Temporal Map

That qgis temporal (time) map I posted earlier this morning on the blog about positive Coronavirus cases is pretty neat.

But they are kind of a pain to make right now as the feature is very incomplete in QGIS:

• No print layout design tools are available for export in qgis so you have to manually screenshot and paste the legend as an image and are limited in formatting options
• No ability to create GIF animations directly from qgis, must export multiple images and create the GIF animation in GIMP
• The shape file you make it from must use a date format field, it can’t process strings yet
• You can’t do a linkage on the fly but instead do the linkage manually which leads to the creation of very large Shape files or GeoPackages due to repeated shapes in the file for each time period