Travel map animation maker

The Route action draws your trip leg by leg between real places. Fill in From and To, add a waypoint for each stop, and choose the route mode. Driving follows real roads. Maritime is for ferries and sea crossings. Air/Direct draws a flight or a straight line. Rail draws a named rail route that you pick from a list.

One Route action has one mode, so a trip that mixes a drive and a ferry is two actions, one after the other. The Greek island clip on this page does that: a driving leg, then ferry legs from island to island, with a label at every stop.

Each leg has its own colour, width, opacity and pattern. In the Head settings, put an arrow or an icon at the tip of the line (a car, a ship, a plane), or a 3D model.

Label marks each stop with a name, a date or a "Day 3". The Icon/Model action drops a pin, a flag or a 3D model on a place. Pause holds the view so the stop can be read before the route moves on.

Border and Land outline or fill the country you are visiting, and Land can fill it with its flag. The South America clip on this page fills one country after another with its flag as the camera glides down the continent.

A route never moves the camera by itself. Add Fly along and the camera rides the line. Use Fly to and Orbit to arrive at a stop and circle it, and Tilt for a view across the terrain.

Routes are not only roads. The Nile clip on this page traces the river from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean and labels the cities on the way.

The fastest start is a sentence: the stops, how you travelled between them, and what to label. Animaps turns it into steps that you can edit one by one, so a wrong stop or a slow leg is a small fix and not a new attempt.

The Country Tour and City Tour templates are finished tours that you re-point at your own destination. Each clip on this page lists the map style it was rendered with, from satellite imagery to a chalkboard look.