Evaluating data, GitHub Pages, and telling stories with maps
https://gis5574.signin.aws.amazon.com/console
In the last several years, story mapping has emerged as a way to bring a "guided tour" feel to interactive maps. Below are (in my mind at least) the biggest players.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com
https://esri.github.io/#Storytelling
example
- Esri integration
- Easy to include photos/videos from other website
- Ease of use
- Can be a little on the ugly side
- Limited to Esri map embedding
http://umn-gis-5574.github.io/odyssey.js/ http://www.azavea.com/blogs/atlas/2015/02/using-odysseyjs-sandbox/ example
- Very powerful
- Integrates Torque as a unique viewing option
- Easy to connect to a CartoDB layer
- Documentation is a bit spotty, making the learning curve a bit trickier than the others
- Looking forward, it's not clear if it's going to see much improvement
- Great way to start writing in Markdown, as it's an integral aspect of Odyssey
https://storymap.knightlab.com/
example
another example
http://neatline.org/
Runs on top of Omeka
Intro to GitHub Pages
Two choices
- user or organization site, useful for portfolio type sites.
- project site, for projects(!)
This week's assignment is to fork the week7 repo and create your own project site, what you need to do is:
- Fork the week7 repo
- Clone your fork
- Create a new branch and call it gh-pages
- Create an
index.htmlfile - Add the following boilerplate
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>GIS 5574 - My story map</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<style>
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1> Look at my story map!</h1>
<!-- Your embed code goes in here -->
<p>What did you think?</p>
</body>
</html>- Add the iframe embed code for your story map into the
index.htmlfile - Commit and sync your file
- In a few minutes go to
<your Github account>.github.io/week7and you should see your work! (for example, since my username iskrdykeI would go tokrdyke.github.io/week7 - Create a pull request so I can see that you're done.