Story Maps are an first-class agency to non solely visualize geographical information but to guide the stories too patterns inward your mapped data. Thanks to Mapbox's novel Scrollytelling Template at that topographic point is straightaway a novel tool to assistance you lot practice your real ain 'scrollytelling' map stories.
You tin plough over the sack preview a floor map created amongst the Scrollytelling Template on this demo map. The demo map non solely introduces the novel Scrollytelling Template it shows you lot what you lot tin plough over the sack practice amongst the template. As you lot scroll through the floor the map zooms too pans to dissimilar locations. It also adds too removes information from the map too adds too removes dissimilar map layers too features every bit you lot scroll upward too downward on the page.
I've solely had a quick expect at using the template myself. Creating your ain floor map, mainly past times adding your ain text too locations to the config.js JavaScript file, is reasonably straightforward. It also seems fairly straightforward to add together your ain layers to a 'chapter' when you lot desire to alter the information or appearance of the map. However creating a floor map amongst the Scrollytelling Template isn't a piddling task.
I'm soundless a big fan of Mapbox's Scroll Driven Navigation map inward the Mapbox GL instance maps. If you lot merely demand a elementary floor map template too therefore I intend I would role the Scroll Driven Navigation example. The novel Scrollytelling Template comes into its ain yet when you lot demand to add together too take map features too layers for each chapter inward your floor too if you lot desire to add together too take dissimilar information layers.
From the instance scrollytelling maps provided on its GitHub page it appears that the Scrollytelling Template disables whatsoever user reactions amongst the map past times default. Looking through the configuration options at that topographic point doesn't appear to endure whatsoever slow agency to permit users to interact amongst the actual map. Therefore it looks similar you lot volition convey to play closed to amongst the CSS styles which concord the floor text if you lot desire your users to endure able to explore too play amongst the underlying map.
