Impress Event Attendees With an Enhanced Map

With online tools like Google Maps, it’s really easy to create a link to a map that shows your event participants where the event is taking place. Once you have the map link, it’s simple to cut and paste into your event website, onto your registration form, and into your confirmation email. Your map is then easily accessible from a computer or mobile device.

Adding a map to an event website is fairly common these days, and if you invest a few extra minutes you can easily enhance it to make it stand out.

By enhancing a map we mean marking up the map with specific points of interest and notes that your event attendees need such as where to park, where to get a coffee or the best entrance to use.

Here’s an example of an enhanced map:


 
You can access the actual map in the image above with this link – http://goo.gl/maps/bWRHP. 

If you click on any of the icons while viewing the map you’ll see the sample text that we added.

It only takes a minute to add a point on the map and you can choose the icon, colour, title and add and format text. You can even add links to websites, photos and videos, mark out a route, give distances and more.

Once you’ve created a map you can invite other people on your team to collaborate with you and give them permission to add items and edit the map. All changes are updated in real time, so each time someone accesses the map they get the latest.

The number and type of items that you add to your maps will vary depending on the event and where people are coming from, but here are some suggestions to get you started.

Creating a map like our example is easy and it will help you to wow your event participants even before the event starts.

To create one, use the feature in Google Maps called My Maps.

All that you need is a Google account and then follow these steps in this help article.

If you need a hand creating a map call our support team at 1-800-507-3759 or email [email protected] and we will help you get started.

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