From Map to Story: Publishing Your Analysis

This tutorial packages a finished analysis into something stakeholders can read: a scroll-driven story, a print-ready layout, and a shareable HTML export. It uses the Projects tools.

1. Finish the map first

A story is only as good as its base map. Style every layer, set the basemap, and save the project — the publishing tools below reference the live project state, not a snapshot.

2. Author the narrative

1. Run Projects → Scroll-Driven Story Authoring and write one section per finding: the map pans and zooms while the reader scrolls.
2. Use Projects → Chapter Layer Effects to fade layers in and out between chapters, so each section shows exactly the evidence it talks about.
3. For a guided-tour variant, Projects → Story Map… walks the viewer stop by stop.

3. Add the furniture

• Projects → Title Block Info Panel puts the project title, author, and date on the map.
• Projects → Custom Legends and Colorbars makes every styled layer self-explanatory.

4. Print and multi-page output

1. Projects → Print Layout… composes the key view with title, legend, and scale.
2. Projects → Atlas Map Series generates one page per feature — one page per zone, site, or basin — from a single layout.
3. Projects → PDF Handout Export bundles the layout set into a PDF for the meeting.

5. Publish

• Projects → Export As HTML… produces a self-contained interactive viewer — no server, no accounts.

Next steps

• Save As Template… turns this project’s layout and structure into the starting point for the next analysis.
• Story Import and Export moves the narrative between projects when the same story needs updated data.