Animating a time series of events

Sorry, I don’t see how to make this a Feature Request.

Follow up to my post here . It took a while but I successfully used Gramps to produce a list of immigrant ancestors, where they came from, and when and where they landed. Just counting patriarchs, I found 250 of them.

My idea was to use animated time series map in a template offered on the web app Flourish. After a great deal of configuration, I was able to produce this animation . It fails to display all the immigrant’s names, but you get the idea.

I have a customized gramps website. I hope more things like this can be added to the web report so all that data doesn’t just sit in gramps database!

In case you hadn’t seen the it, there is a TimeLinesMap Geography addon view that has animated plots.

maybe one of these tools can help somehow?

Thanks. Developed at my alma mater! Looks rudimentary but I’ll check it out to see if I can enhance it and integrate with Gramps.

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Another possibility is writing a report to output XML “factoids” in Running Reality format.

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Interesting, but it looks like a single history project you contribute data to?

They say some genealogy features are coming:

I guess that’s only for newer Gramps? I’m still on 5.1.6. But anyway, I want something animated and informative that I can share on the web.

There isn’t an existing report that outputs factoid format. One would have to be written. Since there is such a broad spectrum of factoids that can be mapped, it doesn’t seem likely a general report would satisfy anyone. They would probably need to be custom crafted.

And while Running Reality says it does have a GEDCOM import, you would still have to filter to the desired persons and events.

As to your earlier question about being a single history project, that’s for the framework that most people fold their private (local) data into. So you don’t have to recreate the general geopolitical landscape before poltting your ancestor migrations.

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