How can I add a map to my AV presentation?

[postcards_from_nowhere]

Hello everybody.

I am pretty new to this forum, and with very little experience about the making of AV presentations(slide show) from my pictures, so maybe the question has already been answered. 

I would like to add a map the narration of a travel, such as the animated road to the final destination. Which is the best (easiest ) way to do it? Is there any tool which I could use? (Windows 11 OS)

[goddi]

Greetings, I have made dozens of animated maps that show the routes of our trips. I find the RouteGenerator program to do a good job. Just make a screenshot of the area from Google Maps that you want to show the route and bring it into the program. Here is the link to the program:

https://www.routegenerator.net/

For an example, here is a sample of my animated routes we took on a trip through Scotland.

https://youtu.be/8XI857URsyA

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Gary

[postcards_from_nowhere]

Thank you, will try (with a trip to Scotland, too!)

[SeismicGuy]

Funny coincidence a few months ago I put together a slide show for our trip to Scotland and England and that routegenerator software would have been great but I was not aware of it.  So what I did for the initial slide was to use a Google Earth feature that ends up generating a movie and it is a rotating globe starting from the US and ending in and zooming in on the UK area.  For the legs of the trip where I was driving from one place in Scotland to another I searched for downloadable pdf or jpg maps on an area and used Photoshop to draw on my own route (in red) to create a slide that I would pan and zoom from the starting point to the ending point of that leg.  

[SeismicGuy]

On 12/21/2024 at 5:20 AM, goddi said:

Greetings, I have made dozens of animated maps that show the routes of our trips. I find the RouteGenerator program to do a good job. Just make a screenshot of the area from Google Maps that you want to show the route and bring it into the program. Here is the link to the program:

https://www.routegenerator.net/

For an example, here is a sample of my animated routes we took on a trip through Scotland.

https://youtu.be/8XI857URsyA

or

 

 

 

 

Gary

Sent you a PM

[goddi]

Greetings,

Here is another show that I used the RouteGenerator program. But I also used PTE's panning and zooming to follow the car and added text to the side.

Gary

 

[SeismicGuy]

I am still trying to figure out what I did "wrong" to get the focus on following the car when I just created this in RouteGenerator.  My intent was to create a map like the others shown here by RouteGenerator to be used in PTEAV with pan-and-zoom and instead I ended up with this map which is kind of an interesting effect but no idea as to how it happened:

 

 

[goddi]

Greetings,

I had sent you the solution but not sure where it went. Here it is again. (Oh, I see I sent it to the other guy, I think).

I upgraded to the current version, 1.12.0, of RG and it shows how to prevent the scrolling/panning you are experiencing. I had an older version so I had no idea why you were having this problem.

Gary

[SeismicGuy]

Hey Gary thanks for pointing that out.  I think I saw that but was not sure what it meant but now I know.  Actually I sort of like the effect now that I have looked at it several times.

[goddi]

5 hours ago, SeismicGuy said:

Hey Gary thanks for pointing that out.  I think I saw that but was not sure what it meant but now I know.  Actually I sort of like the effect now that I have looked at it several times.

Greetings,

 Yes, but you can be more creative using PTE's pan and zoom on the map. Really easy.

Gary