Creating Travel Maps

Many book projects can benefit from a sense of place: the travel book filled with vacation photos, the family reunion book depicting your old stomping grounds, the wedding book with photos from the ski-slope ceremony and the tropical honeymoon. When creating books like these, consider giving your readers some context by adding travel maps.

Travel maps take advantage of the Places feature. But even if you haven’t taken the time to geotag your photos, you can still create travel maps; a handy pane lets you add places to a map even as you create your book.

Every theme in iPhoto provides for a travel map, but the largest variety of map designs is in the Travel themes. (Imagine that!) You’ll find options ranging from simple, full-page maps to small maps that accompany a full-page photo and some text.