United States of America (USA) Travel Reference Map 1st Ed. 2011 1:2.300.000. It’s been mapped before, but the USA is a huge country, extremely developed, and almost impossible to show on a map without over-simplification. Most commercial maps use small sheets of paper and print single-sided, making it impossible to show this vast country to advantage. Well, Lan’s been hard at work developing a ‘proper’ traveller’s aid to navigating around the USA, and here it is. We printed it on an exceptionally large sheet of paper, 39” tall by 54” wide (our normal printing size is 27”x39”). To do this, we merged our four existing data bases into one, then split them so that the west side is on one side and the east side on the other. What results is a very large sheet, but a map at a VERY good scale. We were able to fit in 6.765 urban areas, all the Interstate motorways, major highways, state highways, pretty much all of the secondary highways, physical features, parks, historic/natural sites, battlefields, airports, dinosaur pits (yes, they exist), and so much more. This is a great map! As a country, the USA offers so much for visitors that it is one of the most-visited countries on earth. Now, finally, it has its own ITMB map. I never thought I’d see the day when I’d be writing such press release! How far we’ve come in 30 years! Seriously, the USA NEEDS new maps to replace the rather staid and basic Rand-type of maps with a fresh approach. This is new, and hot off the press.
