Flowchart or design software needed

[visagephoto]

I'm looking for a cheap software program for drawing simple (location) street maps i.e single road junctions or a single stretch of road complete with junctions etc. I don't need to produce anything too detailed, just simple street plans to accompany crime scene or RTA photographs.

 

[TotallySport]

google edraw

 

[drounding]

eDraw is very good but you might also consider Dia or Gimp which are free and might do also do hte job.
http://projects.gnome.org/dia/
http://www.gimp.org/features/

 

[AndrewUK]

Dia is a fantastic free flowchart package, but I wouldn't bother trying to use a flowchart package to draw a street map. I would use a graphics app instead. You may want to check out paint.net, never used it personally, but I hear it's very good. Gimp has been around for a while and is very good.

If you want the street map for a web page, then I would consider embedding google maps instead. Plus you can can embed their street view. Easily done, just use the link code at the top right when your at the location you want to embed. Then place that in your own web page.

 

[brownie]

I'm looking for a cheap software program for drawing simple (location) street maps i.e single road junctions or a single stretch of road complete with junctions etc. I don't need to produce anything too detailed, just simple street plans to accompany crime scene or RTA photographs.

I would use a CAD app, you'll be able to properly scale the drawing, there are many freeware ones out there.

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sour...aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=6099bc12b364fae0

 

[visagephoto]

Thanks for the suggestions so far, I'm still looking through some of the links supplied.

Just to clarify what I'm looking for, I want to draw 2D maps similar in detail to Google maps although normally only a single junction, or street/road showing layout of all relevant nearby streets, paths, junctions and roundabouts etc.

The ability to add some street furniture such as bus stops/shelters, CCTV cameras, PO boxes, bridges and maybe add some simple shapes to represent important buildings etc. would also be helpful.

I'm currently using DTP software, and while this is okay it can be time consuming and the results are maybe not as professional looking as I would like them to be.