[Geowanking] Cool Temporal Animations

Joshua Lieberman josh at oklieb.net
Fri Feb 13 07:56:47 PST 2009


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.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "pamela fox" <pamela.fox at gmail.com>
> To: "Sean Gorman" <Sean.Gorman at fortiusone.com>
> Cc: geowanking at geowanking.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:25:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada  
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> 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,  <Sean.Gorman at fortiusone.com> 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
>>
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