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Creating a story map similar to Cooper Thomas who is part of the Esri Story Map Team

VictoriaGrima — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:26:06 GMT

Hi, I really like the style that Cooper Thomas used to created his story map titled 'Iran: A Glimpse Beyond the Headlines'. I would like to use it to create a story map. It is possible to know which one he used. I tried to go through the templates but I cannot find it. Also, I would like to show a label when I hover over a point, it is possible to know how this is done, because I could not find such settings in the Pop-Up configuration section of the layer.

thanks lots for the help.

Victoria

Re: Creating a story map similar to Cooper Thomas who is part of the Esri Story Map Team

DanPatterson_Retired — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:33:55 GMT

Could you update your question with the link you used.

Re: Creating a story map similar to Cooper Thomas who is part of the Esri Story Map Team

AdrianWelsh — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 04:07:51 GMT

It looks like a map template that is probably not released yet:

http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2016/iran-tour/

I found it in the "custom" section of the story maps page:

http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/gallery/#s=0&md=storymaps-apps:custom

It's very similar to the Bees map that Esri made:

http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2014/bee-tour/

Re: Creating a story map similar to Cooper Thomas who is part of the Esri Story Map Team

VictoriaGrima — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:55:20 GMT

Hi to both,

this is the link for the story map that I am referring too http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2016/iran-tour/

Adrian Welsh found it in the custom section of the story map gallery. Myself I found it on the general page of the story maps gallery. Do you know if there is a way to use it?

thanks

Re: Creating a story map similar to Cooper Thomas who is part of the Esri Story Map Team

AdrianWelsh — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:01:26 GMT

Hi Victoria,

From what I gather, you cannot [yet] use this story map as a template.

This blog post somewhat explains the evolution of a story map template (and hopefully this particularly map will become a template soon):

The Story Maps Life Cycle | Esri Insider

Re: Creating a story map similar to Cooper Thomas who is part of the Esri Story Map Team

VictoriaGrima — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:20:49 GMT

Hi Adrian

Thanks, I read the article, I hope they consider in doing it a template because the layout it is very nice. I will look into the other available template and select one of those for now for my project. By any chance is there a way to show the label of a point when the mouse hovers over it?

thanks again for all of your input.

Re: Creating a story map similar to Cooper Thomas who is part of the Esri Story Map Team

VictoriaGrima — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:22:21 GMT

Hi Adrian,

Thanks, I read the article, I hope they consider in doing it a template because the layout it is very nice. I will look into the other available templates and select one of those for now for my project. By any chance is there a way to show the label of a point when the mouse cursor hovers over it?

thanks

Re: Creating a story map similar to Cooper Thomas who is part of the Esri Story Map Team

OwenGeo — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:44:15 GMT

Hi Victoria,

Thanks for your interest in Cooper's story. As has been discussed above already, he used a customized version of Map Tour that is not currently available as a template.

However, we have just begun work to re-design Map Tour from scratch with a new builder and several new layouts. One of the new layouts will be similar to the Iran story that Cooper did.

We hope to have the initial release the new Map Tour in the first half of next year.

Owen

Re: Creating a story map similar to Cooper Thomas who is part of the Esri Story Map Team

VictoriaGrima — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:59:04 GMT

Hi Owen,

thanks very much for the further info. I have another question that I would like to ask you but I would like to know if I continue on this thread or should I post a new question.

thanks

Re: Creating a story map similar to Cooper Thomas who is part of the Esri Story Map Team

OwenGeo — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:02:13 GMT

Please use a new thread for a new, unrelated question. Thx! 🙂

Re: Creating a story map similar to Cooper Thomas who is part of the Esri Story Map Team

VictoriaGrima — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:06:48 GMT

ok thanks