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Resources for Narrative Mapping

At a glance,

  • what it is; useful for xyz
  • difficulty/learning curve
  • access/ open source or proprietary for all, give
  • examples (more than in determine output section?)

Resources

  • links to download tool
  • links to task specific plugins
  • links to tutorials and demos
Table of contents

Google Earth

Google Earth very low barrier, easy to make story, free if you have gmail account. quick to make. Other considerations?

no prior knowledge needed - very easy to put together a map

Resources for working with Google earth

Google Earth Tour Builder

Creating a Narrated Tour in Google Earth Desktop


Esri ArcGIS Storymaps

Esri ArcGIS Storymaps –> give pros and cons, resources to learn, examples. Be sure to differentiate Esri ArcGIS Storymaps and StoryMaps (basically like a glorified social media story)

  • Difficulty: Medium

Storymaps Advantages ⇡

  • straightforward to learn, out of the box templates
  • clean, aesthetic, out-of-the box visuals
  • drag and drop format
  • can add multimedia, including images, audio, maps (static and dynamic), and embed videos
  • You have to make all the maps and graphics yourself - storymaps is like the aesthetic containter that collages your inputs together

Storymaps Disadvantages ⇣

  • proprietary, meaning
  • licensing - need account, licensing can be a hastle and you’ll only have editing access so long as you have an account. Only those with AGOL/storymaps accounts can collaborate on a storymap with you.

Resources for working with ArcGIS Storymaps

Examples


Knightlab StoryMap

knightlab StoryMap Difficulty: Medium-High Open Source Knightlab Storymaps JS open source displaying georeferenced map on knightlab here

can also make a timeline

Knightlab StoryMap Advantages ⇡

Knightlab StoryMap Disadvantages ⇣

Resources for working with Knightlab StoryMap

Example Kightlab StoryMaps


TimeMapper

TimeMapper Difficulty: Open Source

Timemapper

More for timelines with auxiliary map to the side “TimeMapper is an open-source project of Open Knowledge Foundation Labs”

Examples

Resources


ODYSSEY ?

open source - developed by CartoDB -link