Felt is a brand new digital mapping software that I’ve featured a number of occasions within the final month as a result of I believe it’s incredible various to Google’s My Maps and the online model of Google Earth for creating customized maps. In reality, I prefer it a lot that I demonstrated it in my Best of the Web 2022 webinar. The subsequent day Felt despatched out an electronic mail asserting new base map choices.
The new base map choices on Felt.com embody a set of default maps you could decide from to use to your customized map. You can customise these base maps by turning a few of their options on or off. There’s additionally a brand new choice to customise the colour scheme of your base map on Felt. All of the brand new base map choices are demonstrated in my new video that’s embedded beneath.
Applications for Education
One of the explanations that I like Felt is that it’s far simpler for college kids to make use of to create customized maps than Google’s My Maps is to make use of for a similar objective. Felt contains extra, easy-to-use customization instruments than My Maps contains. For instance, college students can rapidly customise a map on Felt by choosing any of the information layers to have mechanically utilized after which use the drawing and highlighting instruments to annotate their maps. Watch the movies which are embedded beneath to study extra about how one can use Felt.