This How-to article will outline when the feature Guided Tours can be used, what options and limitation there are, and step-by-step instructions on how to create, manage and remove Guided Tours.
Guided Tours
Overview: Brief description of what the feature does and its purpose.
Guided tours display a predefined route on the map without using standard paths or directions.
Its purpose is to provide structured and customisable routes for various use cases.
Key Benefits:
Guided tours provide a possibility to show end-users predefined routes.
They’re easy to spot in the map and easy to locate by search.
Guided tours can be used to showcase specific points of interests along the route.
-Path visualisation and other POI-based interactivity, making the “routes” more informative and engaging.
- Statistical insights
How It Works:
Highlight the main functionality step-by-step.
Guided tours display a predefined route on the map without using standard paths or directions.
Its purpose is to provide structured and customisable routes for various use cases.
Unlike regular paths in MazeMap, which calculate the fastest route from A to B, guided tours can showcase longer routes, such as hiking trails.
Use Cases:
Campus Tours – Helps new students and visitors navigate key locations.
Hiking & Nature Trails – Highlights specific and different routes.
Safety Routes – Defines evacuation or emergency response paths.
Training Routes - training /workout paths with different lengths and difficulty levels.
-Universities and hospitals
Limitations:
Guided Tours are primarily for outdoors routes as it is essentially a visible POI polygon that is created outdoors.
The POI polygon cannot be both inside buildings and outdoors at the same time.
If the guided path is to go inside a building, it might be worth experimenting with creating additional indoors POI polygons in the same colour. However, the indoors POI polygon will not be connected to the outdoors POI polygon.
How to create Guided Paths:
Steps to activate or access the feature.
-MazeMap admin user-access and basic training.
-MazeMap Knowledge HubMap Editor steps
Go to Points of Interests
Check the “Outdoors” box in Quick Tools menu.
Create a polygon POI
Edit the polygon shape according to the route you want it to represent.
Change the name and colour of the POI polygon.
Add a description and picture to the POI polygon.
Place point POIs along the route in case there are any (add description + picture).
Create a POI category (e.g. “Walking Tours”) and connect the route POIs you’ve create to the POI category.
How to maintain and remove Guided Paths:
Update a Guided Path
Click on the POI polygon
Change the outline of the polygon in case it should be tweaked.
Change the colour, description, picture.
Remove a Guided Path
Click on the POI polygon
Click the three dots in the upper right corner and click “Delete POI”.
Temporarily hide a Guided Path
Click on the POI polygon
Remove the colour
Make the POI un-clickable
Remove the POI type from it
Additional Resources:
Please contact support@mazemap.com in case you have any questions.
Real-world examples.
Sunnaas Hospital Heritage Tour: https://link.mazemap.com/NvASHpwK
Sunnaas Hospital Floor navigation lines: https://link.mazemap.com/YekceFHK
Örebro University Walk and Talk: https://link.mazemap.com/qmUHyRDY
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