Cartographic Animation

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http://www.payer.de/thailandchronik/chronik2004c.htm

Cartographic animation is the application of animation to add a temporal component to a map displaying change in some dimension. Change over time is commonly used where depending on how many of frames  can depict change over a period of time. The .gif animation shown above is a cartographic animation of the tsunami that started near Indonesia in 2004 and fanned out. This animation is quick yet shows phenomena that happens in a much longer time scale of hours and days. The animation is easy to understand and repeats so that you can look at different parts of the map when the animation resets. This particular cartographic animation is clean because the animation contains a large amount of frames per second which indicates there was a lot of cartographic data to work with in contrast to other cartographic animations that have a few frames and would resemble a slide show.