How to Make a Clickable Interactive Map
A clickable, interactive map customizes how the data displays. Websites, such as iMapBuilder, offer a gallery of formatted templates that you fine-tune for your onscreen viewers. Pre-designed map templates save you time and energy spent on formatting. Accessing the tools, such as points, lines and text, helps define the data and improves readability as your viewers interact and analyze the map. For example, store customers can look up a map for convenient store locations; transit passengers can plan their trips according to bus route maps.
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Instructions
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Launch the Web browser.
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Open the iMapBuilder website, imapbuilder.com. Download and install the program. It's free.
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Click the iMapbuilder’s desktop icon to open the Project Wizard.
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Click the “Create” button in the “Create New Map Project” section to bring up a gallery of approximately 150 interactive map templates.
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Double-click to select a map template thumbnail. Examples include “Word Continents with Names,” “Europe Map with Country” and “World Continents-Ancient Theme.” The map template expands.
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Customize the map by clicking the tools on the left pane. Examples include “Add a Placemark,” “Edit Label,” “Define “Custom Region” and “Add a Legend.”
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Save this map by clicking the “File” tab to display a list of commands, including "Save As."
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Click “Save As” to open the dialogue box. Type a file name in the “File name” text box. This map saves as “iMapBuilder Project (*.fmp).”
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Click "Save."
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Tips & Warnings
Editing commands also customize pre-existing maps files.
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