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Mapme Stories — Tell stunning stories through maps
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Hi PH'ers!
We've been busy at Mapme building a new product, while continuing to grow our classic mapping product. Excited to share it with you and hear your thoughts. We think that maps have the potential to become their own medium of storytelling and this product can make that happen.
Mapme Stories is an incredibly easy tool for sharing stories through maps. Here are some examples:
Top veggie places in Berlin
Euro 2016 stadiums
(Creation from web, usage from anywhere. )
It takes minutes to create something like that. You can embed videos, gifs, images, links, buttons all within the content. And of course you can easily share or embed them anywhere.
You can even create custom maps, and upload your own background:
The state of Westeros in Season 5 GOT
Team Real Madrid
(That's still in beta, if you want to try it out, ping us at support@mapme.com)
If you want to give it a try, check out http://app.mapme.com ✌️
Love to hear your thoughts, thanks!
ben@mapme.com
@jpvalery Thanks! http://www.goal.com made that one, we'll let them know.
@benln @mapme I was doing something called MapItOff until the team broke off, and it was something a bit similar.
This is cool!
Also, have you checked out how Google tells a story when you take pictures and make one? (don't recall the name) there are cool inspiring things for a story like approach to maps there.
@benln integrating it with social networks can help by easing the process of creation of a map. However, originally i was referring to the interface of Google photo when it tells stories. That interwoving between maps and pictures is stunning IMO.
If I were you, I would find out if people really want to pull photos from social before doing that, or if they prefer different visuals to tell their stories.
While your product is cool. The way that it exposes those stories with a map is not as stunning as the aforementioned product, and perhaps it's not supposed to, or needs to. But it's definitely worth to find out if you would get more uses if people had alternatives besides the map in center photo on left, or if they really love it as is and would use it more by pulling from social.
PS: @benln I saw @bouazizalex westeros map that he posted, and I love the way it's shown on mobile!
The embedded version feels quite clunky though (it might be from the original site, but it took quite some time to load )
Also, the embedded version didn't recognize that I was in mobile, so, in a phone, it's not that good of an experience.
You guys should try caching the images that Leaflet serves. I think you can do that quite easily and quickly by using cloudflare for it. Also, if it isn't yet, pack all ur js and optimize and minify them, and that alone should show you some considerable performance gains in the network tab of the your favorite browser's 'inspector'
First of all - congrats! I really like the idea behind map stories. Coming back from a week in Tokyo, I know that it would've been awesome to have my trip as a map story and then hand it to other people as a suggested itinerary.
Since most pics and videos we take are automatically geo-tagged, did you think about being able to upload photos and then simply have a suggested story (by locations and dates), something like Google Photos does, but better?
Can't wait to see how it goes.
looks cool. would be great to have a granular step by step walking guide for "mini maps"?
Mapme marketing department targeting me the right way... http://story.mapme.com/westeros
Congrats on the release guys, keep rocking!
@bouazizalex Yeah! Here's how it looks embedded - http://collider.com/game-of-thro...
HUGE FAN OF BEN and TEAM. As they know I'm always spamming their twitter with phrase and bug resports ;P
And some..... self promoting. Here's one of my maps!
https://mapme.com/johnny-world-g...
@johnnyquachy You rock Johnny! Here's the Story version of your map https://story.mapme.com/johnny-w... 😊
I'm big fun Mapme and it's so great to hear about your new product! Looking forward to make my own special map :)
Creating a story on mobile felt a bit rough around the edges but overall - super cool!
I've got some foodie friends i can't wait to share this with. They'll go insane with this.
Nice work guys!
@yonidariel Yeah creating only works on desktop/tablet. Using it works everywhere... Thanks :)
Seems to be a great tool! Telling stories trough maps can be more effective and even more fun to read. Congrats, hope you guys can grow!
Great work Ben and the rest of the team! What inspired you to create a powerful story telling tool with your platform?
#interesting and cool way to express. Even a slight paradigm shift to the we have been sharing stories. We have been adding photos, and tagging locations. This is the opposite way, grouped together and easier to navigate as well.
Another quick reaction after I was checking few from your gallery. Yes the product is mapme, and its map focused. However, in some of the cases I felt that layout needs to be opposite, or say adjustable. After all you are focusing on stories and content, rather than the map. An option to switch map on left-sidebar or content page may even give you A/B insights.
@acpmasquerade Good points. Did you try it out on mobile? Of course, most of our usage is there, the experience can't be changed so much, unless you have suggestions.
Try checking this out on your phone - https://story.mapme.com/obama-s-...
Or embedded in a post http://www.irishtimes.com/news/p...
Great work, Ben and the team! It's really exciting to see the product evolution.
The popularity of maps is definitely on the rise, first of all due to a shift in the way we consume information today (more visual, and it's % is growing annually).
Are you planning to organize all the stories (as their number will grow) for easier discovery? Or you plan to only provide the mapping tool, not the content discovery.
(as an example, I jumped to one of the stories provided as an example, and didn't find where to go next, to see another or similar story).
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