TimeManager is a QGIS plugin, TimeManager adds time controls to QGIS. Using these time controls, you can animate vector features based on a time attribute.

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How to overcome missing data in Time Manager

I am relatively new to QGIS, and while trying to use Time Manager, I am having the following trouble - the date field in my attribute table has some missing values, which are mentioned as '---'. When ...
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Labeling feature count when using QGIS TimeManager

I am using the TimeManager plugin (which is brilliant) to animate housing development occupations within the main town in our Authority area. So far, it's working well. I've added a point memory ...
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Time Manager date format without time

I want to use Time Manager plugin with QGIS 2.18.9 and unable to correctly format the date and assign it to a field within a table. I have an imported table with a field called "Year Built" ...
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How to keep the cummulative polygons in time manager for QGIS?

I use time manager for a polygon layers with dates and it works. I would like to see the cummulative addition of my polygons. So I have 4 periods I want the poylgons from 1900-1950 to be added to the ...
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QGIS Time Manager animation does not run

I'm encountering some problems with Time Manager that after adding layer to Time Manger settings the animation doesn't run. Nether the play button or trough slider. I'm following steps of the video (...
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How much raster data can TimeManager handle?

I have average wind speed data for the UK at 5x5km grids in raster form for every month over 10 years. I load the first 7 months into timemanager and the animation is fluid without any loading/down ...
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TimeManager: “Have layers, but animation not possible”

I have used TimeManager before and really like however I have some problem now with QGIS 2.18.4 (can't pinpoint the problem to 2.18.4) However, I use a PostgreSQL/PostGIS layer as input I've tried ...
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Play GPS tracks with different start times synchronously using Timemanager

We collected 250 tracks from tourists over a period of one week. Now we would like to use timemanager to create a motion video of tourists' spatial behavior. The problem is that the starting time of ...
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Time Manager to animate time series in multiple columns?

I have a vector file of Africa containing all its countries. I have a CSV file containing a time series of monthly precipitation per African country. Is there a way to use Time Manager (or anything ...
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Can Time Manager ignore/skip time when there is no data?

I have several months of data where it is only between 8am and 5pm mon-fri. When I export .png images in time manager it includes the time in between, eg 5pm-8am and sat-sun. Is there a way for it ...
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What SQL query will replace nth character(s) in QGIS DBManager? [closed]

I have a table with a date/time column. The symbols separating the date need to be changed in order for it to work with the TimeManager plugin. Eg. 2016:08:13 08:41:20 to 2016/08/13 08:41:20 The ...
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Issue working with Timemanager plugin of qgis [closed]

I am trying to create an animation layer using a csv file, but the layer appears blank with small "time frame size". Attached images have sample data I am plotting with 'hour4' as the time field. ...
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Can QGIS Time Manager be used with millions of data points?

I have several months of tracking data for researchers driving across north america and i would like to animate their progress. The Time Manager seems to work fine for maybe one weeks worth of one ...
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Time Manager in QGIS to perform spatio temporal analysis

I am working on identification and monitoring of pipeline oil spill using remote sensing and QGIS. (I am a new user.) I wish to know how to use the time manager in QGIS to monitor the incident events. ...
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How to create an animated route map (à la Indiana Jones) in QGIS?

Using QGIS and other free tools, how can I use a Google Maps route to create a route animation in the style of the Indiana Jones movies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TY5Fp6O5iM)? I have found two ...
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Error message in QGIS using Timemanager

I am using QGIS version 2.14.0 (Essen) and have dowloaded the latest version of the Time Manager plugin in order to do some spatial-temporal analysis. I have imported a csv file into QGIS and made a ...
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QGIS Time Manager having trouble parsing valid dates from SQLite?

I am getting the message below from TimeManager in QGIS. The error message is confusing because the date is displays would seem to be a valid format (I'm using YYYY-MM-DD). The table is in sqllite ...
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Error message Time Manager plugin with QGIS [closed]

I am using QGIS version 2.14.0 (Essen) and have downloaded the latest version of the Time Manager plugin in order to do some spatial-temporal analysis. I have imported a csv file into QGIS and made a ...
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Displaying time series data by changing object color in QGIS

I am looking to visualize the changes in lake chemistry over time by varying the color of the lake(s) as rendered on the map. I have found the time manager plugin, that seems to be close to what I am ...
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How to configure Time Manager with Raster Data?

I have a number of separate raster layers, which I would like to view with the Time Manager plug-in. I choose each layer, let TimeManager know the date and dateformat from the filename as you can see ...
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using my own data Timemanager [closed]

I created a small dataset in google sheets. The columns are date, latitude and longitude, and size. I added the csv layer to my map, and then added the layer to timemanager plugin. for some reason, ...
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Animate polygon shapefile using QGIS time manager

I am looking for a way to use the QGIS plugin "Time Manager" to animate a polygon shapefile. I have a polygon shapefile that has a field of population per year for each feature and I want the plugin ...
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How to export bigger images from TimeManager?

Whilst I think 'TimeManager' works very well, is it possible to define the output scale, so that the output provides better quality data when exporting? There are no options in its interface where I ...
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QGIS Time Manager 2.2.1 does not display any points

I have a large data set collected by a GPS collar on a cow that I am trying to animate with the Time Manager plugin to show the cow's movement throughout a pasture. I have the data saved in a .shp ...
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Automatically zoom to region of map where GPS traces appear and run TimeManager

How would I accomplish in qgis automating of the production of multiple TimeManager recordings with a consistent orientation, zoom and framing of gps traces?. I expect it will involve python & ...
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QGIS Time manager [closed]

I am trying to use the Time Manager plugin in QGIS to create a time series of some raster data. I get the following error message: AttributeError: 'QgsRasterLayer' object has no attribute '...
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What are the rendering options for timeline animations in QGIS?

I want to animate a shapefile that has a timeline (DATE) attribute using QGIS. The [TimeManager] plugin (http://anitagraser.com/projects/time-manager/) has been installed and provides sufficient ...
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QGIS legend without print composer

I'm trying to export a series of images using the TimeManager plugin. I'd like to have a legend on each, to demonstrate why my datapoints are sized the way that they are (i.e. this circle size ...
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QGIS Time manager raster error [closed]

I would like to give a shot to the Time manager in QGIS with some raster datasets. I load 2 rasters (both single band, 32bit float). I add the first one in the Time Manager window with the start ...
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QGIS TimeManager with multiple features at one time?

Since the data I have to deal with is really large, it is not practical to separate every feature into one line in the CSV file. Is there any way to animate them as a whole layer? I have ...
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How can I implement animation with lines using QGIS TimeManager?

Among all the examples I saw, I can only find those with animated dots. I need to implement a time slider based on each link's capacity, and display different colours according to the magnitude. ...
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Archaeological spatiotemporal map using QGIS TimeManager?

I have been trying to use TimeManager to make a spatiotemporal map of artefacts found on a archaeological site. My goal is to show if there is areas on the site wich concentrates artefacts having ...
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How to visualize car park occupancy over time?

I am using QGIS Brighton 2.6.1. I have a csv table with the exact entrance datetime and exact exit datetime of every car in an specific parking. Example of table: Nº DateTimeEntrance ...
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How to deal with QGIS Time Manager error: no attribute 'animationFrameCounter'?

I am using QGIS 2.6 and using the time manager I get the error shown in the attached image. Does anyone know what the problem is and could offer a solution? !
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How to coalesce frames with mencoder in QGIS Time Manager plugin? [closed]

I need some guidance putting the exported frames together from the QGIS Time Manager plugin. I saw your line about mencoder, so I downloaded it along with mplayer, but I'm not sure how to use them. ...
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Date-format conversion

I'm using Time Manager and QGIS 1.8.0 and I am stuck at date-format conversion. Time Manager needs Gregorian format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.ssssss in text field and I have thousands of records in "month/...
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How to use values such as 2014-03-31T15:00:33.000Z in QGIS Time Manager?

I´m trying to use the QGIS Time Manager plugin but I have a problem with my attribute columns. Time Manager supports %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S format but my dataset uses the following format in the timestamp ...
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Troublehsooting QGIS Time Manager in OSX

Though it worked with a sample .shp layer with 10 points that I fabricated, the plugin isn't working with the larger data set I am trying to use now (a couple thousand points). It correctly identifies ...
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How to create an animated map in QGIS which cycles through column values

So i have a shapefile with 40 polygons(rows) and 30 columns where each column represent values from different time period. I have created a map with graduated style by choosing values from one column ...
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Time Manager (QGIS) date format

I've been through associated answers but cannot quite seem to find something which works! I'm having trouble getting TimeManager to recognise a simple data field (this is in QGIS2 - but I've had this ...
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How to add a dynamic timeline to the QGIS canvas?

I am using the plugin Timemanager which works really great but there is one thing I'd like to improve. Instead of displaying the date and time on each frame, I would like to display a timeline ...
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QGIS Time Manager with Multiple Vector Layers

I have to animate a map of Europe (31 countries) which contains three separate vector layers: The first layer is a simple map (with just the political boundaries) of Europe with 31 countries (each ...
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Is there any “proper” way of setting the viewport for QGis Time Manager?

I'm working on video visualisation for some geo data. Everything works fine for me except the viewport that the time manager plugin is using for image frames. It makes image frames size of actual map ...
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Did anyone manage to use time manager with dates before 1900?

a simple question. Did anyone manage to use time manager with dates before 1900? Other than the solution suggested by Anita in Is it possible to change the year range of time manager in QGIS?
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Can TimeManager animate a large number of rasters in QGIS?

I understand that as of a year ago, the TimeManager plugin was not intended to handle more than a handfull of rasters. This post is in blind hope that this has changed! I'm trying to create a map ...
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How to install TimeManager for QGIS?

I'm trying to install TimeManager for QGIS. I can't find it under Plugins/Fetch Python Plugins and I have verified that the official repository is listed in the Plugins menu, so I'm wondering if there'...
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Is it possible to change the year range of time manager in QGIS?

I have a shapefile with a start and end time field, properly formatted. However my dates range from 1864-1995. When I try to use the shape file with the QGIS time manager plugin I keep getting this ...