Cartographic Animation

Cartographic Animation, or animated map, is a map that will have some type of video or other movement involved in it.  The animation can be to demonstrate something, or to convey a current situation.  A prime example of a cartographic animation is a doplar radar.  The animated map shows the weather coming through in a doplar radar.  This example is showing the United States population boom from 1910 to 2000.  Each white dot represents 10,000 ctitizens.

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