Earlier today I explained how I believe that 1 side past times side big tendency inwards online mapping volition endure Narrative or Story maps. Applications that motility beyond beingness but mapped visualizations of information but also drive to say the underlying stories behind the data.
Over the terminal few years nosotros accept seen some corking mapped visualizations, maps that let users to explore information past times location. We are directly also get-go to run across some corking maps that rely on narrative to explicate of import stories. Two real skillful recent examples of this are the Jamaican Slave Revolt Map together with Hussain's Journey.
Last calendar week Vizzuality received a $35,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to construct an opened upward source tool to tending developers create precisely these kinds of Story Maps. Vizzuality already accept the beginnings of this tool inwards place. You tin sentiment the progress hence far on the Odyssey.js GitHub page.
The Odyssey tool is beingness designed to tending developers combine narratives amongst maps to create compelling stories. If you lot accept a hold off at the quick start example map on GitHub you lot tin run across that the electrical flow version of Odyssey includes 2 principal elements, a map together with a scrollable narrative element. When the user scrolls downward on the page triggers inwards the narrative chemical gene burn actions on the map. The upshot is that every bit the user progresses through the floor the map automatically updates to illustrate the narrative.
This is real like to the approach I took inwards this narrative map almost the Mary Celeste that I seat together amongst the tending of jQuery Waypoints together with the Google Maps API. One twenty-four hr menstruation I mightiness become around to creating my ain Story Map library using this Mary Celeste map every bit a template. Until together with hence anyone is complimentary to purpose the code from the map to say their ain mapped stories amongst the Google Maps API.
