Custom Printing Tool for the Custom Maps

[Mark Sedenquist]

We've launched the RTA Custom Map Printing Utility

At the current time, the printing utility is only enabled on the Map Center page, but within the next week or so we'll be offering this tool for maps created on the Map Wizard page.

Once you select a saved map -- either by creating and saving a new one or choosing one from your "My Maps" list on your Map Center page, you'll see that the "Print Saved Map" button will become active on your mapping page.

**You can choose how you want your map to look when it’s printed, and you can choose what other information you’d like to print below the map.

So, please, go and kick the tires and then let us know what you think,

****We know that there are still some remaining bugs when using the IE-8.0 browser, we're working on that****

Please, share your comments and ideas about the new map printing tool here.

Thanks,

RTA Custom Mapping Development Team

[Mark Sedenquist]

One of the really cool things about the Printing tool is that you can use the RTA Custom Mapping program to present the information about your planned trip in a more user-friendly way -- even if you don't print it.

The Print Set-up Page can show you your map & route, and all of the information you've placed on the map -- whether by your own Custom Places (CPs) or the Library RoadTrip Attractions (RAs) that you've loaded.

Check it out!

Mark
Map Support

[Southwest Dave]

Just had a chance to create a map and look at the 'Print set up' page, that's pretty darn cool !

I don't know if it has been discussed before, but can we, or will it ever be possible to use the 'GMAP' tool to display the saved map as we would a Google map? [I know that you can already link to the saved map]

[Mark Sedenquist]

Dave,

That would be a good thing -- I think that might be possible -- I'll look into it.

Mark

[Mark Sedenquist]

We recently received a support question about printing driving directions. Here is a bit more about that:

1. You can print the map with whatever attractions you’ve included on the saved map, but we don’t offer driving directions. So there are no directions of any kind.

* We decided early on, not to provide directions, because our RTA members liked reading maps and felt this was too intrusive.

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I looked at your account and saw that you’ve created two saved maps – Excellent work
(I can’t actually view your maps, all I can see is the enabling data sets – maps are private to you alone – unless you share them!)

So, the way you can get a printed map is:

1. Open the Advanced map page https://www.roadtripamerica.com/maps/mapcenter.php
2. Click on one of your two saved maps (either “xxxxx” or “xxxxxx” – the latter has more attractions on it)
3. Scroll down the page and you will see a “Print Saved Map” button (Click on that)
4. This opens the Print Set-up page, where you can select a bunch of different options for your printed map:
a. Check all (give the entire data pool)
b. Or you can select what kinds of information you want on the map
c. After making your selections, click on “Print Setup”
5. The next screen shows what will be printed
a. If all looks good
b. Look for the Printer symbol above the map pane and click “Print”

The only caveat is that you need to have POP-UP WINDOWS ENABLED on your browser, because that’s how this program works.

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