# SpanishEmpireTimelapse

A time series map of the territorial evolution of the Spanish Empire from 1492 to 1899, animated in yearly increments. This world map depicts the empire’s territorial extent subdivided into Viceroyalties and Captaincy Generals against landmasses color-coded by landcover. The projection is EPSG:4326 (WGS 84).

The boundary data depicted in this map is primarily authored by Charlie Plett and available on OpenHistoricalMap in the public domain under a Creative Commons CC0 dedication. Sources are given in individual entries within this OpenHistoricalMap chronology relation. See the individual entries within that relation for links to sources.

The landcover layer comes from the European Space Agency’s GlobCover initiative, which is copyrighted by the ESA and UCLouvain and freely licensed for use with attribution. Subtle hillshading comes from Global multi-resolution terrain elevation data 2010 (GMTED2010) by J.J. Danielson and D.B. Gesch at the United States Geological Survey, which is in the public domain. The map data was postprocessed and styled in QGIS 3.40.3 and converted to WebM format by FFmpeg.

- Kind: Cartoon
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Author:
- Genres: Animation
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SpanishEmpireTimelapse.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Author:
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/169412647?play=1)