Map to Party

task

You are having a Birthday Party at your house. You are going to send out invitations but you need to include a map for your friends so that they can find your house. You are to create your own Map using Techsoft Designer. Your Map should be an edited 'trace off' of a Google Map you have copied using the Snipping Tool. Add your house (can be made up!) onto the map and use a dotted line to indicate the best route to take. You may include additional instructions if you wish.You will need to make use of Closed Bezier Curves, Polylines, Text (including Text on Curves) and Colour Fills.

Use the video tutorials below to help you.


Software

Title

Duration

YouTube Version

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Map 1 - Layers and Google

3 mins

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Map 2 - Creating Roads and Labelling them

6 mins

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Map 3 - Small joined roads and curved text

3 mins

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Map 4 - Outputting your Map as a JPEG image

2 mins

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Example of a Map - Click on the Map to see a bigger version

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