(9) Animation

Using Time Primitive KML

(a) Locate yourself over the USA

(b) Create a <Folder> called months

(c) Within the folder create 12 random <Placemarker> each named after a month of the year and save as time.kml

(e) Within each of the 12 sets of <Placemarker> tags add time components , keeping a constant end date (2002-01) but making the begin date equal to the month the <Placemarker> is named after, e.g., for July:

<Placemark>
<name>jul</name>
    <LookAt>
        <longitude>-97.67310804519653</longitude>
        <latitude>40.33421556386488</latitude>
        <altitude>0</altitude>
        <range>4501838.107352327</range>
        <tilt>5.193851096052529e-014</tilt>
        <heading>10.73101542400057</heading>
    </LookAt>
    <TimeSpan>
        <begin>2001-07</begin>
        <end>2002-01</end>
    </TimeSpan>
    <styleUrl>#yellow</styleUrl>
    <Point>
        <coordinates>-78.26557716994674,39.9123847333105,0</coordinates>
    </Point>
</Placemark>

The time an/or date value is expressed as  yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:sszzzzzz, where T is the separator between the date and the time, and the time zone is either Z (for UTC) or zzzzzz, which represents plus/minus hh:mm in relation to UTC

(g) Play the animation

The time bar will automatically appear if the KML contains time primitive elements unless it has been turned-off (//View/Show Time)

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