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 * Web pages and articles with or about interative and animated cartography.**


 * These are some __web pages__ with interactive and animated maps. Add your favorites below.**

[|**http://www.uselectionatlas.org/**] **-** if anybody is interested in ever making election maps there are tons of great election data starting back in 1789 on that website. [posted by Heather]

[|Social Explorer]- One of our favorites. It is a great source of historic census data, allowing you to download in .xls. It also has a nice little animation function, allowing you to make frames of animation and then play it. [posted by patg]

[|Geostat Center: Historic Census Browser] - Hosted by the University of Virginia. An interative site with loads of data. It goes back to the 1790 census! One of the few interactive data browsers that acutally allows you to create ratio level data (important for choropleth mapping). [posted by patg]

[|Multimap] - Europe's most popular interactive, online mapping service. Very similar to [|Google maps] or [|MapQuest]. This site allows you to search the UK, Europe, or even the world. For some parts of th world it has an interesting air photo function which makes use of transparent layers. You can even buy maps and air photos directly from the site. Play with it, you'll like it. [posted by patg]

http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/nv/nv.html - A sub-section of [|www.ghosttowns.com] with information on Nevada's many ghost towns. The site use a clickable interactive map which helps you to narrow your search by first selecting a county in the state and then a town. Once a town is selected you will be directed to a page with information all about that town, or what it use to be anyway. Great data, if you're into that sort of thing. [posted by Jason]

[|A south pole ozone animation]- is a great way to better understand current global warming trends. This animation is about 45 seconds long and gives you an idea of how the hole in the stratospheric layer has expanded. The break down of the stratospheric layer occurs when certain chemical products release chlorine atoms into the upper atomsphere. (For more information see Elemental Geosystems by Robert W. Christopherson, pg 58, 2007). Better known as Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) a single Chlorine atom can decompose over 100,000 ozone molecules alone. Over 24 million tons of CFCs have been released into the atomsphere worldwide. Also see http://www.epa.gov/ozone/index.html for more information. [posted by nmolina]

[|Animated maps] come in all shapes and sizes. This site has some really cool animated maps that reflect things like population growth from 1950-2050 among other things, check it out there are a couple of crazy ones. [posted by nmolina]

GIS kids take note, [|The GIS Jobs Clearinghouse] provides this interactive map (http://www.gjc.org/map.html), which is designed to announce world wide job opportunities in GIS. Powered by Google maps, you should find this map's functionality thorough and its usability friendly. [posted by Brett]

Alright, check out this interactive map http://homeless.cartifact.com/. This site provides an interactive map pertaining to the population change of homeless people within a specific timeframe in the Los Angeles, California area. On a side note, if you are unable to pull up "cartifact" on internet explorer, you can try using Mozilla Firefox.lnk .[posted by Gretchen]

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/ National Geographics interactive map. Easy to navigate anywhere in the world and contains satelite images, physical features map, as well as a variety of available themed maps. [posted by Rob]

Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869 http://overlandtrails.lib.byu.edu/maps.html has two simple interactive maps. On is flash map to zoom in and move around to follow the route of migration trails. The other is a clickable map that will give you the option to view photos of specific sites related to the trail. Very interesting and informative if you are studying western American history. [posted by Astfgl]

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/shows/vietnam/map.html This PBS interactive map shows the spread of H5N1 avian flu in Asia. You can click on different countries to learn the date of the first reported infection, the number of human cases, and the number of human deaths. [posted by Kimmay]

http://www.interactivemaps.org/ is a site that uses flash tools to help you create your own interactive maps. You can highlight countries or states to which you have been or add pictures or video taken in a particular location. [posted by Kevin M]

[|http://www.animatedatlas.com] This site sells different types of animated atlas's but also allows viewers to preview these wonderful and exciting maps. Many of these animated maps are on the topic of United States History. Yeah!


 * The following __articles__ talk about interactive and animated cartography.**

[|Interactive an Animated Cartography] - an online version of Michael Peterson's class/book on the subject. A little dated, but a great reasource, and a good place to start with an investigation of this subject in acedemic cartography. [posted by patg]

[|Time-Series Animation Techniques for Visualizing Urban Growth] - an older paper on the subject. A good one 'though. Check out the embeded animations, and be sure to look at the references. [posted by patg]

[|Cartographic Animation in Three Dimensions: Experimenting with the Scene Graph] - a cool little paper (.pdf) on the use of animation to explore three dimensional environments. One of a host of them to come out of PSU. [posted by patg]

[|Interactive Maps for Visual Data Exploration]- This is an article about a software program called Descartes that is an interactive and animated cartography package. It has a lot of good examples [posted by adamv]

http://www.geography.wisc.edu/~harrower/pdf/Animation_History.pdf "A Look at the History and Future of Animated Maps" - In this paper Harrower argues that animated maps benefit geospatial exploration and understanding by offering a new way of conveying geographic information. [posted by Kimmay]


 * Assessing the Effectiveness of Dynamic Symbols in Cartographic Communication** [[file:assessing the effectiveness of dynamic symbols in cartographic communication.pdf]] - This one is well worth the read. A research article which investigates the use of animation with a focus on 'visual variables'. [posted by patg]


 * Cartographic Animation and Legends for Temporal Maps: Exploration and or Interaction [[file:Kraak_etal_97.pdf]]** - a draft article by Meno Kraak (please do not distribute). This one explores legend design strategies for animated cartography. [posted by patg]


 * Interactivity Types in Geographic Visualization** [[file:interactivitiy_types_of.pdf]] - another one from my archives. A discussion on the types of interactivity associated with modern maps. It is missing the figures, but the typology established is great. [posted by patg]

http://maps.unomaha.edu/AnimArt/article.html - This is a good online paper that explains in some detail about "Non-Temporal Applications of Cartographic Animation". [posted by heather]

http://www1.elsevier.com/homepage/sad/cageo/cgvis/acevedo/acevedo.htm - A good article about using animation to visualize urban growth. [posted by Jason]

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1570344 - This is a real intense site about research conducted to determine the effectiveness of spatio-temporal maps (animation) in exploring geospatial structures encompassing disease, urban and census mapping. [posted by Cole]

[|The psychological aspect] of interactive maps. this article appears a bit complex but is worth the read. There are a number of animated map techniques to consider in this article. [posted by Nathan]

A paper documenting the history and future of animation cartography. [posted by Brett]

I found many animated maps concerning weather mapping and climate systems. Some of my favorites are: [|http://www.cpc.noaa.gov], http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/ , [|http://www.weather.gov.] There are many more dealing with this subject, but I found these three usually worked the best. [Mike Freeman]

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/ This is a cool website for interactive maps. There are all kinds of layers and themes to check out. The "more theme maps" is really cool. [posted by Dustin Nelson]

http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/W/W98/W98-0214.pdf. This paper looks at the fact that all humans think spatially whether or not we can see. It outlines the mapping options for the sight impaired [posted by Rob]

http://www.humboldt.edu/~kosmos/Pages/416gallery.shtml - This website shows what students at Humboldt State University are doing with animated maps.[posted by JayOgraphy]

Trends in Internet Map Use http://maps.unomaha.edu/MP/Articles/Sweden.pdf This is a study of the how the interent has changed the types of maps available and their distribution. [posted by Astfgl]

Visualization and geographic information system integration: what are the needs and the requirements, if any? [|http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=951087.951166&dl=portal&dl=ACM&type=series&idx=951087&part=Proceedings&WantType=Proceedings&title=IEEE Visualization] This article is concerned with the use of GIS and it's applications in cartography. [posted by Kevin M]

Title: A Comparison of Animated Maps with Static Small-Multiple Maps for Visually Identifying Space-Time Clusters. http://0-www.ingentaconnect.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/search/article?title=A+Comparison+of+Animated+Maps+with+Static&title_type=tka&year_from=1998&year_to=2007&database=1&pageSize=20&index=1 This particular scholarly journal discusses how map reader's understand or helps explain map readers' ability to identify clusters. [posted by Gretchen]

Great animated maps of wars and religions...[|Maps of War] [posted by krock]

National Geographics interactive maps. http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/ good interactive maps. [posted by MIke Freeman]