So I started with one of the maps someone with more patience created.
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To be honest, I don’t have the patience to learn how to use the Snazzy Map site. You can still recognize it as a map, yet it’s not quite as busy. I turned off the titles and some of the roads. In this example, the marker colors are much more distinct.įor this particular interaction, I like having a little color to show the park and monuments in relationship to the city and water. In fact, one of the best simple tips for course design is to get rid of competing visual information like colors and then only use color to accent or highlight content. A gray scale map like this allows the accent colors from the labels to really pop. All of the colors are turned off as well as many of the roads. This next example above is the complete opposite. I’m not using this map to drive an Uber so I probably don’t need all of the detail and distracting visual information. In fact, it’s difficult to see the markers because of all of the colors, text, and roads. In the example above, the real online map has way too much visual info. I need a simple map for reference, but I don’t need all of the street names and colors that may distract from my labels. Instead I want a map that gives me some context, but allows the label to be the star of the show. For example, if I built a labeled graphic map of some historic sites in Washington, D.C.
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Most maps have too much visual information. Fortunately, I found this site, Snazzy Maps, that makes it easy to customize Google’s online maps. Recently, I was working on a map demo where I needed a specific map, but I didn’t want a real map screen shot because it was too busy and I knew the stock sites couldn’t provide what I needed because it was too specific. The other option is to do a screen grab of an online map, but then that’s often too detailed. Stock image sites are fine for generic illustrated maps but they’re usually too generic. Here’s an issue I run into quite a bit: I need a map for my e-learning courses but I don’t need a detailed map.