Want to make a map that will help you share the stories being uncovered through your research and make them accessible to a broader audience? Want to give your students an opportunity to engage with spatial thinking and work on an exciting digital project? ArcGIS StoryMaps allows you to weave an inspiring and interactive narrative by combining text, maps, and multimedia content – photos, videos, and audio – to communicate information through engaging and user-friendly web mapping applications.

ArcGIS StoryMaps timeline block! This block provides a fun and intuitive way to add chronological visualizations to your story in a more flexible and dynamic presentation than static images or purely text-based lists can offer.

Storytellers can enter up to 20 “events” in a vertical chain, and can accompany each event with an image, if desired. You can also add a spacer in between events if you want to indicate that a particular lapse in time is longer relative to others.

Or Create a Timeline in Maps

An ArcGIS web map is an interactive display of geographic information that you can use to tell stories and answer questions. For example, you may find or create a map that addresses the question, How many people in the United States live within a reasonable walk or drive to a supermarket? This map might have layers showing which neighborhoods are within a 10-minute drive or 1-mile walk to a supermarket, and for context, the map would have a topographic basemap that includes cities, roads, and buildings overlaid on land cover and shaded relief imagery.

ArcGIS Web AppBuilder is an intuitive what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) application that allows you to build web apps without writing a single line of code. It includes tools to configure fully featured HTML apps. As you add your map and tools, you can see them in the app and use them right away.