Orig request: Does anyone have any advice on putting together an animated time series? i would like to present data on the spread og of an epidemic across space and time.
Summary: I received 15 responses with most stating basically the same advice,"Making a map for each frame and constructing animated GIFs is probably your best bet". I had done this a few years ago and had just figured that there had to be an easier way by now. I had to produce an animation of 82 time periods and I only had 2 days to do it. I ended up doing just this and using MapBasic to automate the creation of 82 tables and creation of 2 thematic maps. I could not figure out how to automate the layout creation and export to gif so I justed grunted through this manually. Thx for taking the time to email me. Below are other advice (links) that may help facilitate this process: Stan Lester ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: We have developed internal functionality which will generate series of Mapinfo maps based upon time and space changes in a database and which then generates animated movie files (.avi) for traffic flows on roads and similar applications.....if you have a budget for doing your project, give me some more details and I can give you a quote. Animation Software Links: There is a statistical visualization package called AVS (Advanced Visual Systems at http://www.avs.com/) that at the time, did some of this with some really basic maps. www.mitchellgeo.com http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/cmrc/ http://www.imagespro.com/programs/gifanim/ http://www.dbxgeomatics.com/svg.asp http://www.landxml.com/ GIS Resource links: http://www.research.umbc.edu/~roswell/mipage.html http://hello.to/healthgeo I appreciate all your help, Tim _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
