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Launch a Story Map Journal at a specific section
Story Map Journal is a very popular and versatile story map template, ideal for when you want to combine text with maps and other media. Examples include Mountains of Fire, Atlas for a Changing Planet,...
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Launch a Story Map Series at a specific entry
Story Map Series is a very useful story map template, ideal for presenting a series of maps and media sequentially using several different layout options: tabs, numbered bullets, or an expandable side...
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Ten ways to improve your chances of winning the Esri Storytelling With Maps...
The Esri Storytelling with Maps Contest is open for entries. Here are some quick tips from the Esri Story Maps team for how to make the best impression with your story map, not just with the contest...
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Showing Time in Story Maps
Time is a theme that appears in many stories. For instance, some interesting story maps that include time show tracking the spread of diseases like Zika or white nose syndrome (which affects bats),...
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Troubleshooting embedded apps and websites in Story Maps
Story Maps have become a very useful and engaging communication tool for many organizations. One of the reasons for this is that Story Maps can contain many types of rich, interactive content like web...
View ArticleAn Important Message About Web Security and Story Maps
Attention Story Map Authors: Please read this important message as it may require you to take action and change how you build story maps. When you make a story map, you expect it to work and that your...
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Protecting Your Published Story Maps
When you share and promote a story map with the public you want to make sure it stays up and running as long as you intend it to be available. But accidents happen, there’s always a small possibility...
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Story Maps at the 2017 Esri User Conference
In about a month, many of you will be making the trip to San Diego for the 2017 Esri User Conference. The Story Maps Team will be at the UC Expo and presenting many sessions and workshops, and we’re...
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What’s New in Story Maps (June 2017)
Esri Story Maps let you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content, making it easy to harness the power of maps and geography to tell your story. ArcGIS Online was...
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Optimize a Cascade Story for Mobile Readers
There’s a new feature in Story Map Cascade for the June 2017 release that helps you improve your story maps for mobile readers. You can now add alternate images that are shown on mobile devices in...
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Producing the “Big Dams” Story Map
Last week the Esri story maps team published “Big Dams: Boon or Bane?” featuring a gallery of the world’s largest dams. Although our team’s main role is to create and update Story Map apps for the...
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Producing a Story Map in Multiple Languages
Authors sometimes need to publish a story map in more than one language to effectively reach everyone in their intended audience. For example, employees of governments with two official languages may...
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Fast display of beautiful symbology in ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Pro allows you to create beautiful maps with complex and interesting symbology! Here are some tips for maximizing the display performance of your maps and data in ArcGIS Online. 1) Publish...
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Story Maps Make Great Travelogues
In the summer of 2017 Lauren Herbine, a student at the College of William and Mary, set off from New Jersey on a cross-country road trip. Almost eight decades earlier, her grandfather had mounted a...
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The Making of “Bombing Missions of the Vietnam War”
Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States and its allies dropped over 7.5 million tons of bombs on Southeast Asia. But until recently, few people outside the U.S. military really knew where...
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The Making of “The Two Koreas”
Public interest in North Korea is at an all-time high (or, to borrow a term from the ballistic missile lexicon, apogee), thanks in large part to the continuous flow of colorful, but frightfully...
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Expand What You Know: App Builders
You’ve heard it before. You can build web apps without doing any coding. You don’t have to be a developer. You don’t have to be a designer. You don’t even have to be a map expert. So what do you need...
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Oral History Mapping with ArcGIS Online
This is a guest post by Sam Raby. A freelance mapmaker, Sam created Placing Oral Histories under contract with the Esri Story Maps team. My first attempt at creating an “oral history map” was with a...
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Making the “New UNESCO World Heritage Sites” Story Map
What are the most culturally, historically, and scientifically significant places on earth? It’s a difficult, if not impossible, question to answer. But for the past 45 years, the United Nations...
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Making “The Life and Works of Dr. Martin Luther King” Story Map
In recognition of the theme of the 2017 Geography Awareness Week—the geography of civil rights movements—and because I wanted to further experiment with what our Story Maps team calls...
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