Telling Stories with Maps : Transforming Data into Engaging Visual Stories

Bring data to life with this essential guide to storytelling with maps.  From scraping patterns in sand to drawing intricate lines on vellum and paper, to charting every place on the planet, humans have used maps as a powerful storytelling medium. The advent of the digital age has revolutionized the creation, distribution, and consumption of maps. The web created enormous opportunities for storytelling, enabling maps to dance and weave, partnering with other multimedia elements—photos, video, audio, text—to tell countless tales about our world.  Featuring a foreword by renowned travel writer and cofounder of Lonely Planet Tony Wheeler, Telling Stories with Maps: Lessons from a Lifetime of Creating Place-Based Narratives bridges both the analog and digital realms, showcasing how maps themselves tell stories and enrich narratives by providing context and insight. Richly illustrated with examples from traditional maps to the latest digital visualizations, this book is an essential guide for anyone interested in the powerful storytelling potential of maps.  Topics covered include:  How storytelling is fundamental to our humanity   Comparing and contrasting the use of words, images, and maps in storytelling  How maps help us tackle the who, what, when, where, why, and how   Considerations for the deep connection between maps and memory  How cartography and location-based storytelling have changed during the digital age   How the author and his collaborators refined storytelling techniques to create printed wall maps and atlas plates  The roles that maps play in narrative context  Readers will learn:   15 approaches to storytelling and place-based topics  How exposure to maps and geography can change how we think  Storytelling approaches suited for digital media yet honoring the centuries-old conventions of cartography  How to develop multimedia stories with the ability to employ motion and interactivity for your audience  Practical features and functions of ArcGIS StoryM