ABSTRACT
Web mapping tools typically present the user in a web browser with a series of tools that accomplish certain functions, such as measurement, symbology, and analysis, along with an interactive map canvas, and the ability to save, embed, and share. Story maps are specific types of web mapping applications. They combine interactive maps, multimedia content, and user experiences to tell stories about the world, from local to global scale. Story maps include an array of ‘app types’ that provide for different ways of interaction and thus different experiences. These app types include map tours, map journals, cascade, shortlist, series, swipe, spyglass, crowdsourced, and basic. The easiest story map app to create, and as of 2019 the most common type of story map, is the map tour. Story map journals allow for a greater variety of multimedia to be incorporated than do map tours. Journals also allow for a greater amount of text narrative.
