Animate points and/or polygons on leaflet map

Question

I am working with leaflet. I am wondering, if it is possible to animate points on the leaflet map like cartoDB is doing it with torque.js. I basically need a timeslider for manual display and a play-button for automatic display of the data. I cannot use torque.js because my data depends on the user input and may change during a session various times. Uploading it to cartoDB is therefore no option. I am aware that there is the possibility to create torque-tiles from a postGIS database. But: loading the data which the user requests into a postGIS database, running the .py from cartoDB to create torque-tiles on it and then feeding it to the torque framework sounds hacky.

I am further interested in applying the solution - if possible - to polygons. I need to change a choropleth map over time.

Answer 1

You could try using d3js.

This example seems to match what you want : http://stat4701-edav-d3.github.io/viz/cities/cities.html

Answer 2

Check this guide Is a guide of how to animate a path in map using d3