Travel to Texas

Roads of Texas Atlas (The Roads of)

Format: Paperback
Author: Texas A & M University
ReleaseDate: 28 September, 2005
Publisher: Mapsco
Rating:

Great for Texas motorcyclists!
It has updated maps, and the print is MUCH better. This book has all the roads you could be looking for to ride those twisty-turnies! However, the print on this edition is EXTREMELY small! There is a newer edition out, published in 2005.

Only the best will do
Since my first purchase in 1993, I have used this publication extensively. This is a replacement purchase. It is accurate and complete. Nothing else needs to be said. Pay attention to the place names on each page. Quite a few aren't listed in the index because they are the historical names and are no longer populated. These are Texas 'ghost towns' and most have no buildings but most do have cemeteries/graves.

If you want to "SEE" Texas, you must have this.

Roads of Texas--the Mapsco edition
I had preordered the atlas and waited with much anticipation. I just received the new Mapsco edition. What a disappointment!

While latitude and longitude grids have been added, there appears be less detail. And there are a few gaps in the coverage (one near the towns of Rockport and Fulton is the worst), which didn't exist before. And the detail of rivers and streams has been washed out with the maize background.

There were numerous production problems with the new edition, including many missing highway numbers. The Shearer edition
marked all those loops and spurs, which this edition does not.
Another problem is the depiction of the arterial roads with the
heavy black lines starting and stopping as if they were dead ends. Look at the Dallas/Fort Worth pages and you will see what I mean. It looks like this new edition was rushed into production too soon and corners were cut to save money. That accounts for the seemingly bargain 17. 95 price.

Hope they get it right next time; and I'm keeping my old edition!
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