How to Publish and Share a Story Map

Once you have finished your story map and provided a featured image and description for link viewers, publish your story map to share it with the world.

In the story map editor, click “Publish” to make your story map visible to anyone with the link.

Story maps can also be published from the story map dashboard. Any editor can publish a story map.

cursor poised over the "publish" button in a story map about soil

Sharing a published story map

Click the “Share” button in your story map dashboard, the right-hand sider bar in the story map editor, or on the published story map to share your story map. Clicking the “share” button opens the share window.

Share button

Direct share: Choose start email or create a post in WhatsApp or Facebook.

Link to share: Copy a URL to share with your audience on your platform of choice.

Copy embed: Copy HTML code so your audience can view your published story map in your own website. Viewers will have the option view the full screen map.

The Share dialog window with social media options, copy link, and copy embed code

Updating a story map

If you edit your story map after publishing, those changes will be saved as a draft. Click “Publish” again to release draft changes.