Custom Maps and Panoramic Photography from John Potter on Vimeo. TRANSCRIPT
	Escape Key Graphics supplies some of the coolest attraction and park illustrated maps you have ever seen. Using the latest technologies and years of creative, artistic experience Escape Key Graphics produces attractive, informative and accurate maps. These maps are beautiful, colorful and easy to read. Vector based for maximum resolution these maps can be blown up to a poster of any size without degradation. The vector based technique used by Escape Key Graphics also means that buildings, paths and everything else in your map is like an object that can be moved, shrunk, deleted, etc, making revisions easy and quick. Expansion of your park, site, or facilities no longer means recreating your map from scratch. Escape Key Graphics can enhance your maps by providing corresponding Google Earth maps that can be downloaded from your website or displayed online using Google Maps. Panoramic photography can also be linked from online maps to give potential visitors an exciting taste of the experience your venue provides. Escape Key Graphics has been specializing in attraction maps, theme park maps and parks, but this doesn't mean Escape Key Graphics can't do the same thing for other applications as well. Escape Key Graphics can create great maps for campuses, hospitals, housing complexes or just about any other place. Escape Key Graphics can show how work flows through your factory, how an ecosystem works or produce any of a number of other map like visual solutions. In fact, one previous project was featured on Digital Urban, an Urban Planning blog in the UK. Be sure and check out the videos below as well as the embedded Google map. A more complete article on the Flamingo Gardens project, The Dinosaur World Florida project and Google Earth Maps are available on EscapeKeyGraphics.com. Contact Escape Key Graphics for your map and cartography needs.

Hi. I'm John Potter. I work under the title Escape Key Graphics.

I want to describe some of my favorite services and how they can be tied together.

I do a lot of different things, but one of my specialties is designing and illustrating maps. These maps can work great for campuses, factories, museums and lots of other stuff, but I am going to refer to them in the context of parks and attractions.

These maps are fun, colorful and informative. They are easy to follow and make it easy for guests to find what they are looking for.

I usually start a map design by collecting GPS data that ensures accuracy. By using GPS I can also create accurate maps at sites where tree cover is an issue, and using aerial photography isn't very helpful.

Initially I map everything out from above like a road map to ensure that placement and scale are correct. From there I take the overhead layout, turn it into a perspective drawing, and turn it into a real work of art. The artwork is fun to look at, but retains the practical details established in the first steps.

The maps are perfect for printing as guest maps and a lot more. They can potentially serve double duty as lobby brochures as well.

The maps are vector based, which means you can enlarge them as much as you want without the image degrading. As a result they can be used for signs, posters or even billboards. The methods I use also make revisions relatively easy and cost effective should they be necessary in the future.

The maps can be displayed on your website as JPGs, GIFs, PNGs or PDFs. Maps can also be used as wallpapers for download. Before I describe how these maps can be used on your website too much I would like to describe another service I offer...Panoramic Photography. Some people call them virtual tours, but whatever you call them, they're really cool.

Panoramic photography takes still photography and turns it into something more like a video, but you, the user, can control it. You can look from side to side and up or down just by using your mouse. This very immersive experience makes you feel very much like you are there, but still wanting to stand there in the flesh. Unlike video, panoramic photography allows users to move at their own pace and concentrate on what interests them the most. Panoramic photography is also a great tool to show off your gift shop, museum exhibits, real estate, RVs, yachts and/or just about any other environment.

Once you have the panoramic photography on your site you can link to it with simple text links or thumbnails, but if you also have a map, they can be integrated into it. The map can be made clickable so that visitors to your site can see the map and just click on points of interest and be sent right into a panoramic photo as if they have been transported there. This could also be done in a PDF if you needed something that you could, for instance, email while still retaining the links.

If you prefer, the information initially collected for the creation of the map can be used to overlay clickable points of interest through Google Maps on your site. Once again, clicking on the points of interest can send visitors right into a panoramic photo as if they have been transported there. Any paths established in the initial stages can also be overlaid through Google Maps on your site.

Of course, either of these techniques of linking from maps could be used to link to anything else, for instance, conventional photos or articles.

So, you've got maps that can be used for handouts and brochures. They could be used for lobby flyers as well to reduce your printing costs. They can be used for signage, posters in your gift shop and billboards. They can be displayed on your website and made into monitor wallpapers for people to download, and they can also be used on your website as a way to navigate panoramic photos. They can be linked to other information and or linked in a PDF you could attach to an email or burn onto disk. The data initially collected and created for the maps creation can also be integrated into Google Maps on your site in multiple ways. That's at least nine possible uses for your map and several possible uses for the data involved.

The panoramic photos serve as the perfect compliment to the maps. If someone has taken the time to visit your website while planning a vacation, panoramic photos will convince them they HAVE to visit your venue.

Lastly, if you need a website built to tie this all together I can do that too. Just let me know what you have in mind and we can go from there.

I hope this gives you some ideas for marketing your business. I can bring creativity and expertise to your marketing plan that helps you achieve your goals. You're spending the money on printing. You're paying for web hosting and domain registration. Make sure you're getting the most out of both and open up to new possibilities by working with me, John Potter of Escape Key Graphics.

Visit my websites, AttractionMaps.net and EscapeKeyGraphics.com to see samples of my work, more videos and lots of other stuff.