Learning from other's maps

[ThySpektre]

In WC3 I often learned by seeing something interetsing and looking at how it was accomplished in the World editor. Am I correct that in SC2, this is not possible unless you know the author and contact him/her to send you his/her map?

ThySpektre

 

[XzeaLL]

You can open a user made map by klicking File>Open>Log In

There you can search custom maps

But some of them are locked (same you can check if you publish your map)

 

[Adovid]

You can learn a lot by looking at the campaign maps. They are freely available in the editor without even having to use a mpq extractor.