Introduction to Create a guide to an Area

In these lessons, you will build an interactive guide to an area you've visited or would like to visit.

Creating a guide to an area is an effective way to highlight locations.

It is also an opportunity to share an area that is meaningful to you.

In your area guide, you might describe your... favorite hometown attractions, places you would like to visit, local historic sites, or places that celebrate your culture.

Digital guides offer current information about a place you might be familiar with or visit.

For example, travel websites and apps include: recommendations, information about points of interest, photos, and personal observations from people who have visited an area.

Your guide will have all this information and more.

To make your guide, you will: Choose an area, set up a spreadsheet to organize information, add locations, provide recommendations and a rating scale, and add interactive images and a customized map.

These lessons use Google Sheets, Google Apps Script, and Google Maps, but you could apply these skills and concepts in most other spreadsheet, coding, and mapping applications.

Now, it's your turn: Move on to begin building an interactive guide to an area in Google Sheets.