New Animating Big Information On Maps

CartoDB's Torque allows developers to homecoming large, time-series information on a map inwards the client. The library effectively provides a elementary method to animate large amounts of information on a map.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 expert demonstration of Torque inwards activity is this Amsterdam: Fire Engine Callouts map. The map uses the Torque library to animate 62,415 burn downwards brigade call-outs inwards Amsterdam betwixt Jan 2006 together with September 2010.

Another superb illustration of a Torque driven map is the amazing Navy of WWI animated visualization. This visualization maps 1 i K m WWI Royal Navy locations from earlier the outbreak of World War I until 1925.


The Torque library was too used to practise a fascinating animated map showing i seagull's movements over ii months. LifeWatch compressed ii months of information into 120 seconds to animate the seagull's movements inwards together with some Zeebrugge inwards Belgium.

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