[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floor Plan - Map - Drawing Software

[Benjamin Kalish]

I made the "floor plans" that we include on our library's website and in
handouts using Inkscape <https://inkscape.org/en/>.

https://forbeslibrary.org/info/floor-plans/

Benjamin Kalish
Forbes Library / 413-587-1012 / bkalish at forbeslibrary.org

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On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Jeff Klapes <klapes at noblenet.org> wrote:

> Hi Jeff - It's not free, but very inexpensive: We've been using a
> WordPress plugin called DrawAttention (https://wpdrawattention.com/) and
> it's very easy to use. I think we paid $75 for the full version, and a
> slightly smaller annual maintenance fee.
>
> We're currently using it only on our web site, but we plan to use it in
> the way you describe as soon as our system activates a feature that makes
> copy locations in the OPAC into live links. Then we'll be able to link
> directly to maps that can direct patrons to that location in the building.
>
> http://www.wakefieldlibrary.org/building-floor-plans/
>
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> I'm currently reading "The children of Henry VIII" by Alison Weir,
> and I'm halfway through "Ο Χάρι Πότερ και το κύπελλο της φωτιάς" by Τζ. Κ.
> Ρόουλινγκ.
>
>
>
>
> On 7/9/2018 12:54 PM, jeff haskell wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to the list.
>>
>> I'm interested in drawing software so patrons and new staff,
>> volunteers and student interns can find materials on shelves easily
>> and quickly.
>>
>> Ex. one set of shelves to the far left of the circulation desk would
>> be labeled Fiction. Then the next set of shelves named Mystery in the
>> shelves bay to the right of the Fiction shelves bay and then to the
>> right of that the shelves Bay for Supernatural.
>>
>> This would be a floor plan so a patron could walk around the library
>> and look at this floor plan map and know where Fiction is - where
>> Mystery is, Biography, etc. for every collection throughout the
>> library.
>>
>> If I sat with an illustrator they could probably draw it all up in
>> about 20-30 minutes and I would just scan what they drew and have a
>> map (crude compared to a 3D) but enough so a patron could find items.
>>
>> But, is there any *free* software which could accomplish that?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>
>
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