Compressing the two spatial dimensions of a map into the x-axis and using the y-axis for time is in fact a beautiful way to present events over time and space.

Compressing the two spatial dimensions of a map into the x-axis and using the y-axis for time is in fact a beautiful way to present events over time and space. I needed to do this in a project a few weeks ago and I don't know why this didn't occur to me. This is so much better than a dynamic map with a time slider.