User blog:IonMapping/The real "Father of Mapping"?

Ok, so one day I was reading about WW2, and I found this animation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Second_world_war_europe_animation_large_de.gif

Apparently it was created by a person called "San Jose", and it was made in 2005. Personally, I think it classifies as a map animation, if not a video, so techincally it IS mapping. Does this mean Mervue isn't actually the first one to do this? Is San Jose the real "Father of Mapping"?