Moving entities in ArcMap

For a project, I want to s开发者_StackOverflowimulate 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.

While it is certainly possible to animate with ArcMap, it is not all that straight forward and yields mediocre results.

You can also animate using Google Earth.

https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/time?hl=en