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Esri Canada Story Maps: Take an eerie map tour across Canada

Story Maps combine intelligent Web maps with Web applications and templates that incorporate text, multimedia, and interactive functions. Story Maps inform, educate, entertain, and inspire people about a wide variety of topics.

In the spirit of Halloween, I’ve created a map tour of Canada’s 10 Most Haunted Places where paranormal activity has been rumored to have occurred. Have you stayed in or visited any of these places? Learn how to create a map tour using ArcGIS Online by working through the tutorials listed below:

The Basics of Storytelling
In this tutorial, you will create different types of storytelling maps to tell different stories.

Introduction to Story Maps
In this two part tutorial, you will first create and publish a Map Tour, a type of Story Map Web application, through ArcGIS Online with provided data. You will then be challenged to create and publish your own Map Tour application, by collecting your own data.

Visit the Esri Story Maps Web site and explore the Esri Story Maps for Education Video Series for more resources on creating your own story maps.

About the Author

Angela Alexander is a K-12 Education Specialist in the Esri Canada Education and Research group. She has over 15 years of experience working with educators across Canada. Angela focuses on producing geographic information system (GIS) and curriculum-specific resources, and conducting and creating custom workshops for educators. She manages the GIS Ambassador Program and is the Technical Chair for the annual Skills Ontario GIS competition. Angela also writes monthly posts for the Esri Canada Education and Research blog, highlighting K-12 educators and partners, new ArcGIS resources and GIS-related events.

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