How to Add Cities and Location Dots to Our Editable PowerPoint Maps

We had a great question from a customer on how to add new cities and location dots to our PowerPoint or Adobe Illustrator maps. This is pretty easy to do using either a text bullet or drawing a small circle and then a text box for the name. I also thought this would make a great video as we get this question now and then.

We love customer questions, please let us know what you need to know and we make up a video on the question.

Japan Country Map, Broken Down by Administrative Districts

Our editable map of Japan, this map is available in both PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator, both versions are completely editable. This map is broken down by administrative districts, includes capital names.

Easy of Working with Our Editable PowerPoint Maps

We had a nice comment today from a customer that need to do a lot of customizing on one of our maps. They also need to duplicate the map for a book as well as the web. They bought one of our PowerPoint maps and then we sent along the matching Illustrator map for their designer. We got this comment back.

Bruce,

I am having fun working with the map I just ordered!  You have done a very
good job designing it and making it easy to use.

Thank you for the attached file, I'll forward it to my illustrator.

Have a great weekend!

Rich

Can We Use the World of Maps Editable Clipart Maps in Books?

We had a great question the other day from a customer named Gene on using our editable clip art maps in a book.

Question:
I am interested in using your maps in a book that I will be publishing. are there royalty fees to pay? do I need to indicate source of the maps on each page or at the end of the book?


Answer:
Hi Gene, thank you for visiting our site and for your question. You are free to use the maps in your book, there are no additional royalties that you have to pay and you do not have to mention the source. If you want to somewhere that is cool but we don't require it at all.

The only restriction we have is if you are making a map clipart book, for that we have a license but other than that no problem at all. Would love to know the subject matter and when you get it done let me know and I will put a link to it on our blog if you want.

Very cool, thank you for asking, please let me know if you have questions.

bruce jones

United Kingdom Editable Printable PowerPoint Maps

Great Britain is in the news lately because of their recent election. so I thought this would be a good couple of maps to show from our collection.

We have two United Kingdom maps. One is a general Great Britain map including Scotland, Wales, England, and Northern Ireland. This map also includes Ireland. This maps has a general breakdown of their administrative districts. We also have a much more detailed UK map showing all of the administrative districts or the counties. This map took a long time to draw and a longer time to find a source for. We ended up licensing it from the Ordinance Department in Britain. I think this department is kind of like our USGS department or something similar. But it is a cool map. Both are available at our websites.

If you are traveling to Great Britain, check out Rick Steves's Great Britain book available at Amazon. I watch his PBS travel shows all the time.

Both of these maps are available in PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator.

World Countries in Our Editable PowerPoint and Illustrator Map Collection

World illustration of all the countries we have drawn, I think it is about 94 now, in our World of Maps editable royalty free, clip art map collections. Countries from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, South East Asia. All over the place. Each country is fully editable with about half of them including administrative districts, we call ours states Canada calls them provinces. All are available in PowerPoint and in Adobe Illustrator, along with jpg versions in color and black and white. You can see all of them at www.bjdesign.com or www.mapsfordesign.com

Bosina, Georgia, Kyrgystan, Ukraine new Clip Art Maps

Bosina, Georgia, Kyrgystan, Ukraine, just some of the new editable clip art countries we have been working on. We have about 25 that have been in production for a while. We have done the Adobe Illustrator, PowerPoint and JPG versions. It just takes a while to get them all set. Along with these is a World Mercator Map with county names, this has been on mapsfordesign.com but not the CD, it will in the next release.

One of the interesting maps that has been selling alot lately has been our US National County maps. This map has over 3,000 counties on it. A change that we will be adding to the CD will be this map with the county names in place. This is a big complex map but many customers work with it and it is very popular. In both Adobe Illustrator and PowerPoint. Names will only be on the Illustrator version.

Above is our Azerbaijan map.