Story maps#
Story maps are a simple yet powerful tool to inform, engage, and inspire your audience with any story you may want to tell. Story maps are an effective way to harness the power of maps and geo-spatial visualization, bring data to life and make stories often hidden in data accessible to both the wider public or to a targeted audience including policy makers.
A story map is a combination of a narrative, photos, and videos with interactive maps. The MapX story map engine allows publishers of the platform to independently build story maps without any GIS or programming skills. Story maps can cover a wide variety of subjects and tell any type of story.
This chapter aims to provide MapX users with technical guidance on how to build a successful story map that is both interesting and informative. Furthermore, it includes the step-by-step procedure to build a story map.