How to draw a travel map

The drawing of tourist maps should start from the aspects of mapping purpose, presentation content and presentation form.

First, the purpose of compiling the map must be clear. When designing a tourist map, it is necessary to understand which readers the map serves, what tourist spatial information it provides, in what aspects it should be improved and updated compared to previous similar maps, and it is necessary to understand the overall requirements for compiling tourist maps.

To achieve a clear purpose, it is necessary to select target information of tourist areas in a targeted manner and select relevant information that is convenient for tourists to visit and live. Designers should make full use of existing information, such as tourism resource status, regional natural and social environment and related maps, photos, paintings, etc. They should conduct on-site inspections, investigate and study the requirements of tourism map users, and conduct research on previous information. To verify and supplement, there must be clear guiding ideology and principles for handling materials.

Second, the content must be clearly expressed. According to the purpose of the map, scale, format, landscape characteristics of the mapping area and user needs, select and strengthen the main, typical content that has an important role and impact on the theme performance, and discard the secondary content that is related to the map theme. For small or irrelevant content, select the content in the order from overall to partial, from high-level to low-level, and from major to minor. Different types of tourist maps have different selection contents.

Tourist transportation diagrams should describe transportation lines, levels, and transportation ports (stations) in detail, while elements unrelated to transportation and tourism (such as factories, soil, geology, etc.) need to be discarded. Tour guide maps should clearly indicate tourism resources, tour routes, and information on tourism, shopping, entertainment, food, accommodation, and transportation related to tourists' tours and life. Transportation lines and transportation ports outside the area or far away from scenic spots can be Omit. The degree of generalization and selection of tourist maps varies depending on the scale.

On small-scale tourism maps, tourism resources and other elements must be highly summarized, cities must be merged into blocks, or even represented by hierarchical concentric circles, and scenic areas can only be represented by a small pictographic symbol. On large-scale tourist maps, parts can be expressed in more detail. Every street in the city, even every building, every path in the scenic spot, every mountain peak, and every tourist spot must be represented more accurately.