Story Map
A Story Map guides viewers through a sequence of locations as they scroll, pairing rich text and images with smooth fly-to animations. It's perfect for tours, journalism, and narrative presentations.
Write chapters, attach each to a map view, and Mapji handles the camera transitions as readers scroll. Join the chapters with a route — straight lines, or along roads by car, bike or on foot — and every chapter gets its own link.
Or make it a travel journal: stops with dates, and for each leg the way you went — car, train, walking, cycling, flight, sailing or rowing. Car, cycling and walking legs can follow roads; the rest are drawn straight, or along a GPS track you import or a line you draw. Visitors open on an overview of the whole trip and step into the story from any stop.
What you can do
- Scroll, click or keyboard navigation
- Travel journals with dates and GPS tracks
- Routes along roads or straight lines
How to create a story map
- 1
Create a Story Map
Start a new site and choose the Story Map type.
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Write chapters
Add text and images for each step of your narrative.
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Set map views
Pin each chapter to a location and zoom for the fly-to animation.
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Publish
Share your scroll-driven story on your domain.
Story Map FAQ
What's the difference between a story map and a slideshow?
A slideshow advances between separate images; a story map keeps one continuous map that flies between locations as the reader scrolls, so the geographic relationship between chapters stays visible throughout.
Can I add images to chapters?
Yes. Upload a PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP straight into a chapter — or paste or drop it into the text — and it appears in the chapter alongside its map view. Large photos are scaled down before upload.
Can a story map be a travel journal?
Yes. Choose Travel Journal when you create the map, or switch in Settings at any time — nothing is lost either way. Stops get dates, each leg gets the way you travelled, and visitors open on an overview of the whole trip: the route, the dates, the distance and every stop. Car, cycling and walking legs can follow roads; trains, flights and boats are drawn straight unless the leg has a GPS track or a line you drew.
Can a story map show the route between chapters?
Yes. Join the chapters in order with straight lines, or along roads by car, bike or on foot. Road routes are worked out in the editor and saved with the story, so readers never wait for them; a leg that is too long for the travel mode, or has no road between the two places, is drawn as a dashed straight line.