Mapping diplomacy: Visual storytelling for global impact
summary
Six years of practice condensed into concrete techniques: interactive scrollytelling built with Mapbox GL JS and Mapbox basemaps, integrated full‑motion video via Adobe After Effects GeoLayers, and 3D globe projections and fill extrusions for immersive scenes like the Red Sea and a transatlantic drug‑trade explainer. Code is published on GitHub, the small team is two people, a scrollytelling piece outperforms its report by ~70% in views, and LLMs as a "cheat code" speed prototyping while requiring developer know‑how.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 1:07Six years of mapping progress
- 3:37Full motion video benefits
- 6:27Modern Mapbox storytelling tools
- 8:53Scrolltelling and interactive maps
- 11:49Toolkit and open-source sharing
- 13:35Q&A with Marina begins
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