How to do location Mapping in ppt presentation – Complete Guide

Location mapping is widely used in fields like Management Consulting, Sales, Marketing, etc where people demonstrate the positioning of the subject property and the connectivity status from the subject property.

Today we will see how to prepare a complete Location map consisting of implementation of different icons, laying of roads, changings the design style of the map, etc

Getting the map from Google Maps

There are two ways of inserting the map

1.    Method 01 - We can take the screenshot from google maps, by hitting the PrtScr button and pasting it in paint. Later, saving the image in the desired location

2.    Method 2 With the help of a snipping tool, cut the area of the map you require and save the image in the desired location.

Below you can see the desired area of the map is cropped with the help of the snipping tool and saved.

Inserting Image in ppt of Map

To insert the image,

Steps - Click on Insert -> Click on Pictures -> Click this device

Now, we have inserted the image of the location we have cropped since the map looks very normal firstly, we will learn to change the Colour of the Map.

 

Changing Image Colour in ppt

There are two ways to get the Picture Format tab, you can double click on the image, and directly it will take you to the Picture format tab, or you can single click on the image, then click on the Picture Format tab.

Once you have clicked on the picture format tab, you can change the color of the map as seen below

You can choose the color style whichever suits your presentation the best, for me, I have opted for the first style.

Inserting the Location Point

Once the Map and the desired style have been inserted, the first thing we can do is to insert the location point so we can further have a reference point of the map we are executing.

To insert the Location pinpoint, click on Insert -> Icons

After you have moved to the insert pan, you can type Location and insert the icon as you can see in the below image

Adjust the location pinpoint and drag to the desired subject location. As the color of the pinpoint is not properly visible, we can change to color as per our requirement, for that

Double click over pinpoint -> Graphic fill -> Desired Colour

Inserting Roadways Connectivity

Click on Insert -> Shapes -> Freeform shape

After Selecting the freeform shape, you can drag the points on the map where the roads are and mark the roads as required.

Once you have marked the lines, you can change the color of the freeform and the weight of the freeform as required to your requirement.

Differentiating demographic population in different area’s

We can highlight the demographic area distribution based on the population with different colors with the same use of freeform shape. Here I will demonstrate to give you a bit idea regarding it.

With the freeform, we have pointed the locations and now, we will be filling them with different colors, to make them more easily understandable.

Click on the shape -> Click on Shape fill -> Choose your desirable color

As we can see, the borders the still visible of different colors, so we can change the same from

Shape outline -> No outline/selecting the same color of the shape fill, you can follow steps from the image provided below

Now we are almost ready with the demographic representation, You can further play more with the Insert ->Shapes pan and further upgrade the model to the required need as you can see in the below case.

Grouping items in ppt

The last thing that mandatory has to be performed so that every item you have placed in the image stays in the same position is to group the image.

Step 1 For that firstly make a left click from the mouse and select the full screen as you can see below

Step 2 Picture Format -> Right corner click on Group

 Like this, all the attachments will become one single unit.

Here we have the final output. Further, you can add a text box, icons, borders, etc based on the requirement and the need.