1. Tips and Tricks for Creating Story Maps
Leslie Zolman

2. storyboard What story do you want to tell? Purpose & goal of story
audience

3. simplify How can you make it clear and simple?
Only include details to support the narrative

4. elements What elements are needed to tell the story? Data Video Photos
Audio
Links
GIS – not always the focus

5. Story map format Pick a format that will tell your story best
Maybe you want to embed a second or third story map in your story map
Hard to change formats later

6. iterative
Review your storyboard keeping in mind your story map format and map elements you acquired

7. Plan ahead for pop-ups
Refine names, data, links and field aliases before publishing to ago

8. Use one web map Try to put everything you need into one web
better response time for user since only one map has to load

9. Use one web map Turn on and off layers as needed in the story map
Zoom to different areas of interest
It will look and feel like multiple maps

10. Add apps to the story map
Match colors
Avoid titles
Use stripped down apps
Provide directions on how to use apps

11. Pop-Ups Don’t use default pop-up table Use paragraph formatting
Customize with html
Make pop-ups Informative but brief

12. Plan ahead During storyboarding determine pop-up layout
Add photos, links, text and other needed elements into data before publishing to ago!

13. Don’t forget
a custom thumbnail
Metadata
Share your map

14. Know when and how updates will affect your story map

15. Check the status of map content
gis.com/en/my- stories/

16. Check images

17. Check webpages

18. Thank you