[OpenLayers-Users] Has anyone tried animation / or how to?

[Mike Adair]

WMS animations is implemented in the MapBuilder project (which uses the 
OpenLayers library).  See:
http://demo.communitymapbuilder.org/demo/mapbuilder/demo/timeSeries/index.html

(one of the WMS servers used by the demo is down, but the animation 
layers are up).

Mike

Jon Blower wrote:
> Hi Levii,
>
> Our OpenLayers-based site (http://www.reading.ac.uk/godiva2) supports
> animation of WMS layers but does so because the WMS in question can
> generate animated GIFs if you give it a time range.  This is not ideal
> because if you want to synchronize some other UI feature with the
> animation (e.g. a time indicator or another animation) you can't
> because you have no control over animation rates etc.
>
> I think the only way to have this synchronization is to do animation
> in javascript but I haven't investigated this in detail.  I'd be
> interested in anything you come up with and perhaps we could work
> together if we end up wanting the same thing?
>
> Cheers, Jon
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Levii Smith" <smithlev at levii.com>
> To: users at openlayers.org
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:23:25 -0400
> Subject: [OpenLayers-Users] Has anyone tried animation / or how to?
>
> Just a thought as I work on this...I'm going to attempt to run an
> animation of WMS layers. I've seen the example of using TIME in
> WMS...has anyone tried animating WMS layers in time (I'm trying to
> loop satellite imagery if you're curious)...any ideas how to do it -
> or how to keep multiple layers in sync while doing it?
>
> //Levii
>
>