Open Water Foundation / Learn ArcGIS Story Maps
This documentation provides resources to learn how to use the ArcGIS Story Maps web mapping application. Story Maps let you combine maps with narrative text, images and multimedia content to tell a story.
This documentation has been written based on experience using ArcGIS Story Maps at the Open Water Foundation (OWF), with focus on tasks that are useful in water resources and solutions.
This documentation focuses on both the free ArcGIS Online public account and the paid ArcGIS Online organizational account. See Create an ArcGIS Online Account to decide which type of account is most beneficial for your use.
About the Open Water Foundation
The Open Water Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit social enterprise that focuses on developing and supporting open source software for water resources, so that organizations can make better decisions about water. OWF has created this documentation to educate its staff, other developers, and clients that use ArcGIS Story Maps for spatial data visualization and storytelling.
See also other OWF learning resources.
How to Use this Documentation
The documentation is organized in order of information and tasks necessary to setup an ArcGIS Online account (either free or paid) and use the Story Map templates to create a story using maps, images, videos and web pages.
This documentation is not intended to be a full reference for Story Maps but focuses on important topics that will help understand important technical concepts and be successful with Story Maps.
Use the navigation menu provided on the left side of the page to navigate the documentation sections within the full document. Use the navigation menu provided on the right side of the page to navigate the documentation sections within a page. The navigation menus may not be displayed if the web browser window is narrow or if viewing on a mobile device, in which case look for a menu icon to access the menus. Use the search feature to find documentation matching the search words.
License
The OWF Learn ArcGIS Story Maps website content and examples are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Source Repository on GitHub
The source files for this documentation are maintained in a GitHub repository: owf-learn-arcgis-story-maps.
Release Notes
See the Release Notes in the GitHub Project.