What is the added value of using cartographic animation?

* Animation offers the user the opportunity to see and query changes.

* Changes in spatial pattern by changes in components of spatial data, or changes in viewpoints or changes in graphic design.

* Animation offer better insights to mapped phenomena.

Cartographic animation

Depiction of change over time.
* Animation is about change , change in spatial data
* Components of Location, Attribute and Time
* Temporal animation is used to display time in a temporal sequence
* Non-temporal animation is used to explain spatial relations by representing individual map images in a sequence that is not related to time.

What is Multimedia Cartography?

according to my lecturer note: assoc.prof.faridah md yusof;

Multimedia cartography is

The explosive development of interactive multimedia products on CD-ROM and the Internet, via the WWW, has generated immense interest in this field.
Multimedia cartography uses interactive web/CD-ROM and animated computer software to present mapping information. These media are used to store, develop and produce mapping products, for example, Internet telephone/street directories, tourist guides and animated street maps used in car GPS, as well as more conventional mapping products such as topographic maps.