Visualizing Multi-Temporal Data with Time Manager

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Introduction

This is a 10 minute walk through

Requirements

Getting Started (Vector Data)

Getting Started (Time Manager)

Table 1. Data
Vector Data (Base Map) Spreadsheet Data
Coming Soon Video Demo

Getting the data

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.

Loading data to QGSIS

Create new project of QGIS

Base Map

Load CSV file

Save as ESRI shapefile

Designing a heatmap

Visualization in QGIS

Designing in TileMill