Would you like to know how to transform a
google map to an Illustrator or AutoCAD location plan Well you are in the right video What will you need? You will need internet, illustrator and autoCAD as tools Don't forget to subscribe to the Feel
Like an Architect channel for more tutorials We go with the intro and we start with the
video! First step, open the page of
map style Once opened we will create a new style click create a style on the left side we will have the editor to edit our map we will look for the location that interests us and once here we will start editing these are the basic settings however we have more options here and we have some styles already made the first thing we would have to do would be to remove the Labels which are all the texts that appear on the map this to be able to create a location plan and we only add the texts of
interest so that in this way the icons and texts do not overlap on the roads that we are interested in converting into vectors we click on more options and
one of the important things to do here, is that the roads don´t have contours, if not a single color like the yellow road we have for this we are going to road and this is an important step pay attention Highway, which would be like the main road is the yellow one we have here we have the arterial as secondary and the local that would be the smallest roads; in geometry we have Fill and Stroke, in Fill we select some color and in Stroke, Hidden, so they don't have
no contour then in arterial we select some filler and finally in local we also select some filling and we make sure that don't have any
contour, we click on expand the map and here we can preview the map Another important point is that if our map is going to be closer the buildings appear in some parts and some on the way to delete this we are going to go to the Landscape part and in human-made we are going to
put hidden This way they are removed. In that same section we can
remove the rivers or green areas, however, these are going to
keep, an important point here, is that the colors that we are going to use in the three roads contrast, for example, a yellow, a turquoise and a gray and the background is a light color. In this case it is a very light gray or we can change it to white but try not to be a dark background because it won't help us much at the time of making it to location plain. Once this is done we finish and this text appears here, You can copy this text and save it in a note and they can import it in the
Web page so they don't have to create a style every time they’re going to create a map in the description of this video
I will leave this code in case you want to use it on the page, After having the style we will go to full screen, we will create a screenshot omitting the part of the buttons
above and below along with the text. Apart of the map style with google page there is a page that is also
call snazzy maps they can also use it to create different types of maps however both work perfectly is a matter of choice. The second step is to open illustrator once in illustrator we will have to add the image of which we made screenshot I will also leave this image in the video description in case you want to practice with it pressing shift we will scale it in this case I create a new letter size document in horizontal format and added the image once we have the image inside the sheet let's vectorize the image when we have added an image in illustrator these options appear which is to vectorize the image in this case we will use the option of six colors and begins to vectorize the image is already vectorized however we are going to make some changes by clicking on this icon we have here what is trace image here the paths appear the anchors and
the colors we have in the picture if you look it comes perfect to use six colors since we have six colors in the image the turquoise, the yellow, the gray, what would be the bottom, the green and if the river comes out it would also be the river however here we already left so six colors is perfectly let's increase where it says corners to 100% in this way it creates less rounded and more rectangular corners in terms of paths we will lower it up to 20% so you have fewer paths in this way we will have a more simplified image and that will have fewer vectors which will help us make it easier to handle in autocad or in illustrator let's select the option to ignore white in this case if the background is slightly white, This is the reason I told them not to change the background to a dark color if not they leave it in a white or light color if you look now it was that the background what eft totally white what you are doing here is removing all that stuffing and leaving it with nothing which helps us to have absolutely nothing and only vectors are the roads and don't vectorize the backgrounds which also simplify the image much more paths, anchors and colors have gone down, it should be mentioned that screenshot it has to be of the best resolution
possible That's why we enlarge to full screen at the time of making the screenshot If your screen is of good resolution, it will help the vector to be better. From this map style page we can only obtain the image by making screenshot from Snazzy maps we can save the image but only allows us to save it 1000 x 1000 pixels I think it allows us to save in best resolution However, I think we have to subscribe to a payment method. Once we have these values we will click on expand In this way, the advantage of something being a vector is that it is a vector so that don´t lose resolution when we zoom in that's how illustrator works and that's how autocad works too now we can add
black outline and we can give you the thickness, in this case you we will give .5 now if you look it has a black outline all our roads we select again and everything is in a group right now We are going to click here to eliminate all the colors we have in the roads. having put different colors makes the main roads of the secondary ones do not interconnect with each other but rather are divided by a line and this one superimposed the most important path on the top I click outside and practically we would have the map as you could see in a pdf after exporting it in autoCAD however, if we are going to want to add
some hatch or some texts in our location plan It is important that we pass
to autocad and we can also add it in our layout where will we have the plane
of our construction and simply we are adding the plane to locate our project we will click on file, export, export as and here we will have the
autocad drawing option (dwg) We export in the folder that we
interest here we change it to centimeters and click ok, open the file of
autoCAD that we import this alert appears we click on
yes and continue to open the dwg file and as you can see we already have the
map is a group so if we want it edit we will have to execute the explode command, in this way the elements are already separated and we can add a hatch to some part of interest assuming this is where we have the desired construction and we can add the texts that we
interest, to later create a layout for later in our layout add the
plane of the area of interest and add the texts we want in this case here I have a layout to accommodate plans either facades, plants, cuts with your data chart here I have a model viewport
and in this case I can look for what the plane is and place it
this way this way is a lot faster create a sketch more if we are going to add enough streets what many did before was to add an image which was the same image from which one took screenshot in
google maps and put one to trace it in Autocad Quick true, I bet you
will save much more time and this is one of the methods that I use, if someone has a better or faster method is welcome in the comments since what we always look for in our channel is to try to help each other, also for those who are going to make a presentation of a project and they don't want to look as technical as in Autocad we already have here what is the
location plan in illustrator which we can also edit right here and we can add colors, some gradient, some fill, marking our area of interest and we can also add texts without the need to draw the map this way we get the location plane automatically and we can edit what we are interested in saving us a lot of time,
practically the time we will use in drawing the location plan will be null and more
well we can use it in editing what interests us
