County Finds Progression Maps/GIF Creation?

Question

Have you ever seen those county GIF files folks have created to show a visual progression of county finds within a country, usually the lower 48 of the U.S.  I've done it myself using GSAK and the GSAK macro FindStatGen3 to create the needed maps (I created one map per year starting with 2009) followed by using GIMP to create the single GIF file.   It's a little tedious, and I'd really like to see if I could create one map for each county I've found in the US (703). I'm wondering if anyone can think of any tools or methods within project-gc to do the same, so the process might be simpler and less tedious?

Answer 1

You can use the URL-manipulation of the Profile Stats to create maps for different dates, but if you've logged multiple counties in a day I don't believe there's a reasonable way to generate those maps individually. https://project-gc.com/w/Profile_Stats#URL_manipulation Considering the sizes of the images that you could download versus the scale at which you're likely to view the final GIF, you could probably get decent results with some manual editing on the dates with multipel finds but it wouldn't really speed up the process.

Comments

I'll play around with your idea.   Multiple new counties that occured on the same date would be fine with a single map.    From what you just said, What I'd really like to be able to do is create a list of URLs like:
https://project-gc.com/ProfileStats/DrPflug?llh=2012-05-09#Maps
https://project-gc.com/ProfileStats/DrPflug?llh=2012-07-12#Maps
https://project-gc.com/ProfileStats/DrPflug?llh=2012-08-04#Maps
etc.
and have some sort of program (javascript?) invoke those URLs and look at the output from each one and somehow look at the US counties Map and download it - saving it with the date as part of the name.  Then I'd have all the need Maps and could run GIMP with those maps as input.

I will look into that..... so thanks for the help.