We received this question today from a customer concerning combined maps of United States and Canada and United State and Mexico
Question:
Do you have a combined US & Canada County map available?
Also do you have a combined US & Mexican counties/municipalities available?
Thanks. The customer also contacted us a little later with a follow up question on if the maps had individual states and provinces.
Answer:
Yes we do, we have them in PowerPoint and in Illustrator format. You can get them individually on our www.MapsforDesign.com and part of the full download package on www.bjdesign.com. Full editable and ready for your presentations.
We have been following the events in Japan with a lot of interest and amazement. I took a quick look at our Google Analytics stats for our World of Maps site and saw a big spike on Friday, March 11, the day of the earthquake. The top 9 all centered around Japan. It was interesting to see what people were searching on and the keyword phrases they used.
In order:
japan on globe
where is japan on the globe
globe of japan
japan globe map
world globe japan
globe japan
map of japan and usa
japan globe
japan on a globe
Above is our Southeast Asia map showing Japan, China and Southeast Asia, to see all of our editable PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator maps check out http://www.bjdesign.com
Globe map with Japan and the Pacific Ocean. Editable map in PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator, map can be customized however you want. This map can be purchased individually and is available at http://www.mapsfordesign.com
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.
We have pulled together some of our more popular Country Maps and turned them into products. This video shows you a quick overview of what we have.
We have been getting a great response from our World of Maps gift and product store this holiday season, the designs include: World of Maps Designs, Canada with Maple Leaf, Canada with Map and Maple Leaf, Germany Map with Flag, England Map with Flag, United Kingdom Map with Flag, Spain Map with Flag, France Map with Flag, Deutschland Map with Flag
We have tons for items that you can pick up the include: t-shirts, v-neck t-shirt, long sleeve t-shirts, men and women, fitted t-shirts, toddler t-shirt, sweatshirt, boxes shorts, thong underwear, mouse pad, electric wall clock, journal, throw pillows, keepsake box, framed tile, mug, large mug, apron, Sigg water bottle, dog t-shirt, pet bowl, magnets, calendar, tote bag, messenger bag, gym bag, beach bag
We are please to announce that we have pulled together all of our map and flag designs into a collection of gift products for the holidays. With maps and flags of Spain, France, Germany, United Kingdom, and England on all kinds of products from t-shirts, to mugs, pillows, aprons, notebooks, mouse pads there is a gift for him, her, friends and family. Our products are made by Cafepress so you know the quality is great and they handle all the shipping.
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.
Royalty free, downloadable, editable clip art maps, perfect for setting up sales and marketing presentations, showing sales territories, office locations, defining regions and project progress. Maps are also great for illustrations, websites, education, school projects, home schooling and scrapbooking.
Includes a full range of World maps, USA maps, 50 US States plus territory maps, 50 State County maps, Canada maps and Provinces maps, World Regional maps with editable countries, over 90 individual countries including United States maps, Canada maps, United Kingdom maps, India map, Australia map, and many more.
Each immediately downloadable states, county, or country map, is an individual element that can be easily edited, modified, customized, resized, changed, colored however you like or deleted, group or setup a custom map. All text blocks are live text that can be edited and changed. Easy to make a blank or printable maps for schoolor other projects, just remove the color. All maps come loaded right in a PowerPoint slide for easy editing and work with all the PowerPoint tools. Our editable clip art maps work with all version of PowerPoint on PCs or Macintosh, and with Apple's Keynote presentation software
We have been quiet but quite busy lately here at the World of Maps. We have been redoing all of our How-To Videos for editing and customizing our editable PowerPoint Maps for MapsForDesign.com. Reworking each one to clean it up, update for PowerPoint 2007, and give everyone better instructions one how to do the different tasks. It has taken a while but we are done and they are now up on YouTube and will shortly be up on the MapsforDesign.com instruction page.
Some of the thing we did were simplified each video-"One Video/One Idea, aka Ed Dale," rewrote the YouTube and website text, new graphics, consistent look across all videos, beefed up the keyword research for better tags and helping customers find what they need, improved the titles and really worked enhancing the YouTube page. The goal was to have it all done for Labor day so that we can turn the videos over to our web master and he can connect them all to the site. Over the next couple weeks we will post each one here also.
We love getting questions from customers, it lets us know what is going on and where we need to pay attention with our collections. A question on sharing our editable World of Maps with your team came in today from Jennifer.
Questions:
I was wondering, if we purchased the CD-ROM, would it be restricted to a single/private user or could it be used for business across the team/group?
Answer:
Hi Jennifer, thank you for visiting our site and for your question. You are free to use the maps across your team. We want you to be able to do your job and sharing with your coworkers is part of that. If you are going big, with lots of people and offices then we do have licenses for that, but for your regular team that you work with every day, feel free to share.
PowerPoint has a lot of great uses that a lot of people just don't know about. One of them is outputing jpg files that can be used for print or on your website, kind of a poor mans version of Adobe Illustrator.
We had this great question from Carlie on how to make a hi res jpg file from 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:
Hi, Carlie, thank you for your question. I am assuming you are working out of PowerPoint. Making a jpg file is an easy save as option in the Save As pull down menu under the File menu. Instead of saving the PowerPoint file as a slide deck, just choose jpg.. If you are going to the web then as it saves it is fine, the resolution is 96 dpi, if you are going to print then you might want it higher.
Here is a way to do that. Set up a larger PowerPoint slide, maybe 20" x 20", in document setup, copy the map into it, (this is important, otherwise it gets distorted, don't enlarge the slide with the map in place, copy it onto the new slide), 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 proportionally. You can also just resize the jpg in your layout program and the resolution goes up.
So 9 inches at 100dpi, becomes 300dpi at 2.25, a very easy way to make a hi res jpg file.
We get this question now and then on if we sell zip code maps on our download editable map sites. The answer is no, but we usually refere people over to a couple of places that do carry them.
Question:
Do you guys sell zip code boundary maps? I can't seem to find them? or Can one display data on your maps
Answer:
The answer is unfortunately no, our maps are very simple and easy to edit and customize but we don't have any ability to display data or to show zip codes. Folks love what we have but zip code maps are a level or two above what we carry. We do have a very nice collection of editable county maps in a couple of different ways that are great for highlighting marketing data and work very well.
If the customer is a marketing person then I usually send them over to look at www.territorymapper.com. If they have lots of money then I usually say look at www.mapinfo.com, they are the biggies in this area. If the questions comes more from a delivery, transportation directions then I say to look at www.ZipCodeMaps.com. Either of these sites can be very helpful.
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.
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.
Leading off our World of Maps editable US county maps are the states Alabama to Maine. Each county in the collection is an individual element that can be customized to setup a sales or marketing territory for a presentation, illustration or classroom project. Maps are available in both PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator. These maps are from our regional county map collection, which means you can build a region by fitting the maps back together. All of the text is editable and can be changed or removed, you can change colors, sizes, delete parts. County maps are available at www.mapsfordesign.com if you need just one, or at www.bjdesign.com if you need a lot.
The middle states of our editable US county map collection with states Massachusetts to Ohio. Each county is an individual element that can be customized to setup a sales or marketing territory for a presentation. Maps are available in both PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator. These maps are from our regional county map collection, which means you can build a region by fitting the maps back together. All of these county maps come from the same master set. All of the text is editable and can be changed or removed. County maps are available at www.mapsfordesign.com if you need just one, or at www.bjdesign.com if you need alot.
Our last directory of editable US county maps with states Oklahoma to Wyoming. Each county is an individual element that can be customized to setup a sales or marketing territory for a presentation. Maps are available in both PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator. All of the text is editable and can be changed or removed. Add a star for an office, color individual counties to show information. County maps are available at www.mapsfordesign.com if you need just one, or at www.bjdesign.com if you need a lot.
Senator Al Franken draws a map of all 50 states from memory during an appearance on Minnesota Public Radio's Midday at the Minnesota State Fair. It is not uncommon to get a call asking for a map of the 52 US States so it is nice to see one of our newer Senators know just how many states we actually have.
The America are made up of a lot countries, from very large ones like the US and Canada to little tiny ones like the Cayman Islands. We have draw many of them, above are some from our World of Maps collection.
Including: the United States, Canada, Antiles-Aruba, Argentina, Bahamas, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean Islands, and the Cayman Islands. All of these maps come in both editable PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator format. All elements can be customized for presentations, design projects, education, classroom. All are printable and by just selecting the land and removing the color you have a blank map that can be customized. See all of our editable country maps at www.bjdesign.com
Top Presentation Tips: An occasional series on handy tips to help you with your presentations
Keep Your Fonts Simple in Your Presentation
Choose a font that is simple and easy to read. If you travel with your presentation choose a font that you know will be on all PCs like Arial, Times New Roman or Verdana, stay away from the fancy ones. One font for headlines and a second for body copy, with the type size fairly large, say 30pt, so everyone can read the slides. Give your font some contrast against the background color to help them stand out.
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.
