When it comes to transportation and orientation, it is important that the visuals and texts are clear and understandable when people use city signs and city maps to get information due to differences in cultural practices. It guides people to find the desired point through city maps, visuals and typography. From this point of view, urban transportation becomes easier by reading maps and signboards. Today, the environmental graphic design requirement is related to the existence of architectural structures, the complexity of life, the identity of spaces, the restoration of buildings, the increase in city traffic, and the multi-faceted and multicultural society. Environmental graphic design, which directs transportation in the city, guides people who want to get from one point to another by looking at communication from a correct and reasonable angle. Graphic design; It makes the information desired to be reached understandable by conveying it in the short term through the information graphic. The universal graphical language provides the opportunity to use transportation and guidance systems by including everyone who has the ability to use them. In this study, tourism maps made by municipalities to contribute to tourism are discussed and the place and importance of graphic design in maps is explained by focusing on the symbols and orientation designs used in the maps. In this context, it is expected to create a model proposal for Eskişehir city, Odunpazarı Historical region.
Keywords: Map design, information graphic, infographic, tourism map