We had a nice question come in about our editable PowerPoint maps, I made up a short video answer
Question
Do the US county maps include main interstates and highways? Can you enter more data in a specific county other than the county name? My goal is to have a county map with county names, main highways/interstates, be able to color code the counties and add a number to each county.
Looking for a state county map with county names and main roads.
Answer
We have a nice collection of editable county maps. This short video highlights our Virginia editable county PowerPoint map and all of its features.
Our county maps include 4 slides, Land and Text, just the Land, just the Text and a fourth with the major interstates and cities. All element are editable and can be changed. You can learn more about our maps at http://www.mapsfordesign.com
It is time for our Map Monday Video so on to a question that came into our comment box,
people send us all kinds of questions and we love to get them.
Today's
question comes a viewers boss and the question is do you have an
editable national US County PowerPoint map with all of the names listed
on the map.
Answer:
So they're asking about our USA National County
editable PowerPoint map. This is the map the entire national US County
editable PowerPoint map. This map is in PowerPoint and it has all the
counties in United States all 3120 of them and also has all of their
names on it.
So lets bring that map up here in PowerPoint so you
can see that. So this is a fully editable National US map of all the
counties in PowerPoint, all 3120 of them in United States. So if I click
on it let's say the state of Maine, lets zoom in here and I can select
this state and go to my formatting palette and choose another color. We
can change this orange color to say a yellow color. I still have the
entire state grouped so it all changes to one color, but everything in
this state is a separate editable County. The state of Maine is made up
of individual county maps and I can go and ungroup it in PowerPoint and
work each individual county. I go to the draw toolbar and I can just
click right here and I can now see all the individual counties are
separate objects. I can color each individual object and fill it with
its own color.
So that's what people are asking about, that can
they change these things, are they editable but what they are really
looking for is are there names on all of these counties. Because this is
a big map with a lot of names and a lot of counties and they wanted to
go in there and find their specific County and make the changes. So yes
we have a US national County map with all the usual counties and that we
also have a version with names on it. The name version isn't on the
site but we can send you that our version if you purchase of the regular
County map. It is a pretty big file so we just email it to you rather
than set up for download like all the others.
So not only can
you change all the individual counties and the colors but also the text
you just have to ungroup it is we have it group by state can keep it
organized. Each one of those names can be change, formatted differently,
deleted or moved around or whatever it is you want to do.
We
have lots of customers go in and customize this map especially when they
have a need for a general territory map that's crossing state lines.
There are much more sophisticated maps out there that are tied to a
database, we don't have that. Our map is all done by hand but it works
pretty well when you need to set up a basic territory map.
We also have individual state county maps in PowerPoint.
The
slide package also includes a version of the map with names, without
names, on a blank map with just names, and also a state outline map that
can be laid on top to give you a nice borders.
We received a call today for a customer on our www.MapsForDesign.com site. He was buying a map PowerPoint Georgia County Map and couldn't quite figure out how to download the map and had a couple of questions on customizing it. The download link is just below the name of the map on the invoice form, but sometimes it doesn't seem to stand out and people give a call. We helped him and actually to get it there quickly I just emailed the map back to him. I received a nice email back from the customer and wanted to share it, I asked and he gave permission.
Bruce,
Very nice experience,
I was able to color code the counties, dropped the major cities andhighways right on top, Just what I wanted to do. Really appreciated you sending me the ppt. When I called, I was hoping I would get the kind of service you provided but I was also doubtful it would happen. Thank you!
Dick
I replied back,
Hi Dick, thank you very much for the follow up and the comments, I work hard at the customer service side and at making our maps useful.
thank you very much
bruce
And one final message
Sure - deserve it. I have not had a real positive experience with purchasing these kinds of services over the net. You did everything advertised and provided personal service back up. Thanks again.
Dick
We love getting calls from our customers, and we love answering questions.
We had a great question today on how to increase the resolution of a jpg file that you can save out of PowerPoint
Question: When saving as a jpeg, is there a way to edit the resolution? It automatically saves to 96dpi. I'd like to save as 300dpi.
Answer: I am assuming you are working out of PowerPoint, I don't think so. I think it is just an save option. If you are going to the web it is fine, if you are going to print then it might not be.
One solution would be if you could set up a larger PowerPoint slide, maybe 20" x 20", in document setup. Copy the map into it, (this is important, otherwise the map gets distorted), group it, enlarge it and then make the jpg. Then in Photoshop or some other photo editing program you can reduce it down to a smaller size and the resolution will go up proportional. You can also just resize the jpg in your layout program and the resolution goes up.
There is a cool page on the USGS website from their Earthquake Hazards Program, it is a list of Earthquake Lists and Maps. The page lists vast amounts of information for the US and the World on Earthquakes. Including: Deadly Earthquakes, Density Maps, General Information, Statistics, the Largest Earthquakes, Historic Earthquakes going back to 856AD.
Here is a fun little earthquake fact. From 1975 - 1995 there were only four states that did not have any earthquakes, florida, Iowa, North Dakota and Wisconsin.
Also included are the Last Earthquakes in each state and country, Seismicity Maps and the really big significant earthquakes. This is as great page for getting all kinds of information on earthquakes. You can also check out all kinds of other info on earthquakes at the USGS Earthquake sites.
Customer Questions: I am looking for a EPS format map showing the entire Pacific Rim, needs to include west coast of U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Far East, Japan, Korea, China, and also the South Pacific. Do you have such a map? If so whats the cost and can I see it?
Answer: We don't have an actual Pacific Rim map but we do have a number of world projection maps in Adobe Illustrator that could be easily edited. I have attached a jpg picture of one, Because you are working in Illustrator (eps) you could easily move the pieces around, and cut off the parts of the map you don't need. We also have a world projection map with Australia in the center and it is basically a Pacific Rim map.
You can check out all of our maps at www.bjdesign.com, the cost is $149.95 for unlimited download of everything.
Please see attached and let me know if you have any questions on what we offer.
Here is the actual page for our World Projection maps on our site for you to review, just scroll down to see all of the maps.
