Scandinavian Expedition Memory Map

Katterjakk, Sweden

Norway

By Elisa Mirkil
backpacking, scrollytelling, illustration, expedition

My final project is a map of a backpacking expedition I did in the arctic circle in Scandinavia this summer. I have the data for this trip in an analog map (campsites, trails, etc), and I incorporated notes and drawings from my journals and some photo

In August 2018 I went on a 13-day backpacking expedition in the Arctic Circle in Norway and Sweden with 9 other people. During that time I only had analogue recording devices (pen and paper), and a paper map used for navigating and campsite locating. It was an awesome experience, and I wanted to create an interactive map to share it.

My data source was the map with hiking routes and campsites marked. I digitized these by recording the UTM coordinates and converting them to Latitude and Longitude. I also used QGIS to create polylines between the points that reflected our hiking route.

Most of my emphasis was in creating a storytelling interaction that included photos, animated drawings, and text, that were connected to certain locations. I used Jack Dougherty’s Leaflet-Storymap as a framework for my scroll interaction, which was super helpful to me as a novice coder.