Stop Four – Mapping
Make Your Map Better
You Now Have Your Link That You Can Send To Anyone
(Try it though to ensure you have the correct settings).
This should be on first slide/page of your TP.
MORE – EDIT AND MANAGE YOUR MAP – Experiment and try!
There is so much you can do. It is time to explore!
Go to Manage and share your map
You can:
- Delete map content
- Edit, move, and merge map content
- Style and label map content
- Manage locations in a data table
- Organize map content with layers
- Measure distance and area
- Manage your maps in Google Drive
- Style numeric data on My Maps
One example – Style and label map content – look for the paint roller under the untitled layer in the dialog box on the left (you will rename the layer).
You can colour the content on your map. For example, style a map of your favourite places in a new city to understand which are restaurants, which are bars, and which are landmarks.
Style your place marks, lines, and shapes
You can style all your items in a layer together, or style them separately.
Style content together
Open a new or existing My Map.
Select the layer you want to edit.
Click Style below the layer title.
Select how you want to style your layer content under the “Group places by” drop down:
Uniform style – This choice makes all the content looks the same but allows you to change the colour and icon shape of the places at once.
Sequence of colours and letters – This choice automatically assigns a colour gradient and letter to each place mark icon, keeping the same order as Individual styles. You can change the icon shape.
Individual styles – This choice gives you the option to colour all of your content one by one, and give them all different styling.
Style by data column – This choice gives you the option to use a data column to group your data for styling. Click one of the column titles to select it, then click the radio button next to the type of style:
Range – This option breaks up your numeric data set into up to 8 buckets. You have the option to have this displayed in a gradient or assign each respective bucket a unique colour.
Categories – This option groups your data into matching attributes and sorts them in descending order by amount of map content present.
Select from different colours, icon shapes, and line widths. You can also choose from a large set of fun icons by clicking the More icons button or add your own custom icons.
Once you’ve selected how to style the overall layer, you can modify the style, or change individual elements.
Style individual places, lines, and shapes
Open a new or existing My Map.
Click the piece of content in the left panel you want to style.
Click the colour button Colour or a different icon shape.
Label your markers, lines, and shapes
You can choose to display labels for any feature directly on the map for easy browsing:
Open a new or existing My Map.
Select the layer to which you want to add the labels.
Click Style below the layer title.
Click the “Set labels” drop-down menu, then select the column header you want to have label the features on your map.
YOU HAVE TO EXPERIMENT.