Below is a combination of Google Earth and PowerPoint map accentuating Kevin Lynch's Imageability: Path, Edge, Landmark, District and Node. All text and lines in PPT.
From Lukinbeal's article on 500 Days of Summer on Mapping Stories.
Google Earth + ESRI image captures.
RGB chart to match colors.
Custom icons were created in Google Earth.
Text & legend done in drawing package.
Need to print for a journal? Increase image resolution by doing screen capture on large monitor.
> Images must be online and have full image name and suffice (.jpg) in URL
> High Speed Internet connection required for film capture.
> Go through fly-through multiple times before filming so 3d buildings render best.
> Narration written and fly-through filmed together for timing.
Choose "Add web image..." and link to a web account like flickr.
<h1><center>Opening Image</center><h1> <h2><center><Summer wear an engagement ring</center><h2>
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Locations in Excel for 500 Days
Color Brewer is by Cynthia Brewer & her amazing research on color and cartography.
By Robert Hibberd from UArizona GIST
> Combine Historic Overlay with 3d view and PowerPoint Mapping
> Lukinbeal research book and film Hombre and Arizona Stagecoach Historic Map
> RGD Color chart done from PPT test in Title applied to map symbols and text.
> Images added, slight transparency set on advertisement.