What are Journeys?

Journeys, formerly known as Routes, tell stories that took place over a series of locations. These could be the narratives of voyages, emigration, adventure – anything, really!

Journeys can be combined with Timelines to tell a story that makes use of spatial and temporal elements.

Journeys can contain Records, Overlays, Trails, Timelines, Collections and even other Journeys.

Before you can create a Journey, you’ll at least need some Records.

They look like this:

Examples:

• Wilhelm Pollak on the Refugee Map. This Journey also uses a Timeline.

Resources:

• Humap & Copyright
• Humap & GDPR
• Different types of user accounts on Humap

Logging in

Go to the home page of the Humap instance you’d like to contribute to and click Explore the Map

• From the map home page, click the plus icon in the top right corner of the information tray
• If you’re not logged in, log in now
• If public signups are enabled, you can create an account
• If signups are not enabled, you’ll need an invitation from the project owner to contribute

• You will be taken to the Contribution home screen

Creating and managing Journeys via the Contribute system

Different maps will have different types of content available to create.

• Click Journey

Introductory page

• You are now on an introductory page. When you’ve read it, click Begin
  • At any point in this process you can save a draft and exit, return to the previous screen, or delete your record

Add a name and description

• Name your Journey in the Title text box and add a description in the box below. This will appear on the preview page for your Journey
• Use the text formatting options to make text pop, and don’t forget to include paragraph breaks if you’re using a lot of text!
• Click Next to move on

Add a cover image

• Drag and drop an image file into the box, or click browse files to select an image from your computer
• Click Next to start adding content to your Journey

Add content

•  Use the search bar to find the items you want to add, or click “more search options” to look at pre-existing categories, such as location or topic
• You can also choose to search for content that you have uploaded, by clicking the “show only your content” switch
• For more specific subtopics, click the downwards arrow and select the subtopic you wish to find content about
• Items will be ordered according to date
• Click Next when you’re done

Draw a route line

• A route will autogenerate between the content pins in direct, straight lines.

• You can then click and drag the line in order to customise the route

Final step

• and there we go! From this screen you can either delete this Journey, save as draft and exit, go back, or publish the Journey