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Editable MS PowerPoint and EPS clipart maps for sales and marketing presentations, illustrations, and websites. Royalty Free, World, USA, States, County, Countries, World Regions, and Globes.

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Is there a World PowerPoint map that is editable and that I can use to show where my companies offices are? Can I color each country? How about highlighting the map to show locations or where my customers are?

No problem at all. PowerPoint maps from Maps for Design are completely editable. Each country is an individual element. Countries can colored, or pulled out, deleted if need be, set up to form regions. Maybe you want to edit the text, or add a star to show an office. These maps are full fledge PowerPoint files, all of the tools and features in the drawing bar apply. The maps come already inserted into the slide so you can get started right away. Check out the site, lots of sample to review, FAQ to give you help and tons of maps. Including USA plus World, States, Countries, Counties, Regions and Globes.

People are often looking for a free world map, whither it be a Mercator or Robinson projection, or maybe a Sinusoidal you know the orange peel style. Maps can be either a political map with each country shown as a different color or maybe a physical projection, showing the land, rivers, mountains and oceans. Maps can be decorative or practical. With tremendous amounts of detail or simple shapes, maps have fascinated mankind since the dawn of time. So whither you are looking to buy a map or find a free world map, there are many to choose from.

To learn more about world maps check out this link.

Or maybe to buy some clip art World or US maps for your latest project

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How to Video showing how to enlarge or reduce a group of clipart state, country or county PowerPoint maps from www.mapsfordesign.com or www.bjdesign.com.

To enlarge several states or counties you need to GROUP them together.

1 Hold down the Shift key and using the pointer CLICK using the right button on the PC mouse and the regular click on the Mac mouse, on the states you want to enlarge together.

2 Once the states are selected click on the DRAW popup menu in the TOOL BAR along the bottom and choose GROUP.

3 You will now see just 8 handles on your selected group. Place your pointer over one of the lower left or right corner handles. Click, and hold down the mouse button and drag the handle in a diagonal 45 degree direction. This will enlarge the group. Release your mouse button when you have the correct size. Pulling out, the group will enlarge, moving in towards the center it will reduce. Holding down the SHIFT key will keep things proportional.

4 Text elements will need to be re-adjusted manually, they will move to the correct place but in PowerPoint they do not scale up or down. You may also need to UNGROUP them and move them where needed. The text can be resized using the Font Tools along the top of the screen.

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Editable MS PowerPoint clipart maps for sales and marketing presentations, illustrations, and websites. Royalty Free, World, USA, States, County, Countries, World Regions, and Globes.

Each state, county, country, text block is an individual element that can be customized, changed, colored however you like.

Perfect for sales and marketing presentations, showing sales territories, office locations, project progress.

Learn more at http://www.mapsfordesign.com or http://www.bjdesign.com

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There are many different kinds of maps on the market. From a free world map to one that costs a bundle. But before we get there is is good to identify the kind of map you are looking for. Maps come in what is called a projection. A projection is a way of translating a three-dimensional real surface into a two-dimensional picture like a map. The best know style of map projection is called a Mercator Projection.

The Mercator Projection is what is called a cylindrical map projection. Originally designed by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator. These go back to 1569. This the map that is usually formed in a rectangle shape. With this map the area along the equator is fairly accurate but as we move towards the poles the land masses become distorted. Some of the other popular projections are Robinson, Sinusoidal, Peters and Mollweide.

To learn more about the Mercator Projection check out the Wikipedia link.

There are a lot of different kinds of projections of the world. In fact it is actually all just math and by changing the formulas you can come up with a wide variety of different projections.

Here are just few of them highlighted at Free World Map

Albers equal-area conic projection, this is a conic, or equal area map projection

Azimuthal equidistant projection, often use for polar projection where all of the distances are measured from the center of the map. This projection is used on the United Nations Flag.

Behrmann Projection, this is a cylindrical projection

Bonne projection, sometimes called a Sylvanus Projection, or an equal-area map projection.

Craig retroazimuthal projection, this was created by James Ireland Craig in 1909, a cylindrical projection and sometimes also know as the Mecca projection because is is cented on Mecca in Saudi Arabia

Just a few of them, we will cover more later here at Free World Map