A user experience for place-based narratives
The Story Map Tour℠ app template is ideal when you want to present a linear, place-based narrative featuring images or videos. Each "story point" in the narrative is geo-located. Your users have the option of clicking sequentially through the narrative, or they can browse by interacting with the map or using the thumbnail carousel.
Get inspired!
Our gallery of Story Map Tours shows that this popular app can be used for many purposes. The number of story points can vary; however, less than a dozen points can feel sparse, and more than about fifty can seem too long.
Explore the Story Map Tour gallery
Build your story!
Your story is automatically hosted on ArcGIS Online.
Tutorial
Build story
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Host it yourself
Story Map apps are open source, so you have the option to host an app on your own web server. For example, you may want to give your story a custom URL, or make styling changes beyond what is possible with our authoring tools. If you're a developer, you can get the source code on GitHub to do more advanced customization. See the introduction below for step-by-step instructions, and visit our Developers’ Corner for customization tips and ideas.
Download the ready-to-deploy app
Get the source code on GitHub
Introduction to hosting a Story Map app
Story Maps Developers' Corner
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Let us know what you think about the Map Tour app. Your feedback is appreciated.