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Story Maps: The Power of Storytelling with Maps

Story meet map. Story maps are an interactive way to display a particular event, issue, place, or trend with a focus on location.

Esri’s Living Atlas of the World is the largest curation of maps, apps, and data layers from authoritative providers around the world.

Here’s a list of non-geospatial tools we’ve all got secretly in our back pockets. It’s the functionality that GIS just isn’t cut out to do!

A Western Sahara map – the disputed region in the northwest of Africa with a reference map, satellite imagery, and an elevation map.

A map of the US Virgin Islands that features its groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea with satellite imagery, settlements, roads, and bays.

A map of Turks and Caicos that displays its islands in the Atlantic Ocean with satellite imagery, settlements, roads, points, and bays.

A map of Tokelau that displays its collection of atolls remotely located in the Pacific Ocean with points, bays, islands, and settlements.

A map of Saint Helena – the remote collection of islands in the Atlantic Ocean with points, bays, settlements, airports, roads, and mountains.

A map of Pitcairn Island with its one major settlement, Adamstown, and its four major islands – Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno.

A map of North Macedonia that features its major cities, towns, lakes, rivers, roads, highways, mountains with satellite imagery and elevation.