1. Building a Map in PowerPoint Steps for inserting and building a map EGEO 250 Lecture 1b Updaged 4/6/2010

2. Desperately Poor in Los Angeles 1990 Note the strong central cluster of the data. Originator: p. buckley Date: today Source: William Bowen’s Electronic Atlas http://130.166.124.2/chi_1. html

3. 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.

4. Cropping map 1. Make map active by clicking with mouse 2.Activate Picture Tools 3.Get cropping tool and crop picture 4. then compress picture tool and compress

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Critiquing the Map 1.Too much white space 2.Title could be a bit smaller 3.Expand cartographic material 4.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

10. Originator: p. buckley Date: 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.

11. Example using Portrait Layout instead of Landscape