Cartographic Animations

Source: http://map.sdsu.edu/geog104/lecture/unit-10.htm

If you go to the source site listed above you will see on the map an animation that represents the San Diego wildfire. The animation contains six slides which span day zero, October 25th 2003 through day six October 31st 2006. Red and yellow dots appear on the map and move across the landscape, being replaced by brown for the areas that have burned already. Animation allows you to see interactions and movements on normally static maps.