How to create an event map

Creating an event map is often a requirement. Here are a few tips to easily create an event map to scale. Challenges on how to make your event more sustainable from a transportation, food, and solid waste management standpoint are also addressed.

Providing Sustainability Information at the Critical time to Change Audience Behavior

It's one thing to help event producers design more sustainable events by providing a tool that embodies sustainability know-how and helps them transfer this knowledge into the event they design, it is quite another challenge to leverage this capability to influence the event-goers behavior. We provide the Event-goer critical sustainability information at the critical time of decision making. EventMapStudio implements 2 strategies to modify the event-goers' behavior and drive them to more sustainable behavior.

Sustainability Behavior

Sustainability Audience Behavior

Sustainable Events

Event Layout Process

How to create an event map

How to Plan Event Solid Waste Management / Spatial Analysis

A solid Solid Waste Plan is an important tool towards a sustainable zero-waste event . A good rule of thumb from SWACO, the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio, is to have recycle, waste, and compost bins grouped together and placed every 30-40 yards. This is not easy to achieve manually. You can use the Spatial Analysis tool in EventMapStudio to efficiently layout your recycle bins.

How to Encourage Use of Public Transit at your Event / The Public Transit Wizard

Understanding the public transit landscape around your event is important for your event greening effort. Knowing where the public transit access points are will help you better layout your event in particular entrances and exits to leverage the mass transportation network.

How to Make an Interactive Eventgoer/Mobile Event Map

Automatically generate an interactive event map instead of purchasing and setting up an expensive customized event app map. You can update this map in real time to reflect last minutes changes.The resulting public event map can be integrated to the event's web site and access from desktops prior to the event, or from phones while at the event. It can also be included as an external link in most festival app software. The map can include logo/placement for vendors and sponsors, as well as links to vendors' pages including menus. The map an also include a Event Sustainability link to promote and educate the public about sustainable options and the event's sustainability work.

Perimeters, Paths, Utilities

Add fences, utility lines, and paths to your layout. EventMapStudio automatically keeps track of the length of the lines you draw, and includes the total length for each category of items in your report. To shorten a line, click on a blue dot while holding the alt key.

How to Create a Detailed Event Layout: Adding Map Items

See how to add a map item in 4 easy steps.

Select item type
Set size of item
Click the insert Item Button
Click where you want to insert the item on the map

You can also set any item property you want before you insert the item.

Groups & alignment

Learn about multi-select, groups, alignment, spacing, duplicate.

How to create an event map

Create your first event, get to the map location automagically and set your first stage.

The map is to scale. You can generate reports of all the items on the map and generate a custom mobile-friendly public map that can be displayed on your web site or in your event's mobile app and share the map with your vendors or anybody else needing to see it such as the police or fire departments.

How to create an event map