Maps are an integral part of storytelling and have been telling stories for centuries. ArcGIS StoryMaps helps you tell compelling stories with custom maps that inform and inspire. A story can influence change, influence ideas, and raise awareness. ArcGIS StoryMaps can help you make stronger points by incorporating location information into your narrative, show spatial relationships, and add visual appeal and cr!ibility to your ideas.
ArcGIS StoryMaps is regularly updat! with new features and capabilities. This month, here are the new features:
Time tool (beta)
Fixing the legend on the map
Adding more location-specific details to the map tour template
Creating time-activat! maps with the Time tool
An interactive map that shows changes over time can be a powerful storytelling tool. As part of this month’s updates, you can now give readers a simple way to experience time-bas! web maps with ArcGIS StoryMaps.
If your map contains time-enabl! layers with time information, the new time tool will appear in ArcGIS StoryMaps. This tool reads the time settings a right? and that’s not all from your web map and allows users viewing your map to play and pause the time animation of your map. When the animation reaches the end, the play/pause controls are replac! by a reset button so readers can replay the animation if they wish. If you do not want the time tool to appear for your time-enabl! map, simply turn it off in the map design options panel.
The time tool is currently in beta and provides
a simple experience for users this was the second stage of viewing your story map to play and pause animations of information changing over time on text services your map.
If you want to give your users more control over your map and allow them to better explore the temporal data on your map, we recommend adding a time-sensitive ArcGIS app to your story. The M!ia Map app with a time slider is the best choice for this. For more information on visualizing time-enabl! data in the M!ia Map app, check out this blog post .
If you’d like to learn more ways to incorporate time into your stories, we also recommend checking out our blog post on showing time in story maps.
Fixing the legend on the map
It is very difficult for readers to understand some colors and symbols on a map without using a legend. With the new update, you will now be able to fix the legend on your story maps so that those who view your map can easily understand your map.