Map design

GREEN - Weir to Weir - [ Filming with CD/MB - FRIDAY @ 3pm & Sun@ 3pm]
 Agreed Points of Interest on this Route [15] : Hirst Wood, Hirst Lock / Weir / Mill,/ The Lodge / Bandstand / Cricket Pavilion / Sports area / tennis courts, Shipley Glen/Tramway/Dodgems, Higher Coach Road Estate / The Mansion

1.  Roberts Park
2. cricket pavilion
3. the mansion

BLUE - Lock to Wharf - [Filming with CD/MB - Friday @ 4.30pm & Sun@ 12pm]

Agreed Points of Interest on this Route [6]:  Shipley Wharf / Canal boats, Saltaire train station, UR Church, Salts Mill / Early Music Shop

1. Canal boats
2. Saltaire train station
3. UR Church

RED - Mill to Mill - [Filming with CD/MB - Friday @ 5.30pm & Sun@1pm]

Agreed Points of Interest on this Route [10]: Salts Mill, Shipley Wharf / Noble Comb, Shipley Wharf / Swing Bridge, Saltaire & Shipley train stations, Dixon Mill, Lower Holme Mill, Victoria Mill

1. Salts Mill
2. Victoria Mill
3. Swing Bridge

For unit 75 we need to do a simple to read map of leeds to liverpool canal map with button pressing infomation popping animtion.

for today we in-printed symbols into our map symboliezing key areas of our map so for example trees for trees, building for building and a H for hospital. the way we did this was we copied and pasted an image from the internet that symbolies our areas onto a new page on photoshop, I then went on to edit then pressed define brush pattern then went onto my map page, click onto the brush tool then brush preset picker and look for the newly designed brush and then click on the different parts of my map to put my symbols.

What i want for my map is a simple but very attractive map, colourful, and to have icons of certain building and landmarks placed all over my map but i want these icons to look cartoonish or to have some sort of cartoon characteristic to it and when you hovered over it with your mouse it would change slightly to let you know you can click and when you click onto it, it zooms in closer  to a box of infomation or it takes you to a different page or the whole infomation pops out underneath on a sticky note. People would follow the map up the canal bouncing from landmark to building to building to landmark.

 

 this is what i want to go for or its a ruth idea that im swinging with for know but i though since it a map i would go with a pirates map to make look good or to give it some charm. the main routes are the high lighted stuck out ones, the red for the road, blue for the canal and greenish grey the train. for icons i put trees as icons forest and basic greeny area, the trainstation symbol for the train, H for the hospital and certain building blocks for building, so far this is what i've done