In 1984, due to a personal agreement, Choyce Kendrick and Mapsco produced the first Louisville, Kentucky street atlas and it became Mapsco's third book product.

The guide is not cheap, about $30 depending on the edition, but no self-respecting local would be without a copy of this 1,000-page street atlas in every car.

An invaluable guide for visitors is the "A-Z" (pronounced zed, of course), a street atlas and index, obtainable at any bookseller.

A street atlas would have been informative and helpful.

He pulls out a street atlas to find it and realizes that the page number corresponds to the code the dealers are using.

John Tauranac, in the "Manhattan Block by Block" street atlas, gives the average distance between avenues as 750 feet, or about seven avenues to a mile.

Even with a street atlas, finding your destination is far from easy.

She pinpoints some by where the letters in a road's name fall on her Hagstrom's street atlas, say, near the V in Victory Boulevard, to give a fictitious example.

While there, or in London, look especially for an invaluable street atlas, "London A-Z," published by Geographers' A-Z Map Company ($10.95).

At one barricade, in the Broadway Terrace neighborhood, near Lake Temescal, a police officer with a street atlas fielded panicked questions and requests to pass through.