App Templates

Story Map Tour℠

Present a set of photos or videos along with captions, linked to an interactive map. It's ideal for walking tours or any sequence of places you’d like your readers to follow. Choose between three different layout options, including a new Side Panel layout that makes your beautiful photos fill most of the display.

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Story Map Journal℠

Create an in-depth narrative organized into sections. As readers scroll through the sections in your Map Journal they see the content associated with each section, such as a map, 3D scene, image, video, etc. Narrative text and images can be displayed in a side panel, or in a floating panel that appears on top of your 'main stage' content.

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Story Map Cascade℠

Create a visually and editorially engaging full-screen scrolling experience for your audience blending narrative text, maps, 3D scenes, images, videos, etc. Sections containing text and in-line media can be interspersed with 'immersive' sections that fill the display, including map animations and transition effects.

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Story Map Series℠

Present a series of maps that your readers can easily browse and switch between using tabs, numbered bullets, or our expandable 'side accordion' control. There's an optional description panel for presenting narrative text and other content associated with each map. In addition to maps, you can present images, videos and other embedded web content, such as other web apps and even other Story Maps!

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Story Map Shortlist℠

Present a large number of places organized into tabs based on themes, for example, food, hotels, and attractions. As your readers navigate around the map, the tabs update to show them just the places in their current map extent.

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Story Map Swipe and Spyglass℠

Let your readers compare two maps by simply swiping back and forth, or by peering through one map to see another with our 'Spyglass' tool. You can present two different maps, or enable readers to compare different layers in the same map. A Swipe Series option lets you present multiple map locations that your readers can choose between using tabs.

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Story Map Basic℠

Present a map via a very simple 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.

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Story Maps Labs applications are custom, one-off story maps created by the Esri Story Maps team for particular projects. These story maps aren't based on the Story Map app templates listed above. Instead, we develop them from scratch to experiment with new approaches, and prototype new designs and layouts that we can turn into new templates and options for the storytelling community. The Story Map app templates listed above all started off as designs from the Story Maps Labs.

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