Google My Maps of Widewater State Park

Follow the link below to view the Google My Map of Widewater State Park.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OK5Etp2CMX6N_-nwOw7oy3fyz6I&usp=sharing

The map depicts the location of the sensitive ecosystems, interesting wildlife sightings, and other interesting biodiversity features.

  I found this mapping tool to be very easy to use whether you have experience with cartography or not.  Establishing the extent of the map was easy and further creating the points and polygons to depict the unique features of the park were easy too.  Editing the features, colors, and descriptions was simply done and Google My Maps prompted those edits for the cartographer.  I found that creating features was limited in the information you could display.  You could attach or link images to the feature, but that can also be done in ArcGIS Online.  I liked that you could type a brief description and the acreage of the polygon was automatically calculated.  The one issue I found with Google My Maps is that I could not import any of my files from ArcGIS.  My ArcGIS was unfortunately not working due to problems with my works server and my personal computer is a Mac.  Due to this I was unable to open ArcGIS desktop to re save my shapefiles to be compatible with Google My Maps.  I believe if I could have opened my files in ArcGIS then I could have saved them in another format to upload into My Maps.  Despite this hurtle I was still able to get a great deal of information onto the map, but not quite as much as I was able to load onto ArcGIS Online.
  Google My Maps is equally well laid out for the map user.  The tools are bright bold colors and easily located.  The functionality of the tools for the user are also very simple.