A map tour mid-scroll — stops, route and live map, no screenshots involved
Write it like an article, publish it like a web page. Journeys combine text, photos and your actual maps into one long, scrolling narrative.
A map tour mid-scroll — stops, route and live map, no screenshots involved
A Journey is the page you make when a map needs explaining — the new detour route, the field season summary, the ten stops worth walking to on Kungsholmen. It's a single scrolling column of text, images and maps, written in a block editor and published as a plain public web page. No slides, no viewer app, no login for readers.
The maps inside are not screenshots. A map block embeds one of your actual web maps — same vector tiles, same rendering engine as the viewer — with per-block layer visibility, a saved viewpoint, and a choice between interactive and static. Around the maps you get ten block types: rich text that can float beside an image, galleries in grid, masonry or carousel, swipe comparisons with a draggable slider, timelines, infographic stat callouts, buttons, separators.
The centerpiece is the map tour: up to 50 stops on a shared map, presented through one of three templates. Story Rail steps a centered reading column through stops beside a route map. Immersive Map goes full-bleed with a floating glass card per stop. Editorial Scroll is a long-form article with a sticky map that tracks your reading position. Click the map to place each pin; the location search fills in the address. The map draws a dashed route between stops and estimates the walk time.
Story Rail, Immersive Map, and Editorial Scroll — a reading rail beside a route map, a full-bleed map with glass stop cards, or a scrolling article with a sticky map that follows you. Same stops, three very different pages.
Each tour stop carries a title, photo or video, category tag and address ("Pipersgatan 1 · Kungsholmen"). Click the map to drop the pin, or search and let the geocoder fill the address in. Dashed route line and walk-time estimates come free.
Map blocks embed your real web maps with layer toggles, a saved viewpoint, four heights, and interactive or static mode. If the source map changes, the journey shows the current version.
Image galleries (grid, masonry or carousel, 2–30 images), swipe blocks comparing two maps or two photos, timelines up to 20 entries, infographic stat callouts. Every caption is rich text — fonts, sizes, colors included.
Six cover layouts with image or video backgrounds. Text color is luminance-checked against the image automatically, a nine-point focal grid controls the crop, and the scrim opacity is a slider, not a fight.
Journeys pull colors, fonts and text styles from your organization's theme library. Update the theme once and published journeys follow — no re-editing fifty pages.
Draft until you say otherwise. Published journeys live at yourorg.orbgis.com with a short link and proper Open Graph tags — paste one in a chat and it shows the cover. The publish step lists every embedded map so nothing ships half-shared.
New journey from blank, or from one of your organization's journey templates. You land in a full-screen editor with a cover and an empty canvas.
Title, subtitle, kicker and byline on the cover. Then text blocks, images and embedded maps in order. Float text beside a photo, pair blocks side by side, cap at 50 blocks.
Pick Story Rail, Immersive Map or Editorial Scroll. Click the map to place each stop's pin — search auto-fills the address — then give every stop a photo, a category and a description.
A floating switcher renders the page at mobile (390), tablet, desktop and wide. Autosave, undo/redo and a reading-time counter run the whole way.
One click puts it on your org's public subdomain, share link included. Readers just get a web page. Flip it back to draft whenever.
No demo call. No sales funnel. Just sign up and start mapping.