The sequence of images below illustrates, in increasing
complexity, the use of scripts to animate spatial pattern in
Google Earth. This image above is a really simple example. An
image is constantly (every 60 seconds) and overlain with a
rectangular area. The tags <north>, <south>, <east> and <west>
refer to the bounding box, not to the units. Thus,
<east>-65</east> means, that the eastern boundary of the image
is 65° west of the meridian. The image has to be transparent, so
.PNG is a good file format. You can check out the original image
(it is large: 6200x3000). Also, here is a link to the file
radar.kml . Download the free Google Earth to view it. This
example is a little more complex. I started with a text
description of all the points that I want to animate. The
different components are separated by commas in anim.csv. The
format is pretty simple - the columns are: "time", "longitude",
"latitude", "altitude", and "status". The status can be one of
these elements ["green", "yellow", "red"]. It is importan