Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is a very good atlas, probably the best all-in-one available. I like the color schemes of roads and other features, which are easy to read (unlike the internet and cell phone apps which stupidly put yellow or gray roads against gray or green backgrounds). I still have a criticism though. The proportions of the maps should be adjusted. Maps of small states in the northeast get whole pages (or two) to themselves, but some the large western states only get one page (or just part of a page). Yes, I know, the roads and populations are denser in the northeast, but the the western maps are so large scale that some of the roads don't show up. Alaska and much of Canada and Mexico are so compressed that only the most major roads are shown. I'd like to see the proportions somewhat more normalized. However, this criticism applies to all road atlases I've seen, not just this one. Or, divide the country into overlapping sections, rather than give each state it's own page(s). For example, the northern panhandle of Idaho should be on the Montana map and/or Washington map, where it would be at larger scale than crammed onto one page for just Idaho. Besides, most of the roads and traffic through northern Idaho come east/west from Montana or Washington. Then southern Idaho would get one page to spread out (or be added to pages for Utah and Nevada). Also, organizing pages by alphabetical order doesn't cause encumbrance when sitting at a table, but in a moving car with limited space, flipping through pages to find the next alphabetical state is more annoying. Grouping the pages by region would help reduce page flipping. It's not a perfect taxonomy either, but grouping, say, the New England states together is an easy and functionally logical thing to do. IIRC, decades ago some road atlases did this. Something I have not yet seen (although it wouldn't surprise me if "there's and app for that") is an atlas that was designed to complement the ubiquitous smart phone map apps. I'm not even sure what that would be, but it could move road atlases into the 21st Century. Until then, I'll keep this in my car. These are small criticisms, and given the alternatives, I'd buy this one again and recommend it to anyone else.