Story Maps

Story Maps allows you to capture several different views and tie them together into a “story” that another user can click through. It also includes the ability to add text, images or video to each of the snapshots you are capturing so that you can add more context to the scene you are capturing and sharing.

Story Editor

Select the Story icon at the top of the screen. This will open the Story Editor panel on the far right displaying the Getting Started (link to the tutorial video) and Capture Scene options.

Getting Started

Select this to view the tutorial video.

Capture Scene

To create your story select Capture Scene.
Within the Scene Capture window, enter your story title and text for your first scene, you also add images, links and format the text as required, then select Save.

PRO TIP – If you want your first scene to be a different view to the Mapping Interface screen, ensure you have your preferred dataset added to the map prior to capturing your first scene. You can also add a dataset to the map at any time during the story/scene capture process.

From the above image you can see that the information entered in the prior step is displayed in the story editor panel. You can adjust each scene whenever you like by selecting the ellipsis (3 dots)

You can build your story and capture additional scenes by repeating the steps 2 & 3. Use the View Catalogue option to add or change your datasets between each scene. In the example below, the Fishermans Bend data set has been added to the mapping screen and two more scenes have been added to the story. Each created scene is added to the list in the Story Editor Panel

Play and Share

Select Play to review your video. A playback window will display at the bottom of the screen to help you navigate through your story.

Once complete, you can hit Share and can copy and send this URL to another user to view.

Go to the following DTV tutorials:

https://youtu.be/-wP_2J_5kAw?si=X3KZI_vMWIVw4pdJ

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