Animation is the process of making the illusion of motion and change by means of the rapid display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other. In the context of maps, the temporal component is added to a map to emphasize and observe the gradual evolution of a certain monitoring phenomenon, such as changes in spatially numerical variables (for example, environment, population, mobility, land use, etc.) with respect to a static geographic area. Map animations generally consider dynamic time while space is static. Map animation helps to see patterns or trends that emerge as time passes, depicting meteorological or climate events, natural disasters, historical events and other multivariate data. It is particularly helpful to be used in educational settings.