[thegrossman]

Getting smooth animations took an inhuman amount of effort... adding a rotating map would have been a little bit too much for launch. Hopefully we'll get to it in the near future.

Regarding the UK, you're right. I'll add a new view that's moved to the west.

[oulipo]

I figured out it was a few PNG files with 3 channels each encoding various time points, and then a simple linear fade between images,

or was that more complex?

of course, computing & serving those time point samples might be slightly more complex:)