Philip's 2018 Essential Road Atlas Britain and Ireland - Spiral A4: (Spiral binding) (Philips Road Atlas)

Excellent book, good size fits nicely in behind seat pocket out of the way but easily accessed if required. Always good to have up to date map book just in case of difficulties with GPS. Good clear pages, easy to navigate through.

Emergency maps for the car.. good and clear even for my poor eyesight.

Just the right size for the car.

In an age of sat navs, the road atlas is less used than before, but it's still useful to have one for emergencies, or for more speculative journeys. This one is well laid out with the main maps at 3 miles to 1 inch. It has several other useful maps, including restricted motorway junctions, urban approach plans for Glasgow, Birmingham, London and Manchester, and a further 11 city plans. There's also a complete map of motorway service areas. Overall, a useful book to keep in the car.

Map or sat nav? - the perennial argument on our trips. I like the tech, my wife likes the paper. She says this is just the right size and level of detail for planning a trip (or challenging the sat nav!) An atlas can't beat Google Maps or proprietary sat navs for street level detail but I do agree that a convenient size and scale of atlas like this is easier for the overview of a journey or planning diversions for a break.This size and binding is just right for use on the lap in the car.

When your phone battery dies, and you still need a map, this is the book for you.In this day and age it is easy to take having a map for granted. It won't get used often, but when it does it will be a life saver. The book won't provide sufficient detail to help you with the last mile of your journey, but it will help you get to the city or town you are looking for on those long and unfamiliar journeys!

Despite everything being GPS and internet led there is still a place for books and sometimes sat navs do let us down . This road atlas is clear and a good size with spiral binding so theres no risk of creases and tears across the most important bit of the map! Yes useful and does the job!?

It's funny how, even with satnav in almost every smartphone and so many cars, we still have a use for a good road atlas and this Philips Essential version is a pretty good one. The size is just right, basically each map page is A4 plus an allowance for the spiral binding and the binding means you can fold it back on itself and have something that's easy to hold or sit on your lap. The spiral binding means there's quite a big gutter between pages but Philips have split the maps so there's virtually no overlap from the left page to the right, which makes it relatively straightforward to trace your route as it jumps across a double-page spread.The 1:200000 scale of most of the maps is also just about right although in more remote and less-populated areas of the UK, like the Scottish Highlands, the maps are to a less detailed scale. For driving cross-country they're great and you can pick out your routes clearly, but inevitably as you approach major conurbations there's a tendency for confusing map spaghetti and it gets increasingly difficult to track your route. To help with this there are more detailed maps of the approaches to four cities; Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and London, and they're indispensable if you need to navigate those areas. There are also a selection of around 30 small city-centre maps but some of these are so small, printed 2 or even 4 to a page, that they're only helpful in locating the major streets, great if you're on a shopping trip but not much else. There's a route planner at the front of the book showing which double-page spread you can find each section of the UK on and at the back is an extensive index so you can locate individual towns.Inevitably when you get into urban areas the atlas becomes much less helpful and you'll either want an A-to-Z of that particular city or you could switch to a satnav device and get the greater detail you need from there. However, it's still a really useful thing to help get you from A-to-B and this version seems pretty much up-to-date. The price seems more than fair and of course it's just the right size for that pocket in the back of the front seats.

Nice clear layout and with the spiral binding I don't have the usual problem of navigating to somewhere that is actually hidden behind a staple or difficult to see in the crease...

Worebound road atlases are the way to go if you fancy using a map in your car. The "normal" binding has the disadvantage at closing when needed - but this spiral bounder...

A completely reliable and comprehensive map which includes the whole of Britain presented as maps of various scales. Can't really ask for more.

I'm old school: I like to have a book of maps in the car. Yes, I have Google maps on my pone but sometimes you're stuck without a signal.

This is a medium-format road atlas; it is approximately A4 size, and it is spiral-bound. The combination of the size and the binding makes this really easy to handle in a car;...

A5 Road Atlas, spiral bound and relatively robust, good for repeated usage in the car.2018 date (not sure how this works unless it includes planned road...