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Great interface that allows you to quickly save thumbnail images of your maps to put in an animation...great web map design.

Great source for historic census and religion data that you can view over time and create time-based animations.

Do you have the specific link to mapping of religions?

This NYTimes map allows you to explore immigration in the United States over time. It also allows you to choose a country and view data relating to that countries immigrants in the United States.

Here are some Time/Map animations. It appears that there may be open source software from TimeMap, but that requires some further investigation.

Do you like some of the New York Times maps and graphics? If so, you can view some of the projects here. Also, at the bottom of the page is MapShaper, which looks like it could be very useful for simplifying shapefiles for KML use.

The journey of mankind is an interactive flash animation that shows the population of the world through time.

Historic maps, multiple viewing options, some available for download, I like the timeviewer where you can view maps through time.

Great historic maps website with multiple viewing options.

I think I like the maps in this format better than Google Earth. Thank you Mr. Rumsey.

The Spatial History Project at Stanford University, a part of the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, is made possible by the generous funding of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.