For a project, I want to simulate movement of individual entities on a map. Someone recommended ArcGIS for this purpose, so I looked around a bit and found ArcMap. For anyone who is experienced with the program: is it possible to plot, say, a dot on a location of a map, and make it move using a for loop? I know this is a really general question, but I thought I'd try to find out more about the program before actually getting a license. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
This was possibly in a very ancient predecessor to ArcMap, so I'm sure it's still possible. Back then it was programmable with Avenue. Now it's programmable with VBA.
In fact, I found this for you:
http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.2/pdf/Animation_in_ArcMap_Tutorial.pdf
If that's not exactly what you want, you can revert to VBA.