Ben, Story Maps are based on apps that writers use to tell stories with images. In the journalist world, they call it "scrollytelling". If you google scrollytelling you can see visuals of what I mean. So ESRI has taken that scrollytelling concept of story telling and put it into their world of telling stories too only with MAPS, thus "Storymaps". It's a way to not just document data with a map, but add a story to your map with some feeling. However you do not need to have a map, you can use the software to tell your story using just images, video and text.
Thanks for watching :)! In this example i created the webmap in arcgis online using feature layers that were published using arcgis pro (arcmap can publish the layers if that's the only option). You do have the option to create a map in arcgis pro and share it to arcgis online as a webmap and then go from there. either way works
Is this the only way to start making a story map? What I mean is, is the web map necessary? Thanks so much! :)
you can use text, images and videos only if you want to, but the web maps are the elements that allow you to present your story
Ben, Story Maps are based on apps that writers use to tell stories with images. In the journalist world, they call it "scrollytelling". If you google scrollytelling you can see visuals of what I mean. So ESRI has taken that scrollytelling concept of story telling and put it into their world of telling stories too only with MAPS, thus "Storymaps". It's a way to not just document data with a map, but add a story to your map with some feeling. However you do not need to have a map, you can use the software to tell your story using just images, video and text.
Did you create a map first in ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro?
Thanks for watching :)! In this example i created the webmap in arcgis online using feature layers that were published using arcgis pro (arcmap can publish the layers if that's the only option). You do have the option to create a map in arcgis pro and share it to arcgis online as a webmap and then go from there. either way works