Viral Maps

The Leaflet TimeDimension plug-in allows you lot to animate layers on a Leaflet map inwards a discover of dissimilar ways inwards fellowship to exhibit changes inwards information over time. The examples page includes a discover of dissimilar maps showing how the plug-in tin move used inwards lots of dissimilar ways.

H5N1 novel Oil Spill Simulation provides a non bad demonstration of how the plug-in tin move used to animate a polygon on a Leaflet map. When you lot press play on the map the polygon flows together with grows on the map, form of reminiscent of a virus moving around, equally seen through a microscope.

In this demo map the plug-in is beingness used to imitate the trajectory of a hypothetical crude oil tumble over time. There is something wonderfully organic virtually the resulting animation. The animated polygon characteristic of the plug-in mightiness convey express purpose cases, but I tin run across it beingness useful, especially for mapping pollution over time. Not only inwards the instance of crude oil spills, but too to exhibit the spread of vibrations or air pollution over the flat of 24 hours or a calendar week or whatever other fourth dimension period.