

Note: Google My Maps is free for everyone and intended for personal use. To complete this task I used Google My Maps Pro because it provides a powerful tools for custom map creation, collaboration, and sharing. By having a visual representation of all these factors it helped them to decide which area they should focus on when looking for suitable relocation premises. They also wanted to be able to view which of these was located within a 10 mile, 20 mile and 50 mile radius of their current location.

We’ve all heard the expression ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ and the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote in the book “Fathers and Sons” in 1862, “A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound.” The same can be said of a good map, especially when it’s a map that you’ve created showing you exactly what you want to know.įor example, I was recently asked by a client, who is planning to relocate their business, to provide a map which showed them where they were currently located, where their competitors were located and where their employees were located.
