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 BerlinEuro 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 GOTTeam 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
@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.
@joantune Nice! Google photos has an awesome feature that create maps with your photos. We want to do social integrations in future, pull from twitter etc.
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@benln@mapme Awesome update guys! love the new background feature!
#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.
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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.
This looks very similar to Eater's 38 and Heatmap lists[1]. Even the pins are nearly identical. I really like this style for map content.
I'm curious if Eater was an inspiration at all for this layout.
http://sf.eater.com/maps/best-ne...
Looks cool, loved the GOT map. If you can link to a drive folder with pictures and have them mapped to this it would be a great way to share trips and memories
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...
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