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I'm interested in doing something like this:

http://hint.fm/wind/gallery/oct-30.js.html

It seems like a tile map, are the tiles animated gifs? If not how can this animation be achieved?

I was thinkimg to use PIL to generate the gifs and serve it up with mapnik/tilestache, but tilestache doesnt seem to support .gif tiles.

Any ideas?

monkut
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If you're open to using Javascript, I'd recommend using the excellent d3 library available here: http://d3js.org/ In particular, it has great support for maps. Check out this example and tell me whether it's similar to what you want to achieve: http://bl.ocks.org/karmi/raw/2366285/

  • pretty, but Im looking for something to animate the tiles, the example you gave is static. – monkut Apr 20 '13 at 08:16
  • No, it's dynamic. Click the autoplay link on the bottom of the page. –  Apr 20 '13 at 08:17
  • ok, i see. Hmmmm, looks like its just flipping color values of polygon objects. I'm trying to figure out something to show directional motion. – monkut Apr 20 '13 at 08:24
  • This could probably be achieved through transitions. Check the link here: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/transition/ –  Apr 20 '13 at 08:38