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Make Your Own Custom Google Maps Quickly And Easily With Scribble Maps

Who doesn’t love Google Maps? I’ve been using Google Maps for searching for local businesses or addresses, to map out driving instructions, and even looking up people’s phone numbers and have been loving it every step of the way!

Today I want to introduce you to a site I came across and from which I have not yet fully harnessed all of its possibilities. Check out with me Scribble Maps!  The front page does a good job describing what it is it offers:  the ability to use Google Maps to make custom maps… rapidly!

I am planning on trying the custom images/overlay abilities. I’m wondering if this could be a way to create better hiking maps so I am going to attempt to overlay some less-detailed trail maps and add the details that Google Maps offers.

Here is the menu options (you get this box when you click on the “menu” button on the list of buttons at the top left of the page).

And here is the list of buttons:

As you can see, there are quite a few drawing tools to utilize to make the job easier. In the past, I’ve been able to copy sections of Google Maps and paste them into an image editor to do doodling and such, but this site makes the whole process easier.

Check out the site and see what kind of uses you can come up with.  Hey, and if you want to, send me some of your creations so I can see what you’ve done!