129_vector_to_gif.ipynb

Kernel: Python 3

Creating animated GIF from vector data

Inspired by Johannes Uhl's shapefile2gif, I created a vector_to_gif() function in geemap that makes it much easier to create animated GIF from vector data with only one line of code. The sample dataset used in this notebook is a subset of the dataset retrieved from the shapefile2gif repo. Credits to Johannes Uhl. For more information about the datasets, check out the references below:

• Uhl, Johannes H; Leyk, Stefan (2022), "MTBF-33: A multi-temporal building footprint dataset for 33 counties in the United States (1900–2015)", Data in Brief, 43, 108369. DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108369

• Uhl, Johannes H; Leyk, Stefan (2022), “MTBF-33: A multi-temporal building footprint dataset for 33 U.S. counties at annual resolution (1900-2015)”, Mendeley Data, V2. DOI: 10.17632/w33vbvjtdy.2

Uncomment the following line to install geemap if needed.

# !pip install -U geemap

import geemap

# A subset of the dataset retrieved from https://github.com/johannesuhl/shapefile2gif
data = "https://github.com/giswqs/data/raw/main/us/boulder_buildings.zip"

m = geemap.Map(center=[39.9898, -105.2532], zoom=14)
m.add_vector(data, layer_name="Buildings")
m

out_gif = "buildings.gif"
colname = "year_built"
title = "Building Evolution in Boulder, Colorado, USA (1950-2015)"

geemap.vector_to_gif(
    data,
    out_gif,
    colname,
    vmin=1950,
    vmax=2015,
    step=10,
    facecolor="black",
    figsize=(10, 8),
    title=title,
    xy=("1%", "1%"),
    fontsize=20,
    progress_bar_color="blue",
    progress_bar_height=10,
    dpi=300,
    fps=10,
    mp4=False,
    verbose=True,
)