Adding a time animation web map to a Story Map

[DiegoLlamas]

Hi,

I have this really cool time animation map that shows drought in Puerto Rico in 2015

http://gmtcorp.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=e77f15ed6d504d828a7186080c9746a5

I am trying to create a Story Map (journal) and when I consume this Web Map

it stops been a dynamic map and is just a static map. Is this normal?

Do I need to add the url of my map like a URL content and not like a map content if I want to have the time animation functionality? is it the only way?

and my second question. I have two animated maps, one from last year and one from this year. I want to put them together in one section of my journal. I know there is a template that compare two maps. can I embed that template to my jornal?

Thanks for your help!

Diego Llamas

[StephenSylvia · Accepted solution]

At this time the Map Journal app does not support time-enabled layers when you load a map into the Main Stage. The best way to accomplish this would be to publish your web map in the Time Aware template then embed it in the Map Journal as a web map. Here’s a blog post that explains the process: http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2015/08/03/how-to-make-a-time-aware-story-map/.

[OwenGeo]

And to answer your second question, the process of embedding the time aware app in a story map is the same that you'd use to embed the swipe/compare app in a story map. Here's another post that describes that in more detail:

Embedding a Story Map within a Story Map | ArcGIS Blog

Owen