Compact And Easy To Use - Rated 
This is an excellent edition of the long-running AA road atlas. It has copious amounts of the usual information (speed cameras are a new addition) and I still prefer to use this instead of an on-line solution (what's a sat-nav?!).
The main reason that this edition is better than the last is its size. It is more compact and far easier to use in a car.
Excellent road atlas! - Rated
I like this road atlas, and would recommend it to anyone.
It's a good size - large enough to be easy to read, yet not too unwieldy to use in the confines of a moving vehicle! The plastic spiral binding looks to be an improvement over the metal spiral of my previous atlas, which was susceptible to getting a bit bent and twisted after some usage.
I completely disagree with reviewer Jones below - the maps themselves are clear and easy to read while still including a more-than-adequate level of detail - and my atlas also includes a town map of Cardiff, maybe Mr/Mrs Jones is reviewing the wrong book?!
I looked at some other road atlases in the shops before deciding that I liked the AA maps best, and this one is good value.
Just buy it - I don't think you will be disappointed!
Don't use this to drive to Wales - Rated 
Unwieldy, hard to read maps make this road atlas bad enough - but if you want to navigate through Cardiff (and it's by no means easy) don't "come running" to buy this tome . The AA hasn't bothered including the capital city of Wales in its city maps.
The AA must have had an inkling as to where Cardiff is because they built a massive call-centre there but clearly that wasn't enough to warrant putting a city map in this atlas.
A good book - Rated
This book has it all. Great plot, great characters, maps. I was on the edge of my seat throughout. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone.
O/D'd on speed cameras - Rated 
The AA Road Atlas comes in many sizes and scales, and in previous years I have generally recommended this one over the others - it is not the largest scale but 3.2 miles to the inch (2km to 1cm in readiness for metrication!) is enough for most people, and where it scores most is in the number of town and city plans. There are actually 87 of these, plus approach maps for London, Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle, plus 30 air and sea ports, and the usual large scale Central London maps.
Some of the smaller town maps (eg Newquay, Weymouth Harbour) now appear as insets (over the sea) on the relevant map page rather than the section at the back.
There seems to be a bit of an obsession about speed camera sites. Fixed camera sites are shown on the map pages, and there are now so many that they threaten the clarity of the maps in some places, but they are not shown on the plans of town and city centres (which is where a lot of cameras are!). There is now an additional seven page section listing mobile camera sites, and this is in such small print on a coloured background that some people may need a magnifying glass to read it.
The new 6-page "jam-busting" map of the country, showing the main traffic and accident black spots, may be useful for journey planning, although since most of these are city centres and motorways it's a bit like stating the obvious. I found the symbols slightly confusing as well. Of better assistance is the list of motorway and major road restricted junctions.
Amazon's synopsis mentions the new distinction between narrow and wide minor roads, useful if going into the more remote areas. Ironically the showing of narrow A-roads, mostly in Scotland, is less than clear - you need to look very, very closely to see the hatched (rather than continuous) black line outside the red one.
So, overall, it's great for navigating through towns and cities, satisfactory for planning most journeys, but forget the speed camera symbols - we shouldn't really need them, should we?
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