{"id":1814070,"date":"2023-04-20T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T22:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1814070"},"modified":"2023-04-20T19:07:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T23:07:45","slug":"the-rand-mcnally-road-atlas-at-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/the-rand-mcnally-road-atlas-at-100\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rand McNally Road Atlas at 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1814071\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/the-rand-mcnally-road-atlas-at-100\/rand-mcnally-100th\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/rand-mcnally-100th.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,958\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"rand-mcnally-100th\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/rand-mcnally-100th-300x240.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/rand-mcnally-100th-1024x817.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1814071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/rand-mcnally-100th-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Rand McNally Road Atlas: 100th Anniversary (cover and sample pages)\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/rand-mcnally-100th-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/rand-mcnally-100th-1024x817.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/rand-mcnally-100th-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/rand-mcnally-100th-940x750.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/rand-mcnally-100th-501x400.jpg 501w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/rand-mcnally-100th.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I spent an astonishing amount of my childhood just staring at an out-of-date copy of the <em>Rand McNally Road Atlas<\/em>. I suspect not a few of you did the same. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randmcnally.com\/product\/rand-mcnally-road-atlas\">The Atlas is still being published<\/a>; the company argues that they provide a better understanding of route options (it gives the big picture to a fault) and serve as a backup when GPS or cell service fails. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randmcnally.com\/news-press\/release\/rand-mcnally-publishing-celebrates-100-years-of-the-great-american-road-trip-with-a-collectors-edition-road-atlas\">a special 100th anniversary edition of the Atlas is being published next month<\/a>. It including some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randmcnally.com\/retrospective\">retrospective features<\/a> looking back at its 100 years of publication and comes in the usual formats: standard, large scale (more pages) and easy to read (less detail). Not nearly as nostalgic as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/07\/a-collection-of-rand-mcnally-road-atlas-covers\/\">that retrospective book of atlas covers<\/a> that came out in 2018, but then it\u2019s just a collector\u2019s edition of a working atlas.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-order links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Rand McNally 2024 Road Atlas: 100th Anniversary Edition<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/0528027182\/maproom-20\">Amazon<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/o\/ASIN\/0528027182\/maproomca-20\">Canada<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2925\/9780528027185\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/store.randmcnally.com\/2024-road-atlas.html\">Rand McNally<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Rand McNally 2024 Large Scale Road Atlas: 100th Anniversary Edition<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/0528027190\/maproom-20\">Amazon<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/o\/ASIN\/0528027190\/maproomca-20\">Canada<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2925\/9780528027192\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/store.randmcnally.com\/rand-mcnally-2024-large-scale-road-atlas.html\">Rand McNally<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Rand McNally 2024 Midsize Easy to Read Road Atlas: 100th Anniversary Edition<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/0528026933\/maproom-20\">Amazon<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/o\/ASIN\/0528026933\/maproomca-20\">Canada<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2925\/9780528026935\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/store.randmcnally.com\/2024-midsize-easy-to-read-road-atlas\">Rand McNally<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent an astonishing amount of my childhood just staring at an out-of-date copy of the Rand McNally Road Atlas. I suspect not a few of you did the same. The Atlas is still being&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/the-rand-mcnally-road-atlas-at-100\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[627],"tags":[148,30,528,304],"class_list":["post-1814070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-tourist-maps","tag-atlas","tag-books","tag-rand-mcnally","tag-road-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785841,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/07\/a-collection-of-rand-mcnally-road-atlas-covers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814070,"position":0},"title":"A Collection of Rand McNally Road Atlas Covers","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 July 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"The Rand McNally Road Atlas has long been a staple of North American travellers. The company\u2014still around\u2014is celebrating the atlas's 95th edition by putting out a retrospective volume of the road atlas's covers: American Journey: A Treasury of Rand McNally Road Atlas Covers (Rand McNally, 3 June) is a slim\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/american-journey.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/american-journey.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/american-journey.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/american-journey.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2169,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/06\/the-newberry-librarys-rand-mcnally-photos\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814070,"position":1},"title":"The Newberry Library&#8217;s Rand McNally Photos","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 June 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The Newberry Library has uploaded some 400 photographs from their Rand McNally and Company collection. 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