Building a Map in PowerPoint

Steps for inserting and building a map

EGEO 250Lecture 1bUpdaged 4/6/2010

Desperately Poor in Los Angeles 1990

Note the strong central cluster of the data.Originator: p. buckleyDate: today Source: William Bowen’s Electronic Atlas http://130.166.124.2/chi_1.html

Getting map or picture on slide

1. Copy map (picture) from web page.2. Paste the result onto a Powerpoint slide. 3. Zoom in (Ctrl + scroll on mouse).4. Shrink/Expand map to fit Powerpoint slide.5. Drag and push map in to fit on slide.6. Zoom back out to work.7. Begin Cropping off any access material.

Cropping map1. Make map active by clicking with mouse2. Activate Picture Tools

3. Get cropping tool and crop picture4. then compress picture tool and compress

Adding a Text Box

1. From Insert click Text Box then click and drag across the screen, adjust to location and size.

2. Can adjust text and things as desired

Highlighting things on the Map

1. From Home select shape.2. Place and adjust on the map.3. Change fill to “no fill”

Adding Neat Lines• For some reason cartographers have always

liked to place neat lines around maps and other boxes. (below found under Picture Tools)

• Make the picture or box active, choose a neat line from the picture tools and click

Parts to a final Map

• Title – Always• Cartographic Material – Always and should dominate

the space• Metadata – Always (originator, date, source) keep small

• Legend – To extent possible• Compass Rose and/or Locator Map – To extent

possible• Scale – To extent possible• Subtitles – As necessary

Critiquing the Map1. Too much white

space2. Title could be a bit

smaller3. Expand cartographic

material4. If possible add

compass rose/locator map

5. Consider moving the legend onto the cartographic material

6. Consider shrinking the metadata and making as single line

7. Can we find a scale?8. Make metadata

smaller perhaps one line

Originator: p. buckleyDate: today Source: William Bowen’s Electronic Atlas http://130.166.124.2/chi_1.html

Desperately Poor in Los Angeles 1990

Note the strong central cluster of the data.

Example using Portrait Layout instead of Landscape