Customize the Map Tour map

[JanetBrewster1]

Hello All,

Is it possible to customize the map in a Map Tour? Specifically:

• changing the location icon symbol
• symbolizing the icon based on an attribute (i.e. symbolizing the icons based on year)
• adding a legend
• making the map interactive (giving the user the ability to turn on/off layers)

We have multiple years of projects and would like the user to be able to choose a year via the map, rather than having to endlessly scroll through the tour to get to the year they want. I've seen other StoryMaps with years in the navigation, but that gets very unwieldy as the years add up.

I found a GitHub site for the Map Tour, https://github.com/Esri/storymap-tour?tab=readme-ov-file#customize-the-look-and-feel, but it hasn't been updated in 5 years, so don't know if it's still relevant for this generation of StoryMap. Plus I haven't used CSS in a StoryMap and I'm not sure how to even incorporate.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Janet

[OwenGeo · Accepted solution]

@JanetBrewster1  -- The relatively new categorized map tour layout meets several of the requests you mentioned.

For more information, see Use — or create — a feature service to build a map tour in ArcGIS StoryMaps, Create a data-driven map tour, and What's new in ArcGIS StoryMaps (February 2025)

[JanetBrewster1]

Thank you so much, Owen!

I don't see the categorized tour option in my existing StoryMap, but I'll update my data and map and try again.

Janet

[JanetBrewster1]

@OwenGeo 

Yes, I got this to work -- thank you! This was a huge help, with a much more streamlined way to incorporate more locations. I have thoughts for additional functionality, but I'll put those in Ideas.

Thanks again!

Janet