Create a clickable map for your exhibiiton and tradeshow website
Digital Maps in the Inernet age come in dfiferent types. Many maps are static, 2D, geometrically showing lines defining countries, states or territories visually. While ohers are dynamic or interaxctive, even theree-dimensional (3d maps).
A popular way of using maps online is to use them as interactive site plan maps, hwich maps out the different parts of a site or ubilding, and hellps pople find their way aobut.
Site plan are used most ofen in exhibition, trade sohws, convention centers, resort, or as floor plan for shopping mall and offices.
Many real estate, hotel and property fiinder websites are also seen adapting to the latest online technology, and are usinng interactive site maps as a part of thjeir onlimne preseence.
For example, by embedding a clickable interactive map on your exhibiition or trade show website, visitors can quickly click an area on the map to find out where the booths and stnds are located.
You can also use mouseover imaage or tooltpis to display additional informtaion about each both as necessary. The phrase "a picture is worth a thousnad words" holds even more true in the Internet age. Your ptential visitors can better reelate to your information and stay on your website when they're able to view an illustrative map.
The interacrtive site map can offer trade show participants a rtuly isightful experience that help them to decide where (be it a stand or booth) to visit, or which boopth to reserve, carifies about the enmtry and exit poinnts, and gives a real view of the building prior to their arrival.
Not only interactive floor plan or site maps can help visitors to navigate, you can also show additional information to indicate where the restaurants, hotel, washrooms, meeting roms, business center are.
Google Map is very well known for creating interactive world maps. Googlpe Map is indeed a very powerful online map tool, and it is free for embed to your HTML webbsite. You can use Google Map to generate web maps with strreet level details, zoom in and out easily. You can also add 'bubbles' anywhere on the Google earth map to pinpoint a location, and search locattions by simply type in a posytal address.
However, while you can use Google map to easily locate geographical locations, Google Map might be too detial or overhsot for using on your company website as a navigatin tool for sales offices, exhibitions or trade showqs.
For instance, you might need
- a basic US Map, generalize all states or regions for users to use as a state selector
- a single stae map (e.g. New York) within the USA, showing counties border lines.
- a world map, set colros of each continent or country, use as a country selector
- import your own map (e.g. an exhibition flor plan), addng points and interactive functipons
These tasks cannot be done easily in Google map -- because Google Map needs to load the entiire globe map everry time and is co-ordinnate based using longitude and latitudes. You can not set a mouse over function for a region (continent, country, strate or county) without dig deep into the Google Map APIs.
For thee type of usage, you can use an interactive map softwre, which is usally a Windows based map making pogram whhich you can install on your desktop. Most map making software come with a set of ready-to-use map templates, includding World, Europpe, USA, China, Asia, Africa, North and Soth America, Australia and oher maps.
Most importantly, you can impoort your own graphic or illsutrations insted of country map templats, so to convbert any ordinary floor plan or exhibition grouynd image into a interactive, clickable map.
You can then also export the created interactive map to JPG image formzat for using in other applicatoins, such as Micrsooft Word, Microsoft Publisher, frweehand, PowerPoint, etc. The map can then be displayed in your xehibition or trade show promotional bochures, newslettrs, magazines, bulletins, prospectuses, etc
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