Skip to content

Sharing a storymap

--

After creating a storymap in GeoHub, it can be shared with other people by the following ways:

  • Share URL
  • Embed a storymap in a website

Open a storymap page

An example of a storymap page
Figure 1: An example of a storymap page

--

Firstly, open a storymap page, then click SHARE LINKS tab which has all necessary links for the storymap.

Share a URL

--

You can copy the first link Copy this link to share the storymap by clicking COPY button to your clip board.

--

Then, you can just simply copy and paste to email, SNS, Whatsapp, etc for sharing the storymap to your colleagues and friends.

SHARE LINKS tab of a storymap
Figure 2: SHARE LINKS tab of a storymap

Embed storymap in your website

--

However, you might want to embed your storymap in your website in some circumstances.

In the SHARE LINKS tab, you can copy a URL from Copy this link to embed the storymap to your website to your clipboard.

--

This URL has an optional parameter of ?embed=true which can show a storymap without UNDP header and footer.

https://geohub.data.undp.org/storymaps/0c6e778e-fbfe-4314-813e-f6367570db85/viewer?embed=true

--

This mode can be suitable for embeding on a website.

You can use this URL with iframe to embed the storymap to your website.

--

The below code snippet is an example of how to use iframe tag.

<iframe
  id="storymapIframe"
  title="Human Development Index (HDI) - Globe mode Demo"
  width="100%"
  height="400"
  src="https://geohub.data.undp.org/storymaps/0c6e778e-fbfe-4314-813e-f6367570db85/viewer?embed=true"
>
</iframe>

The iframe code snippet is also available to copy from Copy this code snippet to your website to embed the storymap under SHARE LINK tab.

--

Embed storymap can look like the below demo.

--

Please also refer the official documentation of iframe at mdn web docs.