Storymap: BC Parks iNaturalist 2025 Highlights

This is a Shiny storymap to show 2025 highlights from the BC Parks iNaturalist project: https://inaturalist.ca/projects/bc-parks

Credits

• Highlights were gathered and written by Arianne Nickels.
• Featured observations were made by the iNaturalist users credited in the app. Many of these observations were made by the BC Parks iNaturalist field teams, whose observations can be seen here: https://inaturalist.ca/projects/bc-big-summer-teams.
• This app was coded by Katherine Hébert.

App structure

This storymap is a Shiny app created with the package mapgl.

The base map is from Maplibre, with the "satellite" style and "globe" projection.

The app's user interface (UI) and server are in app.R.

The app is structured in several sections, stored in the sections folder. Each section contains a series of featured observations, which are each encoded as a uiser interface and server function.

• Introduction texts are written in: 00_introduction.R
• Transition texts between sections are written in: 00_transitions.R.
• Conclusion texts are written in: 07_info_thankyou.R.

All displayed photos are hosted on iNaturalist.ca, and displayed using their web address (i.e., they are not hosted locally by the app). All credits for these photos are written in the app.

Deployment

• Run deploy.R to deploy the app to the shinyapps.io account. (not yet done)