> story maps (which is an ESRI trademarked product)
For the curious, given the phrase's use various settings, the trademarks are "Story Map Basic, Story Map Cascade, Story Map Crowdsource, Story Map Journal, Story Map Shortlist, Story Map Spyglass, Story Map Swipe, Story Map Series, Story Map Tour".
> it takes a lot of time to write the damn content
Indeed. One can imagine infrastructure and tooling to make it easier at scale, or even to enable broad collaboration, but fundable project scope is so much narrower.
A related challenge is when site preservation, and neighbor relations and access, depend on location obscurity (I'm in Boston). That doesn't mesh well with "immersive field trip on the web" and "see geology near you - a national field trip wiki".
> a lot of cool things that can be done within webmaps or similar interfaces
Nod. Especially if XR provides an infrastructure for integrated geolocated content. "Roadside geology" guides might become more like current leaf identification apps - "point at leaf, get story of tree" become "point at rock or rock face, get story of continents". Hmm, neat, there's a bunch of current research on ML rock type identification, even with mobile nets.
> story maps (which is an ESRI trademarked product)
For the curious, given the phrase's use various settings, the trademarks are "Story Map Basic, Story Map Cascade, Story Map Crowdsource, Story Map Journal, Story Map Shortlist, Story Map Spyglass, Story Map Swipe, Story Map Series, Story Map Tour".
> it takes a lot of time to write the damn content
Indeed. One can imagine infrastructure and tooling to make it easier at scale, or even to enable broad collaboration, but fundable project scope is so much narrower.
A related challenge is when site preservation, and neighbor relations and access, depend on location obscurity (I'm in Boston). That doesn't mesh well with "immersive field trip on the web" and "see geology near you - a national field trip wiki".
> a lot of cool things that can be done within webmaps or similar interfaces
Nod. Especially if XR provides an infrastructure for integrated geolocated content. "Roadside geology" guides might become more like current leaf identification apps - "point at leaf, get story of tree" become "point at rock or rock face, get story of continents". Hmm, neat, there's a bunch of current research on ML rock type identification, even with mobile nets.