Hi Tim, We did quite a few animations last year showing time data. There is one example up on our web site at www.mitchellgeo.com in the map gallery under Life Flight (below the velveeta map). It shows about 24 scenes in an animated GIF each representing one month and showing accumulating data. The set uses several variables via thematic maps to show the progression. The only trick was keeping a handle on the data and map displays since each frame is a seperate map and they need to be consistent and build on each other. I saved them out of MapInfo as JPG image files and patched them together in Corel Photopaint which gives the ability to build and manage (a little bit) animated GIF files. There are many GIF creation programs that can do the same...
This is fairly simplistic in result but gets the point accross. We did some other animation comparing helicopter flights to ambulance routes on the ground using actual time data...i.e. the helicopter flies its track as a little icon and the ambulance drives the road at the same time. It was a dramatic depiction of time savings for trauma patients based on actual cases. We tried this in MapInfo for a while but eventually got help from an animation pro who used some high end animation software - can't recall the name of it (he does rave visuals and TV ads mainly). There are some things you can do in MapInfo with the animation layer - reference the geographic tracker and similar showing your GPS position on a base map 'live'. Making a map for each frame and constructing animated GIFs is probably your best bet. Happy to help walk you through this - just reply privately or call. -Will Mitchell Mitchell Geographics, Inc. Portland, Maine www.mitchellgeo.com 207.879.7769 -------------------------------------------------------- "Timothy M. Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello Listers, > >Does anyone have any advice on putting together an animated time >series? i would like to present data on the spread og of an epidemic >across space and time. > >Thx, > >Tim > > > >_______________________________________________________________________ >List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | >To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and >put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. > _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
