• 1. Animation and Interactivity
  • 1.1. Animation
  • 1.2. Animation and Cartography
    • 1.2.1. Why Animation in Maps?
    • 1.2.2. History of Animated Maps
    • 1.2.3. Animated Map Types
    • 1.2.4. Self Assessment
    • 1.2.5. Unit-Summary
  • 1.3. Interactivity
  • 1.4. Interactivity and Cartography
  • 1.5. Summary
  • 1.6. Glossary
  • 1.7. Bibliography
  • 1.8. Metadata

1.2.5. Unit-Summary

Animations in maps can be useful to visualise either dynamic attributes or highlighting for example locations.

The concept of animated maps began already in the 1930s. The first animated map was produced in 1959. A series of maps were put together to form a scene and creating animation through photography tricks.
With the development of computers, animated maps became more popular. But only a few years ago, in the 1990s with the invention of faster, more efficient computers, animated maps became really popular and common.
Today, there are a lot of animated maps, either on the Internet or on commercial applications.

Animations that are implemented in animated maps can be categorised in the following classes:

• Emphasising locations
• Emphasising attributes
• Visualising change
  • Temporal change
  • Attribute change
  • Spatial change

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