Task 3: Google Maps

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Above, is a map showing my hometown, Middlesbrough. I have pinpointed and placed place marks of my favourite places and important places in the area. I chose to create my map based on my town as not many people I have met since moving to Coventry for university have not even heard of where I am from never the less been. I have highlighted places which played a huge part in my life whilst living there, including my schools, outside of school activities and the town’s most important places. I firstly started off at my house. The route on which I would then take people on was a difficult one to make as there was so many places I would like for people to see. I decided to take them on a typical daily route I would take into town. This would mean that I could include a lot of places I visit on nights and days as most things are so close to each other in the centre of Middlesbrough, near the town centre. As it was essential for us to include photographs in our map, I chose to use photographs showing the place as a whole as well as photographs of me and my friends in the particular place. This way I am varying my photographs and offering people who view my map see what I have previously done at that place.

During the process of producing this map, I encountered several problems. The first, was drawing lines on roads to show a route. As simple as it is, I made a bit of a pigs ear of it all. After numerous attempts and a bit of help from my course mates, I finally got my desired route onto the map. Another problem I had was getting my photographs onto the place mark. The URL’s i was entering were not functioning properly from the online sharing website, Photobucket, and the only option I could think of was to upload them all individually via another online sharing website, TinyPic. This was very time consuming and frustrating but that was the only way the photographs were going to upload onto the place mark successfully.

After a few glitches to the start of the task, I have actually thoroughly enjoyed this task. It was something different and something I was not aware I could do before. It is something I would recommend others to do and a good way of presenting someone a little mini guide of their hometown.

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~ by katess on March 22, 2010.