(Part 2) Best atlases according to redditors

Pre-GPS/cell phone days, I was checking out backroads in nowhere, MO looking for shots with the help of an atlas like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Missouri-Atlas-Gazetteer-Delorme/dp/0899333532

Damn useful atlas by the way, if you are a backroader.
Anyway, I saw a nearby road on it that looked interesting, so I found said road and went down it,(my girlfriend at the time was driving.) The road went at least half a mile and got real narrow. We decided this was likely a private drive and wanted to get out of there, but there was no room to turn around and she didn't want to back all the way out.

Very quickly we come upon a farm house in the distance with like 8 vehicles parked outside it. We needed to get the hell away from there, and now had the opportunity to barely turn around. As she got the car pointed back toward the way we came, another car was right behind us. We drove as fast as we safely could and got back on the rural highway.

The car stopped at the end of the driveway, and a young, tall, thin woman got out of the driver's seath. She had long, beautiful flowing red hair. I got out my video camera and leaned out the passenger window. Looking through the viewfinder and zooming in as much as I could, I noticed she was zooming a camera at me also, presumably to get my license plate number, but she didn't have a camera, she had a deer rifle, and I stared right back at her through her scope. As soon as I realized, and got back in the car, the shots began. 5 or 6 total, I think.

Not one hit our car, so I figured they were just warning shots, fair enough, we found their meth lab, or whatever. Then, she got back in the car and followed us for 20ish miles down obscure backroads until we got to a small town and she finally backed off.

If you want to do this shit to the open source community, prepare to go under the microscope.

I've contacted Ger Versluis at his (warning: 90's) site and asked if astrolabe had a commercial license to use his menu script and informed him of the situation.

I've contacted Xin Yang and asked if they had a license for the calendar script since the version astrolabe is using doesn't display a copyright mark in the UI though the copyright is in the source. Also informed of the situation.

I did not contact SmarterTicket as they seem to be running legitimately (one department implies one agent, which is within the specifications of the free version, and the site age 15 years old).

Some anomalies that I can't make heads or tails of:
http://alabe.com/atlas2.gif on http://alabe.com/downloads/ is from Thomas G Shanks The American Atlas, Expanded 5th Edition. The server reports the date of the image to be 3/June/2004 03:00, but the book was published in 1996, and the company acquired the rights to the book in ???

http://alabe.com/AstracadabraSmallestBlack.gif is not an original image, it appears to have come from Getty Images, but the page is no longer there, it may have been purchased.

http://alabe.com/AUG0206_files/2005planets.gif appears to be a derivative of various planetary alignment images on the web, I could not find a source.

You can even get it from amazon btw https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0952165813/

Meh, I'm hearing a lot of Y2K in this. It's their job to worry and wring their hands over traffic jams and insufficient port-a-potties, but really, the U.S. is a big, big place, and Nebraska is a big, big place, and the total solar eclipse is a big, big thing covering a big, big swathe of a very large continent. I'm sure that if you go to Grand Island, you'll be able to find a gravel county road somewhere to pull over and watch the show. The only problems might be if you needed a hotel room, but you can take a popup tent to any of the state parks and recreation areas in the area that offer tent camping. The RV hookups with water and electric fill up fast, but IME the tent camping spots fill up last, and for an event like this, the rangers can be very accommodating about putting tent overflow in that meadow over there even though it's not really designated.

Get a Nebraska gazetteer, it tells all the county roads. https://www.amazon.com/Nebraska-Atlas-Gazetteer/dp/0899333281

Bookstores in NE sell them, by the Rand McNally road atlases. Sometimes gas stations on the Interstate sell them, too.

It saves you from being at the mercy of Google Maps, too, who don't always know what the hell they're talking about.

Available maps? How about a book full of 'em:
http://www.amazon.com/Roads-Texas-M-University/dp/156966305X

This has pretty much every public road in Texas on it (and some private roads as well), from Interstate to rural one-lane dirt roads.

Try looking at maps or guides on scenic highways and byways!!
https://scenicbyways.info/
https://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Scenic-Highways-Byways/dp/1426210140

As for actual off-roading, I have no idea.
This book has just about every fire road and logging road, that has been in place for a while.
I have always wanted to ride the logging roads around Terrero.

https://www.amazon.com/Wyoming-Atlas-Gazetteer-Delorme/dp/0899333389

You should get something like this, they're usually $20 at a good gas station. You want to look for BLM and National Forest lands, all of which are very clearly marked on these maps. These are some of the best maps you can get.

https://www.amazon.com/Washington-Atlas-Gazetteer-Delorme/dp/089933329X

Something like this maybe? These aren't very portable tho.

Go the eclipse weekend just don't go to Oregon. Go somewhere South in California away from the eclipse.

For me still nothing beats these.
https://www.amazon.com/Oregon-Atlas-Gazetteer-Delorme/dp/0899333478
I typically can find targets of where to sleep using them and google maps. Google maps will not do alone. BLM land is very poorly marked in many areas on google maps.

cheap too

Those are all good starter hikes. Depending on the shape you're in, I'd go with a progression of something like Devil's Backbone->Arthur's Rock->Horsetooth->Grey Rock. There's lots and lots after that, but those would be a great start.

Please make sure to look up the 10 essentials, and have a general awareness of where you are. Also, pick up the correct national geographic maps and learn how to use them.

You can pick this up at REI: http://www.amazon.com/Poudre-Thompson-National-Geographic-Illustrated/dp/1566953901

Yes, you can camp at any of the backcountry shelters in Harriman State Park. There are about a 10 shelters or so, spread out across the park. Regulations require you to either sleep inside a shelter or pitch your tent within 300 feet of a shelter.

The NYNJTC sells maps and a guidebook for Harriman through their online store: http://www.nynjtc.org/panel/goshopping

National Geographic also makes a nice waterproof map of the park through their Trails Illustrated map series: http://www.amazon.com/Harriman-Mountain-State-Trails-Illustrated/dp/1566956072/ref=sr_1_1

Chicagoland 7 county map

a overview of all of Illinois

If he runs a lot of Chicago the first one is a must. My old employer had a low bridge map of the city but for the life of me I can't find one for sale anywhere.

http://www.amazon.com/Rand-McNally-Atlas-World-millennium/dp/1586632426

The only single thing you could get that has that level of detail would be a Rand McNally Road Atlas.

https://www.amazon.ca/Rand-McNally-Large-Scale-Atlas/dp/0528019635/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=KFDHE1FAGDETSJ443W3R


An alternative would be to either get the road maps via CAA, or with the National Geographic, Canada Map Pack bundle.

https://www.amazon.com/Canada-Bundle-National-Geographic-Adventure/dp/1597756032/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Y154VKFV4T350SCD683Y

Canada is gigantic and a single map would open up from one end of your motorhome to the other.

It was largely absorbed into the New England Trail (aka Metacomet-Monadnock-Mattabesett Trail). The website for it is here - http://www.newenglandtrail.org/ - and there are maps both online and purchasable, e.g. on Amazon here. If you want information on the Metacoment-Monadnock trail specifically I think the best resource might be the guidebook, also available on Amazon here. You can also try local stores, like the Toadstool bookstore in NH.

http://www.amazon.com/Argentina-National-Geographic-Adventure-Map/dp/1566955440

April seems too early to me.

maps (two maps, one covers the northern part, the other the southern part. The maps have campsites, portages, rapids, etc):

https://www.amazon.com/Allagash-Wilderness-Waterway-Geographic-Illustrated/dp/1566955874

https://www.amazon.com/Allagash-Wilderness-Waterway-Geographic-Illustrated/dp/1566955866

guide book:
https://www.amazon.com/Allagash-Guide-Famous-Waterway-Legendary/dp/156523488X/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=34QBAVHEX9M4JHCG4115

never heard of a recreational atlas, is this what you're referring to?

http://www.amazon.com/Wisconsin-State-Recreation-Atlas-Rec/dp/1597755192