1.2.3. Animated Map Types

Animation Types

We mainly distinguish between non-temporal and temporal animations. Temporal animations show changings with a temporal aspect and non-temporal animations show the changing of an attribute. Both of these animation types are implemented into animated maps.

Animated Map Types

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

• Emphasising locations: Highlights the existence of a phenomenon at a particular location (DiBiase et al. 1992).

• Emphasising attributes: Highlights attributes or relationships among attributes (e.g. traffic accident animation, in which symbol duration was combined with symbol size to indicate severity of accidents at an intersection) (DiBiase et al. 1992). This example doesn't work properly in Firefox.

• Visualising change
  • Temporal change: Visualising chronological change over time in the position or attributes of geographical phenomena from a constant viewpoint (DiBiase et al. 1992).
  • Attribute change: Change in position of an object in attribute space. The analyst can choose stratetic subsets of time-series sequences (brushing) and can alter the order (recordering) and rhythm (pacing) of sequences (DiBiase et al. 1992).
  • Spatial change: A sequence of views of a static surface or volume in which the viewpoint of the observer changes gradually (DiBiase et al. 1992).

What type of change (temporal, attribute, spatial) is visualised in the example above? (Click here for more information)

What type of change (temporal, attribute, spatial) is visualised in the example above? (Click here for more information)

What type of change (temporal, attribute, spatial) is visualised in the example above? (Click here for more information)