Storymaps. Telling stories with cards

 Storymaps is a great Multimedia storytelling tool to tell a story using a geographical map. In reality, the platform does much more, much better than that. It is a comprehensive online storytelling tool for storytelling with text, photos, videos, sounds and therefore also maps.

Storymaps offers all the tools you need to create beautiful multimedia stories.

The platform, developed by Esri, combines mapping and storytelling to offer interactive and engaging experiences, well adapted to the needs of the world of education.

Multimedia Narration with Storymaps

What is Storymaps?

Storymaps is a professional online platform that allowsreer interactive narrative maps by combining text, images, videos and maps. The tool facilitates the understanding and communication of complex geographical data or pedagogical narratives by highlighting them in the form of a multimedia narrative.

Not to be confused with StorymapsJS, free tool which is also used to play with cards.

Telling a multimedia story by associating geographical locations

With Stoymaps, you will be able to Embark your students and readers all over the world with great precision. For this, you will benefit from a mapping technology recognised for its quality. You will be able to add geographical locations to your story with very easy-to-use annotation and drawing tools.

Narration with cards

Storymaps an editing interface of exemplary ergonomics. Beautiful layouts are at your disposal to allow you to focus on the essentials and to be able to offer multimedia stories of the highest technical quality in record time. It's up to you to choose the ingredients of your story: videos, images, audio clips …

One of the main strengths of Storymaps is that it does not require programming or mapping skills. Thus, teachers can easily create and share their own narrative maps with their students without drowning in code or multimedia creation software.

Customize your Storymaps before you share them

The Storymaps platform is a tool of creation in its own right. You will be able to give free rein to your creativity. You will even enjoy it as it is simple and effective.

It’s up to you to choose background colors, fonts, button styles, highlight snippets or quotes and much more.

Multimedia editor

Storymaps ready-to-use themes for immediate ownership. But you can also choose to create your own theme once you are familiar with the tool. Again, there is no need for any particular technical experience.

The platform also simplifies the sharing of your stories. Unique url for sharing by email or on social networks. You can also get a code to directly embed your storytelling on a website or blog.

Note that Storymaps allows you to classify your stories into shareable collections as well. Another highlight, mobile versions for smartphones and tablets to create or modify your narrations from anywhere.

Storymaps on mobile

Storymaps is a great creative tool that really puts multimedia storytelling at everyone's fingertips, students or teachers.

You can test for free Storymaps for 30 days. Then the free plan is limited to 10 stories. For full and unlimited access it will be necessary to go through the subscription box at 10 Eur per month.