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Scribble Maps Reviews
Pros
We love how good and updated the maps are, we love that you can zoon in and define a small are without real efford.
Scribble maps is a great product and an exceptional value it is the main mapping software i use now and have recommended to others because of its ease of use.
Excellent, we appreciate the product because of its ease of use and reasonable pricing for what we use it for.
I am not particularly tech savvy so I required some extra attention, and [SENSITIVE CONTENT] was happy to do so. A terrific support experience.
Cons
That we can no do 3D prints of the maps and colors are to little.
I find it difficult to use the add a photograph feature.
Some of the features are buried in the menu. Also, student had difficulty transitioning from the select tool to other tools and back.
I use this for utility mapping and some utilities a signal is lost. Typically, I would put an "x" on the map where the utility wouldn't trace anymore.
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"Extremely Satisfied Customer"
Overall: My initial rating of this program would have been an 8 out of ten due to "bugs" I had encountered while using program. However, the incredibly detailed customer service I received revealed most of those "bugs" to be user error, while the remaining ones were reacted to excitedly as an opportunity to improve the interface. This experience absolutely elevated my rating of scribble maps to a 10.
Pros: The first thing that stands out about scribble maps is that it's the first program I've used in the past 10 years that does everything I wished it would right out of the box (and that's saying something considering the ridiculous complexity of the maps I'm building). While it takes a bit of time to learn all of the tools, one you do Scribble maps makes you feel like a bit of a wizard with just what you can produce. I also really appreciate the very broad range of customization and data-tethering of the lines and markers. There's hundreds of styles to choose from of infinite sizes and colors, and all of it can be imbued with filterable attributes that make it easy to simplify a complex picture into something more easy to digest. Lastly, the customer service is really top notch. The level of detail they put in to their responses to my questions was truly impressive.
Cons: There are some inconsistencies in convention in some of the tools (i.e. the process to edit the size of a line is different then the process to edit the size of a marker) such that the user needs to put a little more effort into learning the interface. However once learned the program is as effective as you could wish for.
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"My eight (8) months experience with Scribblemap"
Overall: The App had really help with data visualization and also help my company to delineate clearly the boundary of our distributors. This is currently saving us a lot. Thanks to scribble map, we are now able to optimize the sales reps' route.
Pros: Ability to accept more than 50k geocodes
Cons: The inability of the automatic optimization
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"Why SCribble"
Overall: We love how good and updated the maps are, we love that you can zoon in and define a small are without real efford
Pros: That you have freedom to draw over a selected area and color code the selected areas for easy identification there of. Would love to have more functions and 3D views
Cons: That we can no do 3D prints of the maps and colors are to little
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"Scribble Maps succeeds when QGIS crashes!"
Overall: Truly astounded at how much easier, more capable, and performant it is vs QGIS. Typically you'd expect a desktop app like QGIS to perform better than a cloud-based offering, however the opposite is true with Scribble Maps. It easily handled tasks that crash QGIS!
Pros: Easy of use, performance, ability to handle tasks that crash QGIS!
Cons: This could be a positive for some, but the Photoshop-like UI took a bit of getting used to for me.
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"Rahul's review"
Overall: Really good, I've used frequently for a long time. It helps me plan out boundaries for businesses which is my primary use of it. My favorite feature is letting lines link up which makes it easier to draw prefectly on a map.
Pros: Very user friendly, the most accessible software to design and draw on maps. I also like being able to consult maps from my phone and laptop
Cons: The icons are ugly and could be better. There needs to be more detail on the maps. I sometimes have to have Google maps open on another tab to reference important locations such as train stations that aren't marked.
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"excelent product and a superb value "
Overall: Scribble maps is a great product and an exceptional value it is the main mapping software i use now and have recommended to others because of its ease of use.
Pros: Scriblemaps ease of use is invaluable i have used major mapping software that is readily available and scribblemaps was so easy to pick up and has saved countless hours of my time.
Cons: Its hard to find a least liked part of scribblemaps I have put it to the test and it constantly outperforms.
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"Mapping Properties"
Overall: Very positive. The team listens and works to add features that users demonstrate a need for in their mapping work. The maps are the best for planning and maintenance, program use and property visioning. This is a great product for a large property owners, camps, farms and other land owners.
Pros: The ability to pull in a background map, add layers and places with details and create printed maps and online maps with accuracy and detail makes this my go to mapping tool for our properties.
Cons: Some features are challenging and not always self evident.
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"Amazing software "
Pros: I use scribble maps daily to help plan routes for my team of drivers to deliver materials from a-b. Scribble maps makes route planning a breeze
Cons: Price could be a little cheaper but overall it’s worth it
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"Good Value. Great Support. Over-the-Moon Results!"
Overall: Really, the support is the heart of making a custom map for the uninitiated. In this case, it is the support professional assigned to my account. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]. "Support" doesn't properly describe. Easier to say "on call friendly expert" So valued is the ease of expert communication and spot on help. The purpose I conveyed for my Schools and Communities Guide was immediately understood. Mutual solution navigation guided the Maps to fruition. Instructions were extraordinarily helpful. Zoom sessions can be recorded and replayed. Very cool!
Pros: Layering and address importation is what I liked best about Scribble Maps. Custom maps for my online magazine has actually upgraded the value of my own product, enough to say, in fact, that my custom magazine business has been revolutionized. Truth. My sales price has doubled, from $20/month to $39.99/month. Customers are giving me all the credit, and it's a lot... and I like it, but it is the Map software driving this success. With the outstanding support, Scribble Maps is now easy to use after a brief learning curve.
Cons: There is nothing I do not like about the software. My firm's marketing target is straightforward. Scribble Maps hit the bulls eye, without burdening the process with unneeded functions.
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"Mountain Bike Event Mapping"
Overall: Love it. ScribbleMaps gives me the freedom to generate maps quickly and of high quality.
Pros: Ease of use. I can draw lines easily. I like that I can import and export nearly any format. This make collaboration and sharing very easy.
Cons: Not super impressed with the function of the image generation
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"Use Scriblee Maps y ha sido fantástico "
Overall: El Software me permitió en un principio generar mapas de manera gratuita con muchas funciones interesantes, sin embargo las opciones más atractivas requieren de un pago adicional, lo que en si es necesario porque son funciones más avanzadas, sin embargo la versión gratuita antes permitía descargar las capas elaboradas en KML, lo que menos me agrado fue que hayan eliminado esa alternativa, ya que el uso que le daba al Software era por su intuición y facilidad, su interface gráfica sencilla y a la vez muy útil a la hora de trazar rutas o delimitar zonas de control, luego exportaba las capas y las trasladaba al Arcgis o Qgiz para tener georreferenciado, sin embargo ahora ya no existe esa opción en la versión gratuita.
Pros: El Software es muy intuitivo, permite utilizarlo de manera sencilla, tiene un buen aspecto gráfico y las funciones de dibujar rutas, polígonos ha permitido en mi empresa generar mapas de límites para una mejor organización del trabajo y responsabilidad de cada Jefe de Área, es muy amigable su interface.
Cons: Actualmente en la versión gratuita ya no permite la exportación de mapas en formato KML, la cuál fue una función muy importante al momento de generar mapas, los mapas son fáciles de elaborar, requieren ir poco a poco familiarizándose con el Software sin embargo las últimas actualizaciones han restado está función, lo que ya no permite descargar capas en formato KML para su integración con Arcgis por ejemplo, algo que yo usaba muy comúnmente.
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"Excellent tool for site works planning."
Overall: Excellent, we appreciate the product because of its ease of use and reasonable pricing for what we use it for.
Pros: I appreciated how easy and quick it is to draw up basic construction maps.
Cons: Like any software there are minor glitches that need to be addressed. Some of these have been made through the years, and others we just learn to work around.
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"User-Friendly"
Overall: Guests really like to see where they are travelling to and it helps people understand how large the African continent really is!
Pros: Software is intuitive. Creating maps is quick and easy. Being able to duplicate existing maps saves time. Really like the storage feature for completed maps.
Cons: Once you have picked an icon, it would nice if that was visible to click on and reuse again in the same map. Or, If you are using paddles, that the numbers could automatically follow sequentially
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"Scribble review"
Overall: It has been very useful in our sales planning
Pros: Easy to use and understand so our sales are targeted
Cons: No cons yet the products works as advertised
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"An unconventional application"
Pros: As a researcher and author on military history, I needed a versatile product for creating maps that documented the history of military units during WWII. Scribble Maps proved to be a very intuitive, easy-to-use platform.
Cons: The search feature could be more robust. When trying to locate smaller towns/villages by name, the sometimes do not surface in search.
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"Great for mapping catchment area for non-profit busyinss"
Overall: Absolutely great experience with this product so far!
Pros: I use this software DAILY. SSES has consumers that are referred daily; it is our job to find in what catchment area the consumer lives and assign to the correct case manager. This process used to take me double the amount of time before ScribbleMaps was implemented. Before we were using paper maps, with colored pencil boarders!
Cons: Mapping out the original catchment area was probably my least favorite BUT that is not against the software. ScribbleMaps is very user friendly and easy to navigate.
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"Great Product"
Pros: Product is very user friendly and helps in our everyday needs of locating whats best for our clients needs.
Cons: We haven't found anything that we haven't liked with Scribble Maps as of yet.
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"Scribble reckew"
Pros: I most like that the amount of activities you can do is free
Cons: The price for premium is a bit high for the stuff you get.
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"Unique product"
Pros: The ability to create site layouts using native tools and image imports, being able to share layout without the need for the client to have special software to review
Cons: Nothing in particular, it fulfills my requirements generally
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"Scribble Maps"
Pros: It was easy to use and made it easy to keep organized.
Cons: Not being able to share the maps as easily as I would like.
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"Sribble Maps"
Overall: Great help in management of Area of Responsibility and understanding location of clients in relation to responders and managers
Pros: Attribute editing and visibility of attributes in markers
Cons: Not at this time, I'm still learning and haven't yet used it to its full potential with the existing tools/capabilities
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"Awesome"
Overall: It is very useful. I use it nearly every day.
Pros: Ease of use, very user friendly. Very functional.
Cons: I cannot think of anything at this time.
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"Good website "
Overall: 8/10 would recommend
Pros: Easy to use, lots of cool features. I like the search feature a lot
Cons: I would like to be able to copy and paste in the free version.
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"Scribble Maps for Blogs"
Pros: Easy to use to draw future routes and locations of places of interest.
Cons: I find it difficult to use the add a photograph feature
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"Successful route planning "
Overall: Once I learned it’s idiosyncrasies, it was a pleasure to use.
Pros: There are endless possibilities for color coding and adding customized reference points and labels. Very helpful suggestions are provided when adding a location to the map,
Cons: If you want to label a location, you are not offered a selection of your previous customized colors and formats.
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