The 7.14 release of Elastic Maps introduces enhanced geospatial capabilities, allowing sysadmins, cartographers, and dashboard designers to tailor maps for richer geodata storytelling. Available on Elastic Cloud and for self-managed setups via Elastic Cloud Enterprise and Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes, Elastic Maps now features simpler configuration and scaling options, particularly through Kubernetes integration, which efficiently manages deployment sizes and scales. Users can customize maps with new drawing tools for geo-annotations and set up geofencing alerts, while dashboards can be configured to update automatically based on map navigation. Additionally, Elastic Maps facilitates easier data visualization with features like no-click and one-click maps in Kibana, enhanced anomaly detection with choropleth maps, and a time slider for temporal data exploration, offering a comprehensive tool for geographic data analysis and presentation.