Monday, March 14, 2005

Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach County Street Guide w/CDs

Map Books 4 U would like to make this important information available to all of our Thomas Guide map book, Rand McNally road atlas, and wall map customers. The customer service department at Map Books 4 U strives to form the best possible customer relations by making available the most current information from our vendors.

Miami-area motorists seeking current and comprehensive maps — along with the ability to personalize them with addresses and favorite landmarks — need look no further than Rand McNally products. The mapmaker’s new 2005 three-county Street Guide, now available at Map Books 4 U, is the only Miami-area map that comes with a matching interactive CD-ROM for custom mapping.

The CD matches the print guide page-for-page. Its customizable maps allow owners to add personal points of interest, download extra information from the Internet onto the Miami-area maps, perform quick lookups of addresses and print maps.

The three-county Street Guide for Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties features the map makers most comprehensive coverage ever — and at a suggested retail price of $44.95, it offers the best value on the market. Of course, at Map Books 4 U you will find this Florida street guide incredibly priced at $35.96! Individual Street Guides for each of the three counties will also come available at a suggested retail price of $19.95. The Orlando, Florida StreetFinder Atlas is currently in stock at Map Books 4 U with a discounted price of $19.95, retail is $24.95 respectively.

“Broad local coverage and up-to-date information are what our customers expect from Rand McNally and what they’ll get with our new Miami-area Street Guides,” said Robert Apatoff, president and chief executive officer of Rand McNally. “We update our Street Guides annually to provide motorists with the most current and accurate representation of south Florida, one of the country’s fastest growing regions.”

Up-to-Date Maps Include Florida’s New Highway Exit Numbers

The 2005 Miami-area Street Guides contain enhanced cartography and fully updated maps to help motorists reach their destinations quickly and safely. For example, they reflect the Florida Department of Transportation’s newly completed exit numbering system, putting an end to the confusion caused by maps displaying the old interstate exit numbers.

The combination three-county Street Guide covers 2,275 square miles and incorporates more than 180 cities and 75 communities, including Boca Raton, Coral Gables, Coral Springs, Delray Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Hialeah, Homestead, Jupiter, Miami, Palm Beach, Pembroke Pines and Wellington. The guide features more than 3,400 landmarks, including police and fire departments, schools, hospitals, shopping centers and golf courses.

The lay-flat, spiral-bound Street Guide has a new look and feel that makes it easier to reference on the road. Bright and legible four-color maps follow a consistent map scale from page to page, and a full index includes ZIP codes and block numbers.

The Miami-area Street Guides for the first time feature Rand McNally’s proprietary Page & Grid system, which provides a standard method for guide users to simply describe routes and locations to one another. The Page & Grid system also ensures that map locations appear on the same letter-number grid with each year’s new edition.

The foldout PageFinder™ map and clearly shown points of interest, one-way streets, ZIP code boundaries, block numbers and highway exits make the guides an easy reference tool for any motorist. Latitude and longitude notations identify approximate global position and simplify cross-referencing to global positioning systems (GPS).

Miami-area Street Guides are available throughout south Florida at most major retail stores and booksellers. Map Books 4 U also offers more Rand McNally Street Guide titles, folded maps and EasyFinder® laminated folded maps for other states, counties, and cities in the USA, all of which are available at the Map Books 4 U online store at www.mapbooks4u.com .