This one is pretty cool: https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/xythoswfs/webview/_xy-11704186_1?stk=1F2B268E1C6B509
There's of course a ton of KML time animations that work in Earth. I particularly like: http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/so432web/projects/battle_of_bulge.kmz http://www.gelib.com/us-statehood.htm 2009/2/13 Chris Goad <[email protected]>: >>Returning to the topic at hand. I question if animation is necessary to >> convey temporal dimensions in a data set. >Temporal data can be presented >> as a series of small multiples, a la Tufte: > Aggregating temporal variation into a static display involves a kind of > abstraction missing from animation, and that abstraction often > allows perception of temporal structure which would not be apparent from > passing moments. The Minard illustration of the Napoleon's Russian > campaign cited by Tufte ( http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters ) is a > famous example. The same point applies to any simple graph of a quantity > over time with time displayed on one axis. But often the quantity of data > is excessive or the means for abstraction are not available (this applies > for the most part to ordinary life as lived!). Here's an example that I > worked on a few years ago where a slider drives a variety of different kinds > of information display, which individually might be subject to temporal > abstraction of some kind, but not collectively. > > > http://www.lewisandclarknw.com/map/flashindex.html > > > > (Please forgive mentioning my own work). > > -- Chris > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: sophia parafina > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:18 AM > Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Cool Temporal Animations > Returning to the topic at hand. I question if animation is necessary to > convey temporal dimensions in a data set. Temporal data can be presented as > a series of small multiples, a la Tufte: > > http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2005/12/images/1severe-storm-animation.gif > > Alternatively, something as simple as making use of a browser's scroll bar > can also convey temporal changes: > > http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/we_are_all_gonna_die/slider.html > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:48 AM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM, sophia parafina <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > may I suggest chrononanism as a more mellifluous term? >> >> >> What brilliance and mellifluent. Chrononanism, goes hand over fist >> with temporiapism. Ahh... the ailments that we men suffer at the alter >> of geospatiotemporal. >> >> >> > >> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Joshua Lieberman <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Time animations can be fun, but never seem to me as useful in the end >> >> as >> >> ways of including time as a dimension, the slider, the timeline, or the >> >> timesection (time along one axis, an aggregate spatial dimension such >> >> as a >> >> path or list of places along the other.). >> >> >> >> Hmm... chronobopping? >> >> >> >> --Josh >> >> >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > -- Mano Marks Geo Developer Advocate Google, Inc. [email protected] http://twitter.com/ManoMarks _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
