Putting Your Research on the Map with ArcGIS Story Maps

"The Story Map Basic℠ app template is a simple map viewer with a minimalist user interface. Apart from the title bar and an optional legend, the map fills the screen. Use this app to let your map speak for itself. Your users can click features on the map to get more information in pop-ups."

"The Story Map Cascade℠ app template lets you combine narrative text with maps, images, and multimedia content in an engaging, full-screen scrolling experience. In a Cascade story, sections containing text and in-line media can be interspersed with "immersive" sections that fill the screen with your maps, 3D scenes, images, and videos. Cascade is ideal for making compelling, in-depth stories that are very easy for people to navigate."

The Story Map Journal℠ app template is ideal when you want to combine narrative text with maps and other content. A Map Journal contains entries, called sections, that your readers can simply scroll through. Each section in a Map Journal has an associated map, image, video or web page. 'Story actions' can also be defined in the narrative text so that, for example, clicking a word automatically zooms the section's map to a particular location.

The Story Map Series℠ app template lets you present a series of maps via tabs, numbered bullets, or our expandable 'side accordion' control. In addition to maps, you can also include images, video and web content in your Story Map Series to tell your story and engage your audience. For example the first tab in a tabbed Map Series could be a compelling photo that sets the scene. 'Story actions' can also be defined in the narrative text so that, for example, clicking a word automatically zooms a tab's map to a particular location.

The Story Map Shortlist℠ app template lets you organize points of interest into tabs that make it fun for users to explore what's in an area. Your users can click on the places either in the tabs or on the map to find out about them. The tabs automatically update as users navigate around the map to show them what's interesting in their current map extent.

"The Story Map Tour℠ app template is ideal when you want to present a linear, place-based narrative featuring images or videos. Each 'story point' in the tour narrative is geo-located. Your readers can click sequentially through the tour. They can also browse by interacting with the map, or using an optional thumbnail carousel."