Spatly for journalists
A place-based story lives or dies on whether the reader can see the place. Spatly gives a newsroom a way to turn a dataset into a scroll-driven map story: the map stays fixed while the reader scrolls the reporting, and each chapter flies to the moment it describes. The reader watches the fault line, the flood extent or the flight path grow as they read.
You do not need a developer for the first story. Drop a GeoJSON or a CSV, set a camera and a filter per chapter, and publish a link or an embed that drops into your CMS. Because a live source keeps refreshing, an election-night or disaster map updates itself while it sits on the homepage. Sourcing and licence sit on the page, so the provenance travels with the story. The example below is a real published Spatly story on the 2023 Kahramanmaraş sequence.
Kahramanmaraş 2023, a six-chapter story on the aftershock sequence. A real published Spatly surface, not a screenshot.
Three things this team ships with Spatly
A scrollytelling explainer
Turn the dataset behind a piece into a scroll story where the map answers each paragraph, published as an embed in your article.
A live event map
Bind a public feed and let an election, storm or quake map refresh on its own on the homepage, with an as-of stamp readers can trust.
A portable insight card
Ship a compact Insight Container into a newsletter or a partner site that expands into the full map on click.
Spatly for journalists.
Start from a basemap and a file, or open a story template and take it apart. No credit card to publish your first surface.
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