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Using Google Maps To Mark Distributors

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Using Google Maps To Mark Distributors

This document outlines detailed steps to use google maps to mark locations. this is specially revelevant for people in india or pakistan looking for easy-to-follow steps

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Arsalan Rauf
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1/29/2014

USING GOOGLE MAPS TO MARK DISTRIBUTORS

Planning and Logistics |

Section 1: Making your map and start marking distributors In order to use Google Maps you should have a valid Gmail account. Click here if you do not have an account. After getting a Gmail account, go to maps.google.com in your Internet Explorer. You should see the following screen in your browser window. Click on Sign-in button as shown in the Image (1).

Image 1

You will have to enter your username and password. After that your will see the following screen. Your Name will be appearing in the upper-right corner. Click on My Places button as shown by Red Arrow in Image 2

Image 2

When you click on My Places, you will see that the white column of the screen on the left side will show a few options. List of things shown on this screen can be different depending on the user, so dont worry about it. You will see a red button named Create Map on this screen. Below this button, there is small text in blue color that reads Or create with classic My Maps as shown by the arrow in Image 3. Click on this small blue text.

Image 3

When you have clicked the blue text, white area to the left of the screen changes and shows the following options, as shown in Image 4. Enter the name of your territory in the Title box and select the Unlisted option in Privacy and sharing setting area below. You will also notice that three blue icons have appeared at the top of the screen in the map section. These icons are used to mark distributors on the map. Click Done button after you have entered the territory name and selected the Unlisted option.

Name of Territory

Must be Unlisted Image 4

As an example, I have entered Faisalabad in the Title and List of Distributors in Faisalabad in Description column and selected Unlisted option.

After clicking Done button in the previous screen, you will see the following screen in which name of territory you entered (I entered Faisalabad), the description (I entered List of distributors in Faisalabad) will be visible in left white column. Now you will see a red button Edit on the screen. Click this button and we will be ready to mark distributors on map.

Image 5

After clicking the Edit button, we will again see the screen we saw earlier when creating this map, with the three blue icons at the top of the map screen. Now we are ready to mark our first distributor. Lets take an example of a distributor in Jaranwala. In the map window, we first take the map view to Jaranwala, and then mark the location of Distributors warehouse. As an example, lets assume that this distributors warehouse is located on Lahore Road near Govt. Primary School. To mark this distributor, we will click on the middle icon in from the three blue icons shown at the top-left corner of map screen. Then we will click the point on the map where the warehouse for this distributor is located. This procedure is shown in Image 6. When you mark the location of distributor on the map, according to the procedure in the last paragraph, you will see a box, as shown in Image 7. You will enter the distributor Code and name in this box in this format: 3210508 Al Moazzam Traders, then click OK. This distributor will start appearing in the white column on the left of map screen. Repeat this process for all the distributors and then click Done when all distributors have been marked.

1. First Click here

2. Then click at the location to mark Image 6

4. Click done when distributors have been marked

1. Enter the distributor code and distributor name 2. Click the OK button

Image 7

3. Distributor will start appearing here.

As marking all distributors in one session can be difficult, you can click Done after marking some distributors and sign-out from Google Maps. When you come back, you can sign-in again, select your Map from My Places, click Edit and start the work where you left off.

Section 2: Coming back to your map for editing, changes and addition It is easy to open the map you created earlier for editing and changes. Just follow the following steps: Open maps.google.com in Internet Explorer Sign-in using your account username and password Go to My Places, where all of your maps will be listed Click on the map you want to change Click on Edit to start editing your map. You can o Change the position of markers by dragging them with mouse. o Delete the incorrect markers

Add new markers

Section 3: Sharing your maps with other people When you have completed marking the distributors of your respective territory, you will need to share these maps with people at HO. Procedure to share maps is given below: Sign-in to Google Maps, if you are not already signed in Go to My Places and click on the map you want to share. You will see the screen shown in Image 8 Click on blue Collaborate written above the name of the map A new box will appear on screen, as given in Image 9. Enter the Email addresses of people you want to share the map with in Invite Collaborators sections. If you want to add a message, type it in the Message section. Under Manage Collaborators, activate Collaborators may invite others Click OK

Image 8

Image 9

People you have invited will receive an email of invitation and can see your map now.

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