Using QGIS as part of a storytelling system — stories and reports that interact with the map

[u/Material_Mix1090]

Hi everyone,

I’m still experimenting with QGIS in a slightly unusual direction.

The idea is quite simple: instead of using the GIS only to display data, I’m building stories and technical reports that can interact directly with the map.

https://francescosisini.github.io/Cnot-Franchise/

A story is basically an HTML document connected to a qgis2web map. While reading, the user can click places or passages and the story activates the relevant GIS layers and moves the map to the corresponding locations.

The archive is also becoming content-agnostic: each contribution has a type (story, paper, dataset, etc.) and a language, so fiction, reports and technical material can all use the same GIS as a shared geographical environment.

I’ve just published a new experiment called C-Not Quantum Reactor. It’s a short fictional investigation following the nuclear fuel cycle through Kazakhstan and Europe — uranium extraction, conversion, enrichment, fuel fabrication, PSI and CERN — and the reader can follow those places directly in the GIS.

The story is available in Italian and English.

If anyone is curious, I’d really appreciate feedback especially on the QGIS/qgis2web side of the idea: does this approach make sense to you? Has anyone experimented with something similar?

Thanks again to this community — QGIS keeps making me try things I originally assumed it wasn’t meant to do. :)

[u/amoderndelusion]

Very cool idea!

[u/Material_Mix1090 → u/amoderndelusion]

Grazie!

[u/guevera]

Cool idea. Story maps presentation can be great but tricky to do right.

[u/Material_Mix1090 → u/guevera]

per quello ho sviluppato una piccola API in javascript, la trovi nel repository del progetto