[Geowanking] Cool Temporal Animations

[Sean.Gorman at fortiusone.com]

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.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "P Kishor" <punk.kish at gmail.com>
To: geowanking at geowanking.org
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,  <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.
>


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/
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