Terrastories Support Materials
  • Introduction
  • OVERVIEW
    • About Terrastories
      • How Terrastories is being used
    • FAQs
    • Getting started
    • Terrastories demo
  • USING TERRASTORIES
    • Exploring the Terrastories main interface
    • Using the Terrastories member dashboard
      • Exploring and creating stories, speakers, and places
      • Customizing your community theme
      • Setting up users and roles
      • Setting up an Explore Terrastories view for your community
      • Modifying map settings
      • Importing data
  • EXPLORE TERRASTORIES
    • What is Explore Terrastories?
    • Exploring the Explore Terrastories interface
    • Setting up Explore Terrastories for your community
  • Operating Terrastories Offline
    • Operating an offline Terrastories "Field Kit"
    • Preparing offline map packages
  • SETTING UP A TERRASTORIES SERVER
    • Hosting environments
      • 🌐 Hosting Terrastories online
      • 🛖 Hosting Terrastories offline as a "Field Kit"
        • Advanced Setup
      • 🍫 Hosting Terrastories on Kakawa (Earth Defenders Toolkit Offline)
    • Navigating the Super Admin dashboard
    • Setting up an Explore Terrastories server
  • MISCELLANEOUS
    • Support
    • Troubleshooting
      • Offline map tiles are not showing up
      • Resetting passwords (using the Rails console)
      • Saving and printing Terrastories reference materials
    • Translating Terrastories
    • Additional resources and references
    • For developers
  • Terrastories website
  • our.terrastories.app
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  1. EXPLORE TERRASTORIES

Exploring the Explore Terrastories interface

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Last updated 1 year ago

The welcome interface for Explore Terrastories allows the user to browse and search for any community that has opted in to sharing their content with a greater public. You can either browse the list or search for the name of a community. You can also select a language on the top right of the window.

Once a community has been selected, you will view their map (without needing to log in!)

Note: Explore Terrastories shows the same default basemap for all communities. This is done in order to protect any sensitive information that may be added to a community's custom map. In the future, we will make it possible for communities to select their own custom map for their Explore Terrastories view.

The Explore Terrastories interface offers a much streamlined and improved over what is offered in Exploring the Terrastories main interface, and eventually we will adapt the main Terrastories interface to use the new framework and design of Explore Terrastories. That said, much of the functionality is the same, with a few differences:

The main sidebar now shows a more truncated, streamlined version of the content. Clicking on a story will open the full details of the story, with a much improved layout:

Information about Places now opens in the sidebar, too, giving users the ability to add more more information which previously was only shown in the popup on the map.

You can also filter Places using the dropdowns:

It is now possible to expand the image in the Place popup on the map, to view it in a higher resolution:

You can add multiple results to your filter in the secondary sidebar:

Lastly, you can toggle between communities! Once you have selected a community in the Welcome screen, you can then switch to a different community using the "Switch Communities" link in the bottom left of the sidebar: