Take a look at www.directionsmag.com in their gallery for some good examples
of animated GIF maps. This one is the best, by Marc Pelosse --
http://www.directionsmag.com/images/mapgallery/88_lg.gif .
You could use about any thematic type you wish, but the one I used in my old
example was a "dot density" thematic. MapInfo Pro implements their dot
density thematic in an interesting way: as long as you are working in the
same window (all at one session?), the random point placement is generated
from a single seed. That means that whenever you change the values driving
the dots, they will always be drawn in the same order, in the same places.
You can use a tool like Animagic (shareware) at
http://www.rtlsoft.com/animagic/ , or Paint Shop Pro (low-cost, commercial)
at www.jasc.com , to paste all your individual frames into one animated GIF.
Try it out.
Steve Wallace
Contributing Editor
Directions Magazine
http://www.directionsmag.com
- Original Message -
From: "Robert Batenburg" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 04:43 PM
Subject: MI Animated gif maps
Does anyone recall an article outlining the creation of
animated .gif maps using MI output? I thought it was
posted some time ago by Steve Wallace at
http://www.ffbic.com/mapinfo, but the link seems to
be broken.
Thanks,
Rob
Rob Batenburg
GIS Data Management Specialist
Integrated Pest Management
Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre
Agassiz, British Columbia
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