openearth / bed-stories

Configuration for the stories mode in BlueEarth Data

This repository is used to add stories to the BlueEarth Data Platform

Instructions:

1. Write and publish a story on an online platform, e.g. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories.
2. Create an icon with dimensions 300x280 pixels for the story and give it a human-readable name.
3. Clone / Fetch origin from https://github.com/openearth/bed-stories.
4. Copy the icon you created to the folder bed-stories/images/.
5. Open stories.json in your preferred text editor.
6. Add a new entry at the top of the stories.json file:

    {
    "id": "<insert id>",
    "theme": "<insert theme>", # see below available themes
    "stories": [
      {
        "ID": "<insert aplha-numeric-id>",
        "title": "<insert title for story>",
        "URL": "<insert URL to story published on an online platform>",
        "icon": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openearth/bed-stories/main/images/<insert filename of icon>"
      }
    ]
    },

7. Commit to main and push to origin.
8. Check that everything is as expected in https://blueearthdata.org/stories

The following themes are available

• Flooding
• Coastal Management
• Offshore
• Water availability
• Water quality
• North Sea
• Coastal flood risk
• Small island states

Known issues

• Stories page doesn't scroll.
• Changes may take a while to reflect due to caching - clear cache if necessary.