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I live in a rural part of southern Arizona, and for many years I always took a copy of this atlas with me while 4 wheeling around the wonderful mountains and deserts. I always recommended it to anyone who spent any time whatsoever traveling. I also have copies of DeLorme's atlases of every western state. I wore out several copies, and was looking forward to using the latest, 2008 edition, with the wonderful shaded relief and enhanced graphics. This is not just a disappointment. It is now a dangerous book. The level of detail is magnificent; too bad it is just plain wrong. Important dirt roads that cross mountain ranges have vanished. New roads, straight as arrows, seem to plow through rugged wilderness areas that have never, and will never, see a road of any kind. The paved county road that connects my small town with the even smaller town 6 miles away has inexplicably vanished. If you have an older edition, keep it! Preserve it, coat it with vinyl and keep it safe. Because you cannot trust the present edition. I went out and bought the newest BenchMark maps version of Arizona, and it appears to be correct, and it will be my new guide to getting around. The other DeLorme atlases I own? I cannot trust them, but I have spent too much to merely throw them away. So maybe I'll use them in conjunction with Benchmark atlases. But I'll never be able to trust them alone. What a shame! I called up DeLorme, wondering if perhaps, because I live on the border with Mexico, maybe they were cooperating with Homeland Security to confuse immigrants. But they denied it, and said that the level of detail is consistent with other DeLorme atlases. Which means they are probably all equally worthless. So, once again, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! It is dangerous to rely on a map that has gone through the computer blender.