From user-friendly mobile apps like Travelboast and TravelAnimator to web-based tools like Pictramap and advanced software like SmartSHOW 3D, there’s an option for everyone. Each tool offers unique ...

The Youtube channel of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center posted an animated map showing every recorded earthquake and tsunami in sequence as they occurred from January 1, 1901, through December 31, ...

Animated map showing Greenland and the Arctic sea routes. Navigable only during the summer sea-ice melt season, they are now ...

Earth is not alone, and a stunning new animation created using NASA data beautifully illustrates that point. There may be trillions of other planets in our galaxy, the Milky Way (which itself is one ...

In this, my first Visualization Deconstructed post, I'm expanding the scope to examine one of the most popular contemporary visualization techniques: animation of geospatial data over time. The beauty ...

A new animated map, Breathing City, beautifully visualizes the cliché of New York as the “city that never sleeps.” The map displays a 24-hour cycle of Manhattan’s populations at work and home. The ...

One of the best known and commonly used world maps, the Mercator Projection, depicts Greenland and Africa as being roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is 14 times larger. This clever animation ...

Animation of a Sentinel-2 satellite image (taken on January 7, 2026) showing the location of a deadly train collision in ...