Customer Reviews:
 Large but miserable May 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I ordered this map for my husband, who still likes to read maps to plan travel, rather than just use our navi. It was a big disappointment.
The maps are large, but the detail is sad. Country roads are rarely marked with their numbers, but there is a mass of unnecessary information, ie "Regenhutte" etc. I would rather know where I am, ie the number of the road, not where the nearest hut is. For that I would buy a local walking map IF I needed that information.
The index is absolutely unreadable without a magnifying glass. Not something I usually carry in the car, and yes, the map is over-large. Though, of course, enlarging the index would make it even bigger. Suggest dividing up into four detailed maps of Germany - with a decent overlap area between the individual books please. In trying to save pages, they have made this book irritating and unpleasant to use.
 Poor, giant atlas July 14, 2006
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is probably the worst road atlas I have ever used. It weighs a ton and is massive and unwieldy, too big even for convenient use as a passenger, glad I wasn't driving and navigating. Although the legend does have an English version not all of the symbols are included anyway, even in the German version. Hard to tell where exactly places are and there is so much writing, etc on the map pages that you can't always see what's (and where's) actually under it.
I've given it one star as there are plenty of city centre plans, although as with the rest of the atlas they've gone overboard in trying to show too much with the massive pages when it would be better to fit more onto one page.
Would throw it away only don't want the bin men to be off work with hernias.
 Great Value German Road Atlas August 18, 2005
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
Previous reviewer says it is all German - however at least the key has an English translation (as well as French).It is superb value - on the back it says its RRP is 16.99. I weighed it and it is about 1.8kg - if I was to post it by the cheapest way (standard parcel) it would cost me just under 5 - and the atlas sells for only 3.99 (with free postage if you include other items to bump it up to 19)! The atlas is large (about A3) and as well as covering Germany (1:150 000) it also has: 16 districts (1:100 000) - Berlin, Bremen, Dortmund, Dresden, Duisburg/Bochum/Recklinghausen, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Koeln (Cologne), Leipzig, Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Muenchen (Munich), Nuernberg, Stuttgart, Wuppertal; 16 towns/cities (1:20 000) Berlin, Bremen, Dortmund, Dresden, Duesseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Kiel, Koeln (Cologne), Leipzig, Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Muenchen (Munich), Nuernberg, Stuttgart.
SUPERB GERMAN ATLAS August 18, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
An excellent atlas, well worth the price. Although the atlas is German despite the AA badge on the front, the legend is also in English so there are no problems with it. At 2.4 miles to the inch it has all the detail needed to get around Germany, with tourist spots and scenic routes picked out clearly. It's quite a hefty atlas so not one that you would want to carry around, but it's ideal for the car.
 The Atlas cover is misleading March 2, 2005
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
I will start by saying that this is a superb atlas. However, THE COVER IS VERY MISLEADING. The cover gives the assumption that the contents are in English, they are not. All contents are in German. So unless you are well versed in the german language get the dictionary out to translate the map key.
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