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Creating · chapter 3 of 13

Journeys

A walk, ride or roadtrip told on a map from geotagged photos.

The Journey is the form that feels like a small miracle the first time: give it a photo tag, and it builds the walk - every photo carrying that tag becomes a numbered stop, ordered by when it was taken and placed on a real map by its GPS. Readers then travel the route as they scroll.

Photos → stops

  • Tag the photos first. Upload the day's photos with one tag (chalk-cliffs-walk) - most phone photos already carry the time and place invisibly, and Storyus reads both.
  • Create → Journey, type the tag, Build stops. The map draws itself: numbered pins, in walking order.
  • Correct what the camera got wrong. Drag any pin to fix a location; a photo with no GPS at all (an old scan, a screenshot) gets placed by hand - arm it, tap the map, done. Hand-set pins show green.
  • Let the route snap to reality. Travel between stops is guessed from distance and pace, and the route snaps itself onto real paths - UK walks follow the actual footpath network. Change something and the button turns amber; one click re-snaps. (Water legs - the SUP, the canoe - stay honest straight lines.)
the whole flow - about a minute
All four steps, for real: ten photos, one tag, Build - and Publish.
the Journey editor
The Journey editor: the photos-to-stops tag builder, and a coastal map with ten numbered pins along the route
Ten stops along the Seven Sisters, built from a tag - drag any pin, and green means set by hand.

Below the map, each stop is a card: caption it, reorder with the arrows if the telling wants a different order than the clock kept, and set the travel mode where the guess was wrong.

storyus.life/+demos/journeys
The finished journey page: the live map walking with the reader between numbered photo stops
The outcome: readers travel the route as they scroll - distance, time and climb included.
The one habit that makes Journeys effortless: tag at upload time. A day out, one tag, and the map is a two-minute job at the end - it's the single best return on the media chapter's advice.

See a finished one

Oxfordshire, hillfort to hillfort - scroll it to the end and watch the map walk with you. That's the reader's side of everything above.