How to land Use Map
How to create a Land Use Survey on Google Maps - Course work tips (GCSE, A Level and IB)
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hello everyone in this video we can be
looking at a slightly different set of
skills we can be looking at the skills
that you can use in geography or for any
other subject for that matter to create
a land-use map now you might be aware
that Google creates some very good maps
but what is less well known is the fact
that Google has this function that
allows you to create your own
individualized personal Maps called
Google my maps this is what I'm gonna be
showing you how to use today so we're
gonna create a new map and when it loads
up I'm gonna go to the area that I know
quite well because I'm currently living
in it and it is nice in France there we
go pins being dropped and I'm gonna zoom
into the this area over here there we go
let me focus it now for those of you who
know the area you can see this over here
is the sea and the promenade this is the
commercial area over here the shopping
district this is the old town and the
port is off to the west of here on the
side of the map I'm going to remove this
little label over there there we go so
although this does look very very
similar to a normal standard Google map
it has got some differences you've got
this menu bar over here and you've got
this little section over here that
allows you to to add different layers to
it first thing we're going to do is
we're going to name our map and we're
gonna call it nice land use okay because
that's what we're creating so we have
our nice land use map
now as you know what you want to do when
you're creating a land-use map is you
want to add various color-coordinated
sections or areas to it so you want to
basically I don't know say maybe
highlight this area over here and call
it a shopping district so how do you do
that well the first thing you need to do
is you need to go over here to the draw
a line button you click on that and it
allows you to draw around a certain area
and this map I'm gonna do it very
roughly over here and for you to get the
point let me go and we're gonna call it
a shopping district saved ah you can
also change the color we're gonna pick
for shopping districts we're gonna be
picking red there we go you have other
functions let me go back there you can
change the style you can change the
transparency the border you can
customize it however you want but I'm
just gonna leave it in its normal format
so there we go we've got a shopping
district I can label another area and
give it the same color
say for example I know that this road
over here is a shopping district so I'm
going to add another much thinner area
go I'm gonna call that a shopping
district to district
and I'm gonna pick the same color I
believe it's a spread done so as you can
imagine you can build this map and you
can add lots of colors to it to denote
the different areas that you have
already determined so now remember you
have to go there in the first place and
you have to conduct a survey and when
you're doing a land use survey you need
to kind of like study what the
building's land-use is in the ground
floor only other must put another nice
little area over here I'm just gonna do
this very very quickly because I believe
you're probably getting the point now
I'm gonna call this very simply a park
and because it's a park I'm gonna be
very boring and gonna give it a nice
little green color there we go so this
is the beginnings of a land-use map and
if you're doing this for your coursework
you can imagine how you can expand on it
and you know color coordinate a whole
district that you have studied in
addition to creating various blocks like
we have over here you can also pin point
exactly
imagine you want to do it like a bit of
a dispersal map or you want to kind of
like a pin and look at the distribution
of I know separate crossings bars
restaurants police stations anything you
can imagine
we have this little button over here
which is called the add marker button
i'ma do restaurants would be very boring
there we go restaurant just call it
restaurant done I'm gonna add another
one
just to be quick it's not there let's
move it
right and we are going to rename that
one to restaurant for restaurants you
can see I'm going to be selecting
different color red and we'll be going
with yellow and
ah and as you can notice you can
pinpoint lots of different things all
the way around the map you can add an
infinite amount of pins theoretically
speaking final little thing that allows
you to do over here is it allows you to
measure distances if you are doing a bit
of a dispersal map you can find out what
the distance is between these points are
and you can record that down maybe put
it in the graph screenshot it etc go so
we can see that these two restaurants
are about three hundred and thirteen
meters apart
what this program also allows you to do
is allows you to print off these maps
and lets go into the preview so if I was
to print off this map it would look
something along these lines over here
it's got prints so you can see it
exactly print map landscape print my
printer will pop up here but you'll get
the idea of what I'm talking about there
we go so it prints a nice map it even
creates a key I would imagine you do
want to create your own key to make it a
little bit more detailed I'll leave that
up to you though let's go back there we
go we will go back to the edit mode
so this program is quite useful it
allows you to do a lot of things and it
is extremely useful for your geography
coursework so good luck create some
great coursework make sure that you do
the surveys properly and have a really
great today thank you very much for
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