Digital Storytelling With StoryMaps

Stories are powerful; they can advocate for change, influence opinion, and create awareness. ArcGIS StoryMaps are web-based applications that allow you to tell your story by integrating maps, data, pictures, videos, and other media in one place. StoryMaps are my favorite ArcGIS product due to their versatility and ability to augment storytelling through the addition […]

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ArcGIS ideas – Sharing Code with a Story Map

There’s no question that Story Maps and the Story Map templates are valuable and useful for many things. There are crowd-sourced story maps, some are strictly map based, some share news and event information, others are used to gather crowd-sourced information, and then some stories walk you through a visual experience told through photos and […]

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Awesome Story Maps – Geography Helps Understand Where Will Amazon Locate HQ2 and Why?

In College I majored in urban geography. I was totally enthralled with urban planning related matters, architecture, and cities, in particular, how cities grew and the factors that drove people to urban centers. Naturally, as a geographer, it made sense that these things would all, in concert, affect how businesses grew and in particular where […]

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Celebrating Canada’s 150th Birthday with Canadian Themed ArcGIS Online resources

This year, on July 1, Canada will celebrate her 150th birthday (aka. Canada’s sesquicentennial birthday) and what better way to re-live the past and take a historic, educational journey spanning 150 years than with maps, data, infographics, data visualizations, and story maps? Luckily, our own marketing guy (@gletham) hails from the Great White North and […]

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