The Story Map Tour is one of the more popular Esri story map templates. It’s been used for stories like The Weird and Wonderful Inland Empire, the Longmont Colorado Flood, Exploring Estuaries in Cornwall, England, and others.
A map tour consists of a series of photographs or videos that are placed at a specific location on the map. Photos and locations are numbered, and the tour guides the user through each of the locations sequentially. These are the tour stops*and each stop is referenced by its number, or index.
Using*Mapping Esri’s World, open the tour to view the locations on the map, thumbnails in the gallery, and the current tour photo for each location. When opened the map tour starts at the first location.
Taking a closer look you can see that the tour stop locations and photos are numbered and in sync, and increment as you advance the tour (you can also click any map location or thumbnail to move to a specific tour location).
Using the number we can share the map tour with others so that it opens at a specific tour point. The URL for the story map includes the application ID (appid) as shown below:
?appid=60cc21529d3b473383ec4dc8eb5ea53f
and (optionally) the web map ID (webmap):
&webmap=ffb8166ce33141bdb0e6b6
To go to a specific tour stop add &index=*at the end of the URL, where is the number of the tour point you want to start with.
For example, tour stop 16 features the Esri Learning Center. To open the map tour at this location add &index=16 to the end of the URL. To share the tour at this location copy and paste the URL into an email or use it in a link.
Click the image below to open the tour at this location and examine the URL in your browser:
For more information and to view other map stories visit the Story Maps website.
(Thanks to Rupert Essinger for contributions to this post)
A map tour consists of a series of photographs or videos that are placed at a specific location on the map. Photos and locations are numbered, and the tour guides the user through each of the locations sequentially. These are the tour stops*and each stop is referenced by its number, or index.
Using*Mapping Esri’s World, open the tour to view the locations on the map, thumbnails in the gallery, and the current tour photo for each location. When opened the map tour starts at the first location.
Taking a closer look you can see that the tour stop locations and photos are numbered and in sync, and increment as you advance the tour (you can also click any map location or thumbnail to move to a specific tour location).
Using the number we can share the map tour with others so that it opens at a specific tour point. The URL for the story map includes the application ID (appid) as shown below:
?appid=60cc21529d3b473383ec4dc8eb5ea53f
and (optionally) the web map ID (webmap):
&webmap=ffb8166ce33141bdb0e6b6
To go to a specific tour stop add &index=*at the end of the URL, where is the number of the tour point you want to start with.
For example, tour stop 16 features the Esri Learning Center. To open the map tour at this location add &index=16 to the end of the URL. To share the tour at this location copy and paste the URL into an email or use it in a link.
Click the image below to open the tour at this location and examine the URL in your browser:
For more information and to view other map stories visit the Story Maps website.
(Thanks to Rupert Essinger for contributions to this post)