Our push pin PowerPoint maps are a great new addition to our free downloadable templates selection.
These are maps of individual countries with separate images of drawing pins. The vector maps include France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland and the UK and more. With these templates you can insert the “pins” into places of interest and then label them as you wish. These can be used in PowerPoint slides, in web pages and blogs, or anywhere else where they may be helpful. At the moment we have maps of most European countries, also we have free editable PowerPoint maps of North America and now editable world maps.
This is what you’ll need to do in order to use these maps in PowerPoint. First download the map file. All the maps are in vector format and consist of a separate outline and fill. When you open the file you will find a page with a map of Europe and a set of ten coloured pins.
You can copy and paste the maps into new slides, change the fill colour and outline colour, resize them and add shadows and other effects. You can also copy and paste the various coloured pins, place them on the maps and and resize them for your needs. Since the maps are a combination of fills and outlines to move them around it is better to group the desired layers first and move and resize them together then ungroup them when you need to adjust individual colours, outlines and fill styles.
We have also provided example files of various effects you could use with the maps and we have separated out some of the most used maps for you already and these come on individual slides.
How we did it.
Here is how we achieved the various effects found in our example files
1.Double lined stroke
To achieve the double lined stroke effect in the map above you will need a map with just an outline layer and a map with just a fill layer. Make sure that the fill layer is below the outline layer. On the fill layer select line style andadd a line (stroke) of 6pt, then give it a colour different to the fill colour. Adjust the map outline layer so that the line is 2pt and also give that a different colour. You have now created double lined stroke.
2.Image and pattern fills
You can apply various pattern and even image fills to vector objects in PowerPoint. First with your mouse select the shape you want to fill then select fill colour > fill effects, you can then select pattern or texture. For an image fill in the same menu select picture > select a picture and then navigate to the desired picture on your computer. To created effects on just the line select line color > patterned line and choose a pattern and colour combination, or alternatively select line style > more lines and choose a line style.
With these techniques you can created many varied and interesting effects.
Here are the links to all the files you might need:
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Posted by Rick Thick — 20 July 2007 @ 1:46 am
Thank you for your great contribution. May I have the map of Asia.
Posted by paradee14 — 21 July 2007 @ 6:42 am
good idea
Posted by gg — 3 August 2007 @ 10:19 am
This is really great. I used it in Excel to provide a simple map people could click on and find the staff member allocated to that area (through hyperlinks.) Should save me huge amounts of time!
Posted by Elizabeth — 3 August 2007 @ 3:41 pm
Great map of Europe that I can edit in powerpoint. Thanks.
Posted by Fred Dickson — 9 August 2007 @ 3:21 pm
thanks for the comments, we should have some more maps coming soon
Any world maps showing the continents? It would be really helpfull. Great work though!
Posted by Carlos Muina — 13 November 2007 @ 8:04 pm
i need map of Egypt:)
Posted by Ziyada — 15 November 2007 @ 8:53 am
thanks for the free map.hope you guys can add asia map as well.
Posted by stfnd — 6 December 2007 @ 10:20 pm
You’re a really big help
It would be great if you can add southeast Asia to your map list as well. Thanks!
Posted by goldie — 6 January 2008 @ 3:48 am
I need a map of Puerto Rico
Posted by Avizayas — 1 February 2008 @ 1:57 am
there should be more on families
Posted by Ashley — 12 February 2008 @ 3:11 pm
Does anyone have the states Hawaii and Alaska? I did not see these in the North America maps
Thanks.
Posted by Angela B — 15 February 2008 @ 7:56 pm
very good themplate
Posted by Anonymous — 17 February 2008 @ 9:20 am
I need. I need. You owe it to me to produce more maps and produce, host, and manage all these free products.
Come on people.
Thanks for the excellent products you have made.
Posted by Bob — 22 February 2008 @ 12:52 pm
Hi Bob. Thanks for the feedback but we run this site in the spare time we will add in some more maps when we get a chance. What other types of maps would be useful?
It’sa great Template concieved with a great idea,…
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Posted by marcelle — 16 March 2008 @ 7:13 pm
You guys rocks and deserve support, thank you.
Posted by Luigi — 28 March 2008 @ 12:49 pm
When I click the link to download as PPT file or “maps of europe.ppt I get a presentation that I cannot save. Is there some other link, or somthing different I can do?
Thank you - if I can get these maps they will be a great help.
Posted by Tracy — 9 April 2008 @ 9:54 pm
Tracy
I presume that you can open the presentation in a browser. To save the presentation I would suggest that you right click and select “save target as” to save a copy on your machine - or you should be able to “save as” from your browser.
Thank you - I was trying to save after I opened, did not know the trick you recommeded. It worked perfectly. Thank you for both the maps and the advice.
Posted by Tracy — 24 April 2008 @ 4:20 pm
The maps are such a great help for presentations! But could you upload ones for Asia and for the rest of the world?
Posted by Angela — 27 April 2008 @ 8:56 pm
I need a map of UK, Europe and Dubai (with pins) and I don’t seem to be able to download from your site. Please could you help me?
Thanks
Posted by Lisa — 28 May 2008 @ 12:44 pm
I need a map of Bulgaria and Romania for a survey presentation. Pls help me. Thank you in advance. e-mail- profita@dir.bg
Posted by Tania — 29 May 2008 @ 3:33 pm
You guys are awesome! I love this =)
Posted by admin — 3 June 2008 @ 2:59 pm
Hi,
Looks like a lot of them are benifitted becos of your maps. I need the MAP of INDIA..
Can you pls help me ??
Thanks
Charles.
Great material!
Are you planning an update of the Balkan are? Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo are seperate countries…
Many thanks!
Posted by Arnoud — 25 September 2008 @ 9:16 am
really good help, but I also need an add-on for Lithuania… Can anyone help?
Posted by Linda — 16 October 2008 @ 2:47 pm
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The World and North/Central America maps are great! But I cannot find the European maps. When I click on the link to download them I am taking to another page…help me find the link?!
Posted by Jon C — 18 November 2008 @ 2:09 pm
Yes it looks as though we may have a problem with the links on this page we will tyr to fix it.
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The world maps are absolutely fantastic. Thank you very much.
Posted by David Campbell — 14 January 2009 @ 2:07 am
Brilliant!
Posted by Peter — 16 January 2009 @ 1:53 pm
Thank you for your precious contribute…
ciao ciao
Posted by sergio — 21 January 2009 @ 1:25 pm
Hi
Great maps - and useful in a number of situations. Will definitely be back to look through the site when time permits as there appears to be a whole raft of fantastic content.
One minor gripe about the Europe map is that the UK is a single blob as opposed to being made up of the four constituant parts. I guess this is a question for forums - but is it possible to alter the components and split them into sup components for want of a better term.
Again, excellent site - and the maps will be VERY useful
Thanks
Milks
Posted by Milky — 25 January 2009 @ 9:33 pm
Thank you so much for these maps… have made my life a lot easier!
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Where can I find free downloadable/editable US Maps for ppt?
Posted by AJ — 26 February 2009 @ 6:54 pm
thank you so so much
Posted by Jonathan — 1 March 2009 @ 7:26 pm
thank you very much…i love it.
Posted by june — 13 March 2009 @ 8:13 am
Good stuff - thanks a lot for making this available!
Posted by Geza — 20 March 2009 @ 4:43 pm
excellent worked really well thank you.
Posted by orla — 23 March 2009 @ 10:28 pm
Hi! I’m looking for a map of South Africa.. is there anywhere on the web that I can find a map like this?
Posted by Jeanne — 26 March 2009 @ 1:11 pm
I don’t know how to open the file can someone tell how that would be great. But other than that it looks good.
Thanks
Posted by Austin — 3 April 2009 @ 11:08 pm
Brilliant site.
Thank you very much, exactly what i was looking for and surprisingly hard to find on the web!
Much appreciated.
Posted by Benjamin — 7 April 2009 @ 4:22 pm
Misaotra betsaka (ThX a lot)
A student in Madagascar
Posted by Rivo Raoel — 8 April 2009 @ 12:54 pm
[...] in web pages and blogs, or anywhere else where it might be helpful. At the moment we have maps of UK & Europe, also we have free editable PowerPoint maps of North America and now editable world [...]
[...] in web pages and blogs, or anywhere else where it might be helpful. At the moment we have maps of UK & Europe, also we have free editable PowerPoint maps of North America and now editable world maps. If you [...]
[...] in web pages and blogs, or anywhere else where it might be helpful. At the moment we have maps of UK & Europe, also we have free editable PowerPoint maps of North America and now editable world maps. If you [...]
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Great templates and Thanks atons for sharing it God Bless you.
cheers
Posted by pd — 25 May 2009 @ 5:38 pm
Excellent Templates - just the thing I am looking for
Posted by Janet Keating — 29 May 2009 @ 9:25 am
The map will be used to illustrate a gameboard.
Posted by Tru — 30 May 2009 @ 3:27 pm
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Great maps, and pins. But how do I download the pins without shadows?
Posted by Laura — 5 June 2009 @ 3:38 pm
[...] in web pages and blogs, or anywhere else where it might be helpful. At the moment we have maps of UK & Europe, also we have free editable PowerPoint maps of North America and now editable world maps If you [...]
[...] in web pages and blogs, or anywhere else where it might be helpful. At the moment we have maps of UK & Europe, also we have free editable PowerPoint maps of North America and now editable world [...]