Explore Examples

Find inspiration from well-designed storymaps

StoryMaps are a creative, web-based platform for telling stories. They are inherently interactive, allowing users to scroll, click, and explore different media elements. StoryMaps aren’t just about maps… you can also include photos, videos, sound recordings, embedded websites and YouTube videos, etc.

Take a few minutes to explore some of these examples, paying attention to how the storytellers used different media to capture your attention:

Archaeology

• Memorializing Connectivity: Ostia Antica’s Piazza Delle Corporazioni

Digital Humanities

• Story Maps and the Digital Humanities: A collection of Story Maps about history, culture, literature, and the arts

Environmental Resources

• Caribou of the Boreal: Protecting and recovering one of Canada’s most iconic species
• Embattled Borderlands: Will the border wall strike a fatal blow to one of the most imperiled wild regions in North America?
• (Farm) Animal Planet: A look at livestock production around the world

Geology/Geosciences

• The Bare Earth: How lidar in Washington State exposes geology and natural hazards

Historical Maps

• Pancakes & Silver: Historic Map Reading, Data Extraction, and 3D Visualization