I've enjoyed the videos of Hans Rosling, who uses animated scatter plots to give insight into global trends. These could be described as 'interactive animations' although most of the examples use data attributes for the axes, rather that map coordinates.
http://www.gapminder.org/ http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html Of course, part of the appeal is watching someone who is really excited about statistics. - Tyler Joshua Lieberman 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 > > On Feb 13, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Sean Gorman wrote: > >> Thanks - I really like the example with the Ushahidi data. The >> Post's TimeSpace has some great functionality, but seems a bit >> overwhelming visually. The more we look at temporal aspects - seems >> there are almost as many dimensions as spatial. May have to look >> into temporal wanking. Does not really roll of the tongue like >> Geowanking though. >> >> FortiusOne Inc, >> 2200 Wilson Blvd. suite 307 >> Arlington, VA 22201 >> cell - 202-321-3914 >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "pamela fox" <[email protected]> >> To: "Sean Gorman" <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:25:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada >> Eastern >> Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Cool Temporal Animations >> >> Hey Sean-- Really cool, I like cabspotting alot. >> >> 2 other links that aren't quite animation but are temporal >> visualizations: >> TimeMap: >> http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/01/timemap-helping-you-add-4th-dimension.html >> >> >> TimeSpace: http://specials.washingtonpost.com/timespace/election/ >> >> Time..the next dimension in mapping :) >> >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:09 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. >>> >>> Many Thanks, >>> sean >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
