Good points on the utility of temporal animation. I look at it as the "spinny globe" of temporal functionality. It gets people to the curb, and then they might be interested in doing temporal analysis and other such useful things.
FortiusOne Inc, 2200 Wilson Blvd. suite 307 Arlington, VA 22201 cell - 202-321-3914 ----- Original Message ----- From: "P Kishor" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 11:22:07 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Cool Temporal Animations On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi - > > I was doing a bit of work to try and catalog the best temporal animation > approaches for interactive maps. I'm sure there is lots of stuff I'm missing > and thought folks might have some suggestions or personal favorites: > > To get it started a few of my own: > > http://cabspotting.org/ > http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/wild-britain/migratingbirds.shtml > (2:30 on th3e video) > http://hindsight.trulia.com/map/ > http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/ > http://www.obleek.com/iraq/ > http://homeless.cartifact.com/ > > Happy to aggregate and post back to the list with the final catalog. > there is some really nice (looking) work by Columbia U's Spatial Information Design Lab. Check out http://www.spatialinformationdesignlab.org/projects.php I do wonder though, in the same vein as Josh Lieberman's thought, how useful these animations are. They are definitely very beautiful to look at. I myself have been making some, and they seem to be very effective in a presentation, particularly to short-attention-span-policy-people, but they may not be very useful as analytical tools. Nevertheless, I don't intend to take away from the beauty of the well made animations and their ability to explain complex phenomena in an easy to understand way. -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ Sent from: Madison Wisconsin United States. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
