ArcGIS StoryMaps

Create inspiring, immersive stories by combining text, interactive maps, and other multimedia content. Publish and share your story with your organization or everyone around the world.

Add an existing map from your ArcGIS Online library from the block palette.

Express maps create clear and simple maps that might show a single location, a series of locations (with pop-ups), or even routes and areas. You can also add labels and arrows to maps.

Create extent, create with simple drawing tools, create pop-ups, and change colours and basemaps.

Sidecar is a scrolling, slide-based block that has three layout choices. The docked panel layout is optimal for longer narrative content, as it doesn’t overlap the media. The floating panel layout is ideal for visually striking media with short captions or descriptions. The slideshow layout is similar to the floating panel, but readers experience its slides laterally, rather than vertically, by manually clicking through them.

Text and extra media scroll vertically alongside your main media.

Text and extra media scroll overtop your main media, which fills the backrground.

Text and extra media are static over your main media; readers click or tap to advance slides horizontally.

Map tour allows you to plot points on a map and add media content and narrative text to those points that will display in either a side or floating panel, depending on your layout choice. There are two different types of map tour: Guided tour and Explorer tour.

Let’s you walk your audience through a set of places in sequential order. As readers scroll, the map's focus shifts from one tour stop to the next; accompanying text and media (photos and/or video) for that place are displayed alongside it.

The map focused option puts images and descriptions in floating panels, with the map occupying the remainder of the screen. The media focused layout puts map and text in a side panel, letting your images become the stars of the show. In both layouts the map is interactive, so readers can explore on their own if they wish.

Explorer tour offers a less linear experience. Points are plotted on the map, with a corresponding gallery of thumbnails in either list or grid form in the side panel. Clicking on any item on the map or in the side panel brings up its associated media and/or narrative information. The reader can browse the points in whatever order they like.

Swipe lets you compare two images or maps side by side. It's especially great for comparing related map themes.

This temporal component, allowing storytellers to construct a sequence of "events" that can each be accompanied by a description and an image.