Interactive story telling made easy with Story Maps

We now have a new way of being able to tell better stories about Council projects with images, maps, text, audio and video using Esri Story Maps.

Esri Story Maps is an application that allows us to connect places and events which are widely separated in time and space.

"The WW100 celebrations have touched many New Zealanders and our World War One Memorial Forest Project was a perfect place for our Council to start to tell our stories using Story Maps," says our Chief Executive Rob Williams.

The WWI Memorial Forest story takes us through New Zealand's involvement in the war and the forests of native New Zealand trees we've planted in the Coromandel to pay tribute to the soldiers who fell in battle.

Follow our Memorial Forest project on Story Maps here

For more information on the Memorial Forest project, have a look at our web pagewww.tcdc.govt.nz/ww1memorialforest

You can commemorate one of the 18,166 New Zealand soldiers who were killed in the Great War with a $25 donation that pays for the planting and care of a native tree in one our eight Memorial Forest sites. You'll receive a memorial certificate with the name of the soldier and the GPS co-ordinates of the tree.

Have a look at other stories here: Story Map videos

Esri is the producer of ArcGIS, which is the application behind the online maps system our Council uses, called SMART Maps.

Make your own Story Map

It's possible for you to use Esri Story Maps to create your own interactive digital stories.

You can sign up for a free account with your Facebook or Google credentials. Or get an ArcGIS subscription to access premium data, publish your own data, perform analysis, set up enterprise-wide use, and more.

• Get a free, non-commercial ArcGIS Public Account
• Get a 60-day free trial ArcGIS Subscription
• Purchase an ArcGIS Subscription

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