State and provincial atlases

[Landshark]

Are there any other local, regional, or national brands producing state atlases similar to DeLorme and Benchmark?   Are there any Canadian Province atlases out there?   

[Dr Frankenstein]

MapArt used to produce excellent provincial atlases in Canada, but due to a variety of reasons, they are no longer publishing new maps for now, and are currently being revived under a different brand.

There's CCCmaps too, which I'm not as much a fan of, but they're decent enough.

[Desert Man]

Thomas Bros. maps which fell under the ownership of Rand McNally a few years ago prints a California road atlas every year since 1981, with more digitalized editions since 1996. It has arterial pages of whole regions, and detailed inset pages of primary cities (Palm Springs has one) and metro areas (the Palm Springs-Palm Desert area), and California has pages for the Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada areas.

TBM has the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon and Vancouver) and Southwest editions (Phoenix with Arizona and New Mexico). TBM has expanded coverage to the Baltimore-Washington DC region and I suppose they have editions for Boise, Idaho and Salt Lake city, Utah. The last time I knew of Thomas Bros. is they serve certain portions of the US, then with Rand McNally who prints their own metropolitian road atlases, the "Thomas Guide" may serve more and new areas they didn't before.

[vdeane]

MapWorks is awesome but limited to NY.  Jimapco is also very good, though they only have NY and New England atlases as far as I know.

[Landshark]

I checked out the CCC maps, and they are great road atlases similar to Thomas Bros.   I now own three of them, thanks for the suggestion.

  I am looking for something more on the lines of the DeLorme and Benchmark atlases which also focus heavily on the topography and landscape. 

I just completed my DeLorme and Benchmark collections (74 in total including dupes and older editions), so this addict needs to find another fix 

[agentsteel53]

what states does Benchmark service?  I've got basically everything west of the Rockies, except Wyoming, which I need to pick up.  those atlases are great.

DeLorme is occasionally shit.  I have one which labels as "extant, paved, drivable, no problem at all" an old alignment of AZ-77 which has been completely wiped off the earth.

also, does anyone know who would publish this sort of atlas in the 1940s-60s?  would be awesome to get some historical references.

[NE2]

also, does anyone know who would publish this sort of atlas in the 1940s-60s?  would be awesome to get some historical references.

Your best bet would be state DOT county maps or USGS topos. (Delorme, incidentally, is heavily based on USGS.)

[agentsteel53]

Your best bet would be state DOT county maps or USGS topos. (Delorme, incidentally, is heavily based on USGS.)

there wouldn't be some commercially published atlas like "Benchmark California, new for 1958 with those funky red, white, and blue shields"?

[Landshark]

what states does Benchmark service?  I've got basically everything west of the Rockies, except Wyoming, which I need to pick up.  those atlases are great.

They have the 11 western states in the lower 48: WA, OR, CA, AZ, NV, ID, MT, WY, UT, CO, & NM.  They are slowly heading east.   

[agentsteel53]

I am missing just the Wyoming.  I really like the Benchmark set - I've never caught them in an error in the overestimate direction: i.e. a dirt road labeled as paved.  they do have the occasional paved, but badly crumbling road labeled as dirt, which is probably an intentional design decision as opposed to an error.

[agentsteel53]

hot damn, these things are valuable.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Thomas-Bros-1950-Atlas-of-Los-Angeles-County-California-/151050195650?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item232b4b12c2

[froggie]

Hudson Maps (or also Professor Pathfinder) for Minnesota and the Twin Cities in particular, although Hudson also has a decent mapbook for the Milwaukee area (or at least used to)

Still very disappointed that ADC "sold out".  Their maps for the Mid-Atlantic were superior to everything else out there.  I've noticed an attempt at "restarting", but I haven't seen much of it yet.

The good Doctor mentioned MapArt for Canadian atlases.  I concur that they are very excellent.  Their big book covering all of Canada is on my wish list.

[Landshark]

I am missing just the Wyoming.  I really like the Benchmark set - I've never caught them in an error in the overestimate direction: i.e. a dirt road labeled as paved.

I have caught a few.  One that quickly comes to mind is that they show an imaginary connection between Bald Hill Rd and Neat Rd in the Bald Hill area of Washington just to the SW of Yelm in Thurston County.  I really wish that road did exist. 

[bugo]

Arkansas has 3 atlases that I know of:

DeLorme (typical DeLorme grid atlas): http://www.amazon.com/Arkansas-Atlas-Gazetteer-Delorme/dp/0899333982/ref=sr_1_49?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369681109&sr=1-49

The Roads of Arkansas (uses AHTD county maps from the '80s presented in a grid form: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0940672537

Arkansas County Maps (uses AHTD county maps from the '80s in a county by county layout) (no URL)

I have owned all three, even though my DeLorme got ru by a water leak.

[empirestate]

NYSDOT made one for New York, last published in 1998 (with an urban areas addendum in 2000). You can still get .tif files of the same cartography (unrevised) here: http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/inventories/details.cfm?DSID=919

[oscar]

The good Doctor mentioned MapArt for Canadian atlases.  I concur that they are very excellent.  Their big book covering all of Canada is on my wish list.

I have a copy of it.  1st edition (and probably last), from 2008.

The province-level "Back Road Atlases" are much easier to use in the car.

[Dr Frankenstein]

The big book in question is also on my wishlist. I really hope they get revived.

[AsphaltPlanet]

I have one too.  It's a great atlas.  Mine is pretty well loved, and has had a few pages from Ontario pop out.  I think you can still find them at some of the larger Chapters/Indigo stores in the GTA at least.

[oscar]

I have one too.  It's a great atlas.  Mine is pretty well loved, and has had a few pages from Ontario pop out.  I think you can still find them at some of the larger Chapters/Indigo stores in the GTA at least.

Might also try Canadian Tire stores, where I got mine.

EDIT:  I've seen them at a lot of Irving gas stations in the Maritimes as well, the past few days.  Seems unlikely the atlas will go out of stock by the time Froggie can order his online.

[froggie]

Since I won't be getting to Canada anytime soon, I was going to order mine online...last I checked (last year), that was still possible.