Visualising geographic information above and beyond the normal export from your favorite GIS package is often left as a mere after thought. We are just starting to look into using Adobe After Effects to liven up a slightly dry dataset – UK Population represented as a point per 200 people.

Its early days and we were unsure to publish this one or not but that’s what a blog is all about so below is our first go at After Effects using lights to get across a picture of Britain’s population:

Add in some camera tracking, smooth out the moment, provide some labels beyond the standard iMovie fare and we might be onto something… (?) – The movie is best viewed fullscreen.

The slightly misjudged music is by a rather good unsigned band – Lemonade Joe.

Visualising geographic information above and beyond the normal export from your favorite GIS package is often left as a mere after thought. We are just starting to look into using Adobe After Effects to liven up a slightly dry dataset – UK Population represented as a point per 200 people.

Its early days and we were unsure to publish this one or not but that’s what a blog is all about so below is our first go at After Effects using lights to get across a picture of Britain’s population:

Add in some camera tracking, smooth out the moment, provide some labels beyond the standard iMovie fare and we might be onto something… (?) – The movie is best viewed fullscreen.

The slightly misjudged music is by a rather good unsigned band – Lemonade Joe.