Esri Story Maps combine maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content to create compelling user experiences. Here we use Story Map Cascade to build a Story Map that guides readers through the history of Zambia relating to its main export and foreign exchange earner, copper.
The Story Map first shows the importance of copper to Zambia and then looks back to the pre-history of copper in Zambia—its use and mining. It highlights archeological sites important to the copper story, then moves forward to discuss the modern “re-discovery” and mining of copper and the main human protagonist whose decisions shaped the future of a copper Zambia.
The middle sections show the location of copper mines, how copper has in past impacted and continues to impact Zambia. The last part grabs headlines from media that show the back-and-forth struggle between the government and private mining companies as Zambia grapples to find the ideal ownership model for the mines.
Story Map Cascade is ideal for telling in-depth stories in a free-form structure that are very easy for your readers to navigate. All they need to do is scroll.
Have a look. Standing on a Copper Foundation Story Map.