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To create a map using Visio, you open the appropriate template under File>New>Map, and there's two to choose from. We will first look at Directional Map. So the directional map template consists of the following stencils: transportation shapes, recreation shapes, road shapes, metro shapes and landmark shapes. So road shapes are where you would normally start, and like always we drag those onto the page. And the first thing to notice about these shapes, we zoom in on those ones, is that some of them are 2D shapes and some 1D. So the straight ones are 1-dimensional; the curved and block type shapes are 2-dimensional shapes. So that's something to keep in mind when you are gluing shapes together, because the normal behavior for 1D and 2D shapes applies. So we can for example drag this road down here, move it against here, and you will see it's glued into position. Because that's a 2D shape we click and drag now on that, both the thing stays glued into place there. If however we move on the 1D shape, then we will disconnect that. If you want to make sure they always stay together, then the thing to do is to select them both - holding down the shift key, selecting both. And then choosing Shape>Grouping>Group - that makes it one entity now and no matter where we drag on that, the two remain linked together. Just delete that we will start again. Let's make bit of a map. If we want to expand a road, we can just click on its end to increase its length. Now if we want the road to be going in the vertical orientation, we need to rotate the road length. And when you are dealing with roads, it's probably a good idea to go up to the tool bars, right click and turn on the Action toolbar. And this gives you ready access to all the tools for flipping and rotating shapes. So we want to rotate this one to make it vertical, so we can click the appropriate toolbar button there. If we wanted to then join that onto an intersection, we could drag that on there, and drag the 1D shape down to the 2D, we get the gluing behavior occurring. We might want to choose something from a different stencil to decorate our map. Drag them on, and we can resize those according to what we need. It's possible to change the thickness of the road by clicking first to select the road segment, and right clicking and choosing a selection from the list. That's thin, we saw standard, that's thick, now we can also choose a custom setting. When we choose Custom a little control handle appears there, that yellow diamond. If we move over that, we see 'modify road width'. And if I click and drag down now, we increase the width, or drag up - the width is reduced. We can also change the relative sizing of the roads, for all roads on the page. If we make sure nothing is selected, right click on the page and select Road Properties, then the custom properties dialog box appears, and we can change here the road width. So if we change that for example to 5mm, our road width has changed accordingly, just undoing that. Now we also have a template here for metro, which is railway type shapes. So they act exactly the same. If we want to mark a station, we can bring in a station marker. We might want to show the transfer between two stations. So we can bring in the transfer symbol that we would need to rotate, bring it on here and connect them together. We can change the width of those in similar way. If I right click Road Properties and make the change under metro To see the change there, and we'd need to reposition those to make that appear, and we could resize those etc to get that looking right. As far as labeling shapes go, same applies as usual. We can click on a shape and type to enter a label. Or we can use some of the predefined shapes that are available to us on the landmark shape stencil, and we have a callout there or text blocks with various sized fonts that we can utilize to save time. We can add directional markers there, dragging those on. And we can use the rotation tool to change their direction as needed. We can put a scale onto our drawing, and then by selecting the text tools, we can go in and type the scale applying for example. So that covers the basic directional map. Let's have a look at the 3D version. So we can choose it here from the template to start a new file, or we could just open the relevant template on the same page if we chose to - we can access that from the Stencil toolbar button here and select Map, and we could also have opened the Directional Map Shapes 3D there. So this template works a little differently as far as the road segments go. If I drag a segment on there, and let's zoom on it. Now if I resize it, you will notice the width changes at the same time as I'm dragging. So that's different to the case with the simple directional map. Now to create a road then and keep the same width, if I want to create a longer segment of road, I have to drag multiple shapes onto the page. Or I can otherwise select a shape and press Control + D to generate new segments, and then drag them into position. I can then drag other items onto the road like cars or trains, what have you. And again you may need to reorientate them using the symbols up here to get things appearing as you need them. So in this stencil, we have some good pictures of buildings we can drag on beside our roadway. If we need to move them more exactly into position we can nudge them into shape, into position using the arrows on the keyboard. Using the down arrow there on, I'm moving it into correct position there.