Esri has announced the winners of the 2014 French Story Maps competition.
Esri's narrative mapping platform, Story Maps, combines maps amongst rich media content to say the even out of a place, event, issue, trend, or designing inwards a geographic context. One of the huge advantages of Story Maps is the depression entry barrier. You don't take away to hold out a GIS specialist or a spider web developer to utilise a Story Map.
This depression entry barrier has seen the popularity of Story Maps grow together with grow. An illustration of this popularity is the 25 maps submitted to the 2015 French Story Maps competition.
The overall winner of the contest was the 10,000 Year Migration of Snails inwards Southern France. This Story Map explores the distribution of vi unlike species of snails inwards Mediterranean French Republic from the early on Holocene menses to the acquaint day.
In instant house was The Map of the Bourges Light Nights. Every summertime the French metropolis of Bourges creates a spectacularly lit night-time walk some some of the architectural heritage of Bourges.
The Map of the Bourges Light Nights plots the Night Lights trail together with provides data most the of import historical buildings that you lot tin grade the sack persuasion on this walk most the city.
In 3rd house was The World Tour of Geoglyphs. This map takes you lot on a tour of some of the world's most good known geoglyphs, allowing you lot to persuasion the satellite imagery of each of the featured giant artistic province features.
You tin grade the sack persuasion all 25 of these French Story Maps on the SIG 2014 website.
