from back when it was under a different name so to see that they still make these is nice, the cartography is much more pleasing to my eyes than from Rand McNally, but that's just my opinion.

HandsomeRob

Quote from: tdindy88 on August 23, 2016, 05:17:07 PM
The Indianapolis insert has updated borders for neighboring Carmel, Zionsville, Brownsburg, Avon and Plainfield.
I actually went through the entire atlas updating the city polygons, so I can safely say that *every* city inset has updated city borders! I even added them to the Mexican city insets, which didn't show city borders before. Nice to have that work noticed.

midwesternroadguy

I've been looking for this edition and just realized that it has a 2016 copyright!  I talked to Mapping Specialists and Meachem Distribution/Map Shoppe only to finally realize that there is no 2017 edition, as they insisted.  I felt a little silly but was able to verify that I had the latest edition based on the revisions discussed above. 



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