Map Choreography: How to make an ArcGIS StoryMap sing and dance

[@mathewvarner6597]

I have been binging on These videos all day. These are very informative and hands on for beginners in GIS and Cartographers. Thankyou so much for making all these videos.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

@@mathewvarner6597 cool! Thanks Matthew

[@chunhangchan8801]

Hey John, Thank you so much for this tutorial this was amazing, I wish to see more content about arcGIS story map in the future!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

@@chunhangchan8801 good idea!

[@yelena4612]

Thank you so much, John. I am making Storymaps all the time and did not even think about using map choreography in them. Live and learn. 🙂

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

You bet! Happy mapping.

[@chriscrai]

Liked commented and subscribed for the algorithm. Just came here to say hi John, thanks for the tutorial :)

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

wow, thank you! welcome!

[@ariefrossiramadhan5376]

thank you john, really inspiring

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Thanks!

[@burungnesiaapp]

amazing! always love to watch your tutorial 🥰

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Thanks!

[@Guetzer]

Great content as always, John!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Thanks Guetzer!

[@superseasnails8368]

This is just the tutorial I needed thank you!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

ah great, thanks!

[@shroog5130]

Thank you, that was great 👍🏼

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

You're very welcome!

[@RubenBruijning]

"I choose floating for the reason I like it better" Best. Reason. EVER!!!!! Salutations as usual from the Netherlands!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

we houden van wat we leuk vinden! bedankt Ruben!

[@MLKYWY503]

Love this!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

thanks Angela!

[@tishbank]

Hi John, thanks for your videos, great and really helpful content. I'm trying to create a storymap of my bike trip around the world, When you transition from one location to another, you seem to use a flyto transition that I don't have available? as I'm cycling, this transition makes way more sense in terms of continuity. Thanks for your advice and have a great day

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

thanks! sounds like an amazing story! i'd love to see it when it's done. what part of my video do you see a different fly-to transition? i know that there's recently been an enhancement that flies to a new location via an arc, rather than rapid as-the-fird-flies at the same scale. maybe that's it?

[@ComradeMuffin.]

This video helped me so much. I’m a bit late to the show but thank you.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Wonderful! Thanks!

[@PottersWork]

Thank you for this video, it's exactly what I needed! Do you know if there is a way to make the fly-to transitions a little slower between slides?

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

this is a new feature being developed by the javascript API, which is an underlying tech. hopefully in the future the Story builder will expose that option.

[@PottersWork]

Thank you for that info John! And thanks again for sharing your knowledge, your video helped me tremendously @@JohnNelsonMaps

[@krishthapar9929]

Informative video! However, when I uploaded my feature layers to the map tour, it only accepted one layer (point layer) and not the raster sketches I made- what is the solution to this? Thanks :)

[@dominiontheory]

Thank you John I'munna try this :)

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Great!

[@Monsieur.Chavez]

Damn you're a good teacher.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

i appreciate that, Travis!

[@favouridogun-dw1ji]

Hi, this was a very informative video, thank you. Please i wanted to ask where do you get your data from.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Thanks! A lot of my data comes from the ArcGIS Living Atlas

[@Reinforesta]

Thanks so much for the inspiration! Any chance you've done a tutorial on the fantastic symbology on the maps at 7:46 and 7:55?

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

hi Megan, thanks! yes! you can find a how-to for those maps here: www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/analytics/analytics/happy-maps/ it's before i started making videos, but should get you there.

[@Reinforesta]

@@JohnNelsonMaps Thanks so much! It's a really great way of presenting multiple variables. Well done!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

@@Reinforesta thanks!

[@louisolson9192]

In your last StoryMap you have tabs at the top. How do you add tabs in StoryMap?

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

at the top of your story, choose the "Design" button, which slides open a panel of options for your story. In it, there's a section called "Optional story sections". Activate the "Navigation" option. Here's more info: doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-storymaps/author-and-share/add-story-navigation.htm

[@treyhull8424]

Any reason why you'd choose this method over the Map Tour feature? Don't get me wrong, it looks really cool, I'm just curious.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Thanks! Map tour is very specific in its use so there are limited features.

[@StarshipsSteel]

John, we handed in our final StoryMap project on Friday. Why you release this NOW!?!?

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Wha! You’ll love this: I made it Thursday!

[@StarshipsSteel]

@@JohnNelsonMaps :D hahahhahaa

[@GrahamNickerson-z6y]

Thanks. Nice yard.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Thank you!

[@savagecabbage895]

Noice work bro

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

@@savagecabbage895 thanks!

[@Ahmedali_-qd9eg]

nice!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Thanks!

[@bobsage]

The graphics on that intro globe map are pretty snazzy.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Thanks Bob!

[@99auburngirl]

hey everyone i have a Storymaps problem I really need help with. I am trying to make a storymap of projects in different phases (complete, under construction, etc). I currently have it set up where i have my webmap with the layers that have the polygons on them and a sidecar with a list of the project names. each project name has a map action associated so that when you click on the project name in the sidecar, the map zooms to that project area. BUT i also want it to open the attribute table for that project when it zooms so you can see the project date, cost, and other info. i can not figure out how to do this in the new version of storymaps, please help!!!!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

if it were me, i'd format the layer's popup to look and show what i wanted, and have that open in the map action. i think you can have a popup automatically open via a map action.

[@99auburngirl]

@@JohnNelsonMaps Yes i have that configured but for some reason when i set the map action (zoom to the area, select the polygon to have the popup open) and save, when i go to play the map action it only does the zoom and does not do the popup part of the map action. im wondering if this is just a bug or something?

[@99auburngirl]

@@JohnNelsonMaps I know having the popup open as part of a map action was possible on the older version of Storymaps bc I have an old map on a website that does it but I am starting to think that the new version doesn't have that capability.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

​@@99auburngirl i asked the storymaps team about it and they sent me this. maybe it's helpful? support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/how-to-enable-hover-popups-in-arcgis-storymaps-000021047 sort of a clunky workaround. the team said they are going to support visible popups in early 2024. sorry for the inconvenience!

[@99auburngirl]

@@JohnNelsonMaps Thank you for checking on that John! Unfortunately that workaround only enables hover over popups. It also requires you to embed the map which then disables to map action capabilities so id lose the zoom in feature. Hopefully they'll get that fix in soon!

[@KellieVlastos]

No fresh eggs today :/ Thanks for the great tutorial, though!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

😂