Monday, June 26, 2006

Help on Creating a Map

OK, this is a request for help.

I volunteered to do some work for an upcoming conference and they asked me if I could come up with some sort of "herding/coordinating people" to go to dinner after our division's cocktail hour. The chair sent me a list of restaurants and their addresses. I thought a great way to do this would be to provide folks with a map with the restaurants starred (noted? Highlighted?) on the map.

This would seem to be a simple thing to do. Yet, it is not.

Do you all have any suggestions on how to do this?

Thanks much!

6 comments:

Jennifer said...

Okay, my connection is way too slow to come up with an example like I thought I would, but why don't you go to Google Maps (or one of the others) and zoom and tweak until you've got a map of the area you need. Print it out and add post-its (or pieces of post-its) for your destinations.

I would think that one or the other of these services would even let you annotate before printing, but I'll just have to wonder about that because dial-up sucks.

Jennifer said...

Oh, right, and Step the Last: photocopy and/or enlarge as desired.

Anita said...

Thanks for the suggestions, Jenn.

Google Maps are by far the best. I am going to hopefully finish this thing tonight!

T. Carter said...

If you haven't already finsihed it, I just found out about Quickmaps, which makes it easy to slap down pointers and directions on a Google map ...

T. Carter said...

Stoopid 1337 marketers ...

It's Quikmaps (sans "c") the above link is some spammy thing (sorry!).

Anita said...

Carter--

YAY!!!!! It totally worked and was so easy. And thank you for coming back and putting the new link on there. I wasn't sure what to do with the other one.

The map turned out really nicely!!!!