Holidays bring joy, smiles, and a sense of community to people around the world. During these festive seasons, cities, local businesses, and community groups often organize celebratory events that bring people together. From holiday sales and candle lightings to tree displays, neighborhood light tours, and festive concerts, these activities create a vibrant atmosphere for all to enjoy.
Imagine the convenience for event planners if they could plot all seasonal and holiday events on a single, interactive map. This would allow residents to easily discover, share, and participate in local festivities. With Mapme, community leaders and residents alike can showcase their holiday spirit by planning, promoting, and attending various seasonal activities – all from one central platform.
By utilizing Mapme, communities can foster a stronger sense of connection and make their holiday celebrations more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.
Christmas Map Ideas
Create a Nativity Story Neighborhood Walk that highlights important parts of holiday stories and tales while connecting citizens with their community.
Create a Christmas Lights Locator that pins various homes with notable decorations and holiday spirit! Consider adding a drawn route to optimize the walk for Christmas celebrators.
Halloween Map Ideas
Create a Trick or Treat Route to maximize the amount of candies children can collect and of haunted houses Halloween celebrators can visit!
Easter Map Ideas
Create an Easter Egg Hunt map to show spots along a route where members of the community can go egg hunting.
Gift Guide Map Ideas
Create a Gift Guide map to highlight recommended stores for holiday gifts and help gift-givers to support local businesses! Consider adding details about the store, hours of operation, website, types of gifts, and more.
Best Practices for Seasonal/Holiday Maps
Images, Videos, and Color
- Bring your interactive map to life with photos and videos (for example, include holiday-related photographs)
- Be sure to use seasonal colors to make the map pop
Categories
- Use categories (holiday, season, type of activity, etc.) that allow your visitors to easily filter in order to find exactly the information they’re looking for
Events
- Highlight businesses offering special promotions or sales
- Showcase the variety of holiday-related events happening in your community
Calls-to-action
- Help activate the holiday spirit by showcasing opportunities to give back to the community
Directions
- Add direction links
- Show visitors’ locations live on the map so they can see what’s nearby and easily navigate to their desired destination
Share your map
Draw in a larger audience by featuring your downtown map on your city’s website, Facebook, and other social media pages. Go one step further by including a QR code on brochures or poster ads
How to use Mapme to create seasonal and holiday Maps?
Mapme makes it easy to create interactive seasonal and holiday maps. No coding or technical skills are needed.
For each location, you can include a description, images, audio, and videos.
You can also easily draw a route to guide visitors through the different locations.
And of course, you can easily embed the map on your website and share it via social media.