Visualizing Multi-Temporal Data with Time Manager

Introduction

This is a 10 minute walk through

Requirements

• TileMill
• QGIS
• Time Manager
• LibreOffice

Getting Started (Vector Data)

• Proceed to data.seattle.gov
• Search "GIS"

Getting Started (Time Manager)

Table 1. Data

Vector Data (Base Map)

Spreadsheet Data

Coming Soon

Video Demo Getting the data Proceed to data.seattle.gov Search and open Seattle Real Time Fire 911 Calls Hover over and click Export Download a copy of this dataset in XLSX format Data preparation Import to Libreoffice or Openoffice or Microsoft Excel LibreOffice Calc/OpenOffice Calc Right click on "datetime" column and proceed to "Format Cells". Find and click "User defined" in "Numbers" tab. Change format to the following: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS Save file in CSV format. Microsoft Excel Right click on "datetime" column and proceed to "Format Cells". Find and click "Custom" in "Numbers" tab. Change format to the following: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS Save file in CSV format.