Animated videos are a powerful tool for public education and conveying a message clearly and consicesly. Such animations can help to understand wow an object (in our case, a radio-collared animal) moves in the landscape over the time. I am looking for the easy tool that can convert a location/date-time data into the animation of movement points/tracks.
I do not know of a method to automatically generate an animation from timecoded movement data, but if I understand your question correctly, you basically just want a marker, that moves on a map, like the visualization of wale traveling or similar long distance movements of animals. This can easily be achieved by hand. You just need a good video editing software, like Final Cut Pro from Apple, to give just one example. Probably any video editor, that supports key-framing will work. Then you place your geographical map in the background and a timecode or counter in the corner, most video editors have the feature of placing a timer somewhere.
Now all you need to do is place a marker object, that can be an arrow or dot or even a picture of the animal, on the starting position and capture a keyframe. Then move it to the next known position (if you have continuous data, you need to decide how wide you want to make the steps), move your video to the correct timecode and capture the next keyframe. Repeat this procedure until you reach the end of your travel route and the movement in between the keyframes will be interpolated by the software. This is a bit of work, but should not take very long. I actually used this method for dissection videos during distance learning.
Adobe After Effects has a motion tracking tool that can let you add an object such as your location/date-time to follow a specific element of your film
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