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Mapme Stories — Tell stunning stories through maps
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@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'
Great work Ben and the rest of the team! What inspired you to create a powerful story telling tool with your platform?
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.
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).
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!
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...
#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...
I'm big fun Mapme and it's so great to hear about your new product! Looking forward to make my own special map :)
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...
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... 😊
Very cool. Would love it if you made making maps even faster / easier by pre-filling Description / URL / Images with Google Maps info once I select the address. Then give the user the option to confirm or edit.
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 :)
Great idea! I have used custom Google Maps extensively in the past but the discovery of others' maps as a starting point is definitely lacking there.
Have you considered making the input of places into map easier? Not sure if this applies to other use cases but mine generally revolves around trip planning, and the one-by-one lengthy process (or at least it feels like one) of entering each place causes me to switch to using a word editor so I can focus on quick collection of places I am interested in, and then when I am done and if feeling really motivated, I go through the effort of inputting the places into a custom map. It would be really awesome if I could just copy/paste from email/doc/text or simply just free form write into your service, and your service automatically auto-resolved the places in the text and created a custom map out of it.
@rich_p1 Yep our other product is perfect for that - http://mapme.com/classic
looks cool. would be great to have a granular step by step walking guide for "mini maps"?
This is super cool, love the idea of stories around locations! This specific story looks really good - https://story.mapme.com/hummus-e... :)
Big fan of Mapme, and have enjoyed using the Story format so far! Looking forward to seeing where you take the product next.
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
@omritoppoldog Thanks! Yeah, agreed, we'll do social pulling in future.
@benln @mapme Awesome product. Would love to see a Real Estate play where you integrated mapme with a the realtors CRM creating on-demand, custom listing maps for each client. Think: A map of NYC with images, videos, listing info, ect.
Check out loftey.com - a real estate start-up that would be a great partner.
@dewey_m_hastrich One step ahead 🙌🏻 https://mapme.com/solutions/real...
@benln congrats. We've been using mapme stories for a while now but with a slight twist. We use it as a directory of sorts for existing/prospective users to locate our monthly events. I'd love to see an address/zip search bar to quickly pinpoint events nearby.
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