3D globe: show the map as a round planet. Long flights curve over the Earth, the atmosphere glows at the edge, and round-the-world trips turn the globe as they go.
Voice-over: record narration for each scene while it plays, or add an audio file. The music dips automatically while you speak.
Sound effects: a sound for each way of travel, a whoosh between scenes and a chime at stops, generated in your browser.
Music, voice-over and effects are mixed into one soundtrack, and the preview plays exactly what the MP4 will contain.
Four new map styles: Watercolour, Pastel, Mediterranean and Dusk.
Five new transports with their own animated art: tuk-tuk, overland truck, tram, cable car and paraglider.
Six new route templates: the Great Ocean Road and North Coast 500 (along the real roads), the Tour du Mont Blanc, Japan’s Golden Route, Greek island hopping and the Hurtigruten coastal voyage.
Five new guides: scenes, music and voice-over, routes along real roads, transparent overlays and the 3D globe.
Clicking a field name no longer switches the first option of a button group.
v0.3.0
Scenes, music, roads and phones
Multiple scenes: split a trip into up to 20 chapters, each with its own route, camera, timing and title card.
Scene transitions: the camera flies from one scene to the next, fades through black, or cuts. Earlier routes stay on the map, full or faded.
Finale: an optional zoom-out over the whole trip at the end. The distance counter adds up across scenes.
Follow roads: car, bus, bike and walking legs snap to real roads, cycle routes and footpaths.
Music: add your own track with volume, start point, fades and looping, mixed into the MP4.
New export formats: transparent WebM (route and titles only, to layer over your footage) and GIF.
Rendering carries on when you switch to another tab.
Phone and tablet editing: a touch layout with the video on top and the tools at the bottom.
v0.2.0
Animated vehicles and scene layouts
Animated vehicles instead of icons: planes that climb with a shadow and contrail, trains pulling carriages, boats with wakes, walkers leaving footprints, spinning helicopter rotors, a bobbing hot-air balloon and more.
Adjustable flight arc height, and a railway-track line style for trains.
Fading comet trail, a glow where the line is drawn, and pulses when the line reaches a stop.
Scene layouts in one click: Clean, Cinematic, Journal, Data and Minimal.
Title cards (cinematic, lower third or corner), leg labels and a live distance counter in km or miles.
Frame finishing: vignette, film grain and cinematic letterbox bars.
The follow camera now frames each stop-to-stop section, so long road trips stay close.
v0.1.0
MapAnimate is live
Editor with route drawing, GPX/KML/KMZ/IGC import, legs and pauses.
21 transports with their own icons, colours and line styles, and great-circle arcs for flights.
12 map themes, from Field Notes to Satellite, with hill shading and 3D mountains.
Signs: pins, tags, passport stamps, flags, photo prints and callouts.
Follow, glide, fixed and overview cameras.
MP4 export up to 4K at 24, 30 or 60 fps in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5.