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\"\"<\/a>We on the Story Maps team tend toward the idealistic; thus, many of the stories we produce have to do with important issues and events. But once in a while we like to take a break and do something blatantly superficial and, we hope, purely entertaining. Halloween provides the ideal excuse for meaningless but enjoyable storytelling. Last year we located and described a selection of graveyards around the world<\/a>; this year we decided to find places with names that are appropriate to the season. Thus our story, Thirteen Spooky Halloween Haunts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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To get started, I used the ArcGIS Online gazetteer and entered search terms such as “ghost” and “murder” and found several promising locations. (Fact: No U.S. non-commercial location seems to have “Witch” in its name.)\u00a0A Google search turned up a blog post listing\u00a066 scarily-named towns and cities<\/a>. After a good bit of web exploring I found a dozen places that had 1) interesting names; 2) a good story; and 3) an image that I could use for the story map. It was immediately obvious that 13 would be a more appropriate number of locations. I’m proud to say that as a child I attended Gnaw Bone Camp in Gnaw Bone, Indiana. It might be a bit of a stretch to consider that moniker Halloween-appropriate, but I decided to go for it.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia proved, as always, to be a good source of preliminary information. For more serious stories we much prefer to go to more authoritative sources, but with this more informal topic I relaxed my scruples a bit. Our team does, however, take care to use images which explicitly allow use via Creative Commons licenses. So when I did a Google images search, I filtered for non-copyrighted images. Tip:<\/strong>\u00a0When you’re doing a Google image search, click “Settings”, then choose “Advanced search”. Among the options you’ll see is an “image rights” dropdown, which gives you a variety of choices. We also like to credit our photos\u2014even ones that permit free use.<\/p>\n

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Murder Creek before and after Photoshopping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wanted to give a creepy, Halloween feel to the story’s images, so I used Photoshop and various image filters and adjustments to create the weird purple-and-magenta look.<\/p>\n

Then, because I have the good fortune to be on the Story Maps team, I turned to colleague and developer Lee Bock, who poured my content into the prototype he has created of our upcoming, redesigned Story Map Tour app. We did a little additional finessing to turn titles pink and image panel background magenta. It’s amazing how little touches like these can make a story map really sing (or scream, in this case). Stay tuned: in December (we hope) or early 2018 we’ll be releasing the new Map Tour in beta form. We think you’ll like it.<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":7221,"user_firstname":"Allen","user_lastname":"Carroll","nickname":"Allen Carroll","user_nicename":"allencarroll","display_name":"Allen Carroll","user_email":"ACarroll@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:19:28","user_description":"Allen founded the story maps team at Esri. 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