Create and Animate a Custom Google Map 🌎

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Start learning on Skillshare today with 2 free months at skl.sh/boonelovesvideo2 Google Earth + After Effects - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXTNnIKAYr59Z6c

[@liamparkin5445]

This was a lifesaver! I edit video for a pretty big company and our upcoming show needed animated map graphics. I was approved for the Studio the same day and I followed your video to get me through it. Thanks man!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You're very welcome! Glad to hear it all came together for you. :)

[@ZenWalks]

Wow, this is the ultimate guide to animated google maps routes. Finally I understand how it's done. I became your absolute fan! Cheers form Portugal :)

[@DaviCosta1]

I like the way you start the tutorial by giving an overview of what you are going to do! Great job!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Glad you liked it!

[@TheMrPastry]

Looks really cool and not too complicated. I imagine if the route were created in segments each one could be made to appear in sequence. Still not an animated route per say, but the next best thing for now. The data points to do animation at 30 fps for a route becomes the challenge I would think for processing.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Very true, Mark! You can always export two videos, and leave the path off of one. Then bring both into After Effects and animate a simple mask to reveal the path. You can do this in Premiere Pro as well. 😎

[@SteveJarriel]

Well done! One of the best tutorials I've ever watched. I enjoyed how you adapted in your own learning curve.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Wow thanks for the kind comment. I appreciate that. Glad you enjoyed the tutorial.

[@mikebrodner]

What a unique tutorial. Thanks so much for this!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching.

[@justinoneill2837]

i was expecting a "zoomed out to zoomed in" animation. that'd be cool

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Indeed, it would be.

[@justinoneill2837]

@@BooneLovesVideo drop a video! 😄

[@ifpoliveira]

Hey I was also wondering if there is a "zoomed out to zoomed in" option. I have a B&B in a small village and wanted to make a zoom in video so people can get a picture of where the location is in relation to other big cities. Do you have any videos that could help with this?

[@dogger2727]

Wow - this was 4 years ago! Can't wait to see what new features there have been since then. Great video

[@BooneLovesVideo]

For last I checked, they haven't been introducing a lot of new features. :/ But still, it's so good that they don't really need to.

[@cttp]

Extremely useful man. Awesome tut!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks Piotr!

[@bushubean5598]

Great video and great tour of Paris! btw who was in Paris?

[@GeoscienceImaging]

Nice to see the combination of google map & animation tools! And that they are adding new features to Earth Studio!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Yeah they've actually been adding some cool features! I need to do an updated tutorial.

[@SeasonsRealEstate]

This is incredible! I've been manually creating videos of maps, this is so much easier!

[@derrickt842]

Thanks, that's what I need now; very informative, detailed, and helpful video.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Glad it was helpful!

[@plantbasedprepper]

Awe man, I watched the entire video and created mine but thought the directions would animate the route and not fade in all at once.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

I know, it's a big bummer that they don't have that feature.

[@nickandhelmi]

great tutorial my man :> thanks!

[@davidmeister_ch]

Very helpful, thanks!

[@banskobystrickacementarenska]

thank you very much for your video tutorial. Very usefull for me now. Anyway at the Render/ Save you can save the project in mp4 video format, so this is little update :)

[@ForTheLoveOfWheels]

Excellent tutorial. Google Earth Studio is a bit easier now, when it comes to the rendering but otherwise this was all pretty spot on! Thank you!

[@jayaramanseshappa8169]

Very unique and informative video. Thank you for helping to discover more value from google maps...

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Glad to hear it helped! Thanks for the nice comment.

[@mahdimatoori5241]

these tutorials about google earth studio were really helpful... Tank you for sharing...

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You're welcome. Thanks for the nice comment.

[@paxvid]

Thanks! 🤓

[@EarthExplorer89]

Thanks mate!

[@GeminiDiscover]

Hi, great video. Is there a way yet to animate the route so it begins and gradually gets to the end point??

[@AmericanAdventuresInJapan]

Nice! really nice. I have book marked this. Thanks a ton!

[@SourceADV]

Wow! THank you so much, this awesome!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You're very welcome! Thanks for the nice comment.

[@davidalanmedia]

Hi Boone, I've got a problem when I import my KML file into Google Earth they don't show up on the Google Earth map even though I see them on the timeline . I've added opacity keyframes too. Not quite sure what I've done wrong. Any suggestions? Update! I didn't type in my location to update the map. Thanks for the tutorials, they are super helpful

[@mannsonthemove2958]

Thank You very helpful!!!!

[@RudeCustoms]

Very cool. I hope I get accepted to use this. I actually work in the media industry and from previous experience, we would've had to have our "art department" work this animation and it would be (sometimes) painstaking work to get this done. I, personally, would just want to use this to animate our car club cruise route so that the Members would get an idea of how we do our drive. Thanks for giving the lessons!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Did you get approved?

[@RudeCustoms]

@@BooneLovesVideo Yep. I used all your lessons on a video I recently did for a car club cruise to Reno from the SF Bay Area. I'll try to post it. But I have a feeling I'll get my butt kicked by KZbin because I also incorporated music. Let me try to post it in the next 5 min.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

@@RudeCustoms Yeah cool I'd love to see it.

[@RudeCustoms]

@@BooneLovesVideo Here you go: ttps://kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2jUcoV9lJiBf80

[@RudeCustoms]

@@BooneLovesVideo They might remove it because I have music with it. I crack up how they get my stuff in seconds and I see thousands of other videos with copyright music. What a joke how their Copyright Police operates

[@calebout]

Great tutorial, very clear as usual ;-)

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks!

[@FirenikoTube]

Nice! thank you! Very interesting and helpfull for travelers video!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You’re welcome! Thanks for the nice comment. And yes indeed, it’s so fun to make maps with these tools.

[@alexok2318]

Is there a way to add a zoom in and out animation to each location along the route? Would be so helpful!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Yeah, you can do that with Google Earth Studio.

[@joelprestonsmith]

What if you're not traveling from tourist destination to tourist destination? What if you just want to travel along a road? Right clicking on a Google map (in this context, via mymaps/) does nothing, which means you can't get the coordinates for locations. Is there some other way to set a location without having to use a series of named waypoints?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Great question. You can use the Marker tool to drop a marker somewhere. And they you can set a route between several markers. Does that answer your question?

[@GurpreetSingh-im9dl]

Thank you for this ......

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks for watching.

[@topandfamous]

I want to join your course but I have a question before. Can I use screenshots of google earth in my videos?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You can georeference images onto the map in GEOlayers 3. I don't know about licensing issues though.

[@MartinaTakano]

Thanks this was clear and easy to follow.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You're welcome. Thanks for the nice comment!

[@Maxmilion6004]

super cool

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks Max!

[@DeltadronesBr]

Awesome video! Thanks a lot!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks for watching.

[@Dan_TheMedic]

Do you know if there is a way of animating the route from the perspective of the "little orange man'? I'm trying to produce some custom route maps for motorcycle trips and would like to be able to see, before I take a specific route or road, what that road actually looks like so I can change the route before commiting it to a map. Think of this as watching a GoPro POV video of me riding down a road, but using the Google Earth/Maps without having to click on the direction arrows on that road. Often I've ridden roads and afterwards some has said "oh, you should have gone down this road instead of that road, its far more scenic", or words to that effect. I guess it must be a feature if you can physically click on each route in 'Street View' by draggin the little orange man to that road and it changes the view from a map to an image view - I just can't work out how to do it.

[@gabismedia814]

this is super freaking cool, thank you!!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Agreed! You're welcome.

[@skymarbletravel]

Greetings! Checking for an update. Do you know if Google Earth Studio will now allow you to draw your walking route? Loved the vid. Subscribed. Great job! Post date: 12/13/2021

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hey thanks! As far as I know, you still can't animate a route. Only the transparency.

[@NickMasseyRideon]

absolutely fabulous, thank you so much

[@sks96816]

Hi Boone....nice job....could post a link to the map you created above for a 'Shared Map' in My Maps.....tysm.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Yeah, let me look.

[@casalerosmarinosuveretotoscana]

Thanks, finali clear video on this topic!))) Great job👍

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You are welcome!

[@travellerg5834]

Very helpful tutorial; thanks for sharing [Subscribed too] All the best

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thank you!

[@ChalaJaataHun-CarCampingIndia]

They are not showing Name of the Places on the final File..

[@cineoitoum]

Cool!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

For real!

[@paulrusso1815]

Thats great! How do you animate the walking tour so you can see the sites and not just a line and icons.

[@luizaugustobarros1543]

Amazing tutorial!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks for the nice comment. It is much appreciated.

[@hudriwudri111]

hi! thank you so much for that great tutorial. if you had 4 different walking routes (one from A to B, B to C etc) you could animate them to come in like you did with the icons, couldn't you?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Yes, but the paths would just fade in and out. You can't trim the paths in GES.

[@TheMrtylerita]

Very well done. Thank you

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Glad you liked it!

[@nelson3823]

Why doesn’t it let you do flight or train directions?

[@cpfcrulek]

Hi there, great video, I'm just wondering if it's possible to make a map (of the world) like this, but then when you click on each marker it could show you an mp4 video you upload or some text/video? I've conducted interviews with people from around the world from a project so I'd like to make a sort of interactive map where you click on each place and it shows you the interview, but not sure if this is possible. Many thanks in advance!

[@WheresMyMap]

Thank you. Do you know if Google has yet added the capability to animate -- grow and move -- the route?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You're welcome! And no, not yet!

[@aakashramimoto2016]

Very cool. Is there a way to animate the map view, as opposed to the earth/satellite view?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You mean the style?

[@kylegilmore11]

Pardon the ignorance as I'm just learning this... I've seen a video out there that allows you to do this but with essentially property boundary lines and we could then animate around that. How can I do this?

[@daveb3989]

Cheers BOONE, this is really helpful! Love your channel, will use affiliates for work if I can and I'll be suggesting Skill Share too for training. I came across another guide today that gets you to convert the "walk route" KML into an SVG (refine it in illustrator) but then bring it into AE. My main goal now is to get a smart object to move along the path at the rate its revealed... any ideas on that how to do that? Its to show how much quicker an air ambulance is compared to an ambulance on the road in an emergency...

[@daveb3989]

Here's the other guide I found kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqnRpKaEaq16eas

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Sorry for the late reply. Try this one- kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZDae4t_nLhlias

[@BooneLovesVideo]

This is a really great tutorial!

[@daveb3989]

Ah you do work for Premium Beat too?! Learnt so much from them too, thanks for the link!

[@IScreamer]

This is a great tutorial! But what does "KML/KMZ" mean?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

It's the Google earth file format for Geospatial data. A KMZ is just a zipped KML.

[@gregcole5693]

Awesome. Thanks.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You’re welcome thanks for the comment!

[@robineaston9599]

Couldn't you make the route layer sequence from the start of the first to the end of the last and have the route draw as you went from point to point?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Maybe? Did you try it?

[@Wriachleyluache]

Great Video and great explaining! Do you know of any free to use video editing software that does the image sequence exporting?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Not of the top of my head, sorry.

[@Wriachleyluache]

@@BooneLovesVideo found out, it's actually possible through photoshop (also not free but I happen to own a license)

[@flavioborup]

Very cool! I have a Bike Ride in TCX (MapMyRide format), so I converted to KML, imported into Earth Studio, but i I can´t create an animation properly, the Starting point and the Ending point is the exact same, is a "round" (almost a circle) round, so I can´t make Studio to use as beggining/End to create the animated map.. any tip?

[@styxnexus]

Very cool. Thanks a ton ! Can we use this to monetize our videos on KZbin ?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Not entirely sure. I think so.

[@gabrielahimsa4387]

cool stuff!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Indeed!

[@MakeTestBattle]

How do you animate the camera to follow the path?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Not sure.

[@ebonyhall8557]

This is really really helpful. I'm watching all of your videos! Thanks! Could you help troubleshoot when I try to add a new focal point it automatically reverts to other places. How do I stop Studio from panning out into outer space all of a sudden?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hey Ebony, are you talking about a camera target or a track point?

[@ebonyhall8557]

@@BooneLovesVideo Thanks for responding. I'm not sure what the track point is, but the camera view itself will often drift in a different direction after deleting or moving keyframes around? If that makes more sense. Then it becomes difficult to wrangle the camera view back in after.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

@@ebonyhall8557 Yes, unfortunately it's a very clunky setup. You can select a camera target, which will help. Check out the Google Earth Studio documentation, which gives a few tips on how to better control the camera. I've noticed that it's always the Pan attribute throwing everything out of whack. I usually manually add the ROLL attribute and try to animate with that instead.

[@AbhishekSharmaMit]

Hi Boone I need some help in creating a route map for my delivery job. Sometimes, I have more than 300 deliveries but I couldn’t find any video or tool which can help me route these many. Pls help. Thanks in advance.

[@denisdworatschek2115]

Thanks for the relaxed tutorial. I made my first video today. Sadly, the Earth Studio is really buggy. Some of my Dots missed after rendering and the saved project is partly destroyed.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Yeah, it has quite a few bugs that I've encountered. Haven't had that particular issue yet, but it's done some weird things. So you're missing the track points? And how is the project destroyed?

[@denisdworatschek2115]

@@BooneLovesVideo The keyframe points were displaced and the oppacity properties were also gone

[@BooneLovesVideo]

@@denisdworatschek2115 Oh wow that's no good. They just introduced the Opacity feature in the latest release. I'll have to play around and see if I get the same issues.

[@denisdworatschek2115]

@@BooneLovesVideo It is. I was really angry, was a lot of work. They were five track points and one route like in your tutorial. But I made a zoom in and out and follow the track.

[@Londinense]

Excellent tutorial.Now I need to try it for myself. One question. Is there a way for the final map to have the way points named rather than just an icon? As a Mac user, can I export the final sequence of JPGs to iMovie or the like?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks for the kind words! I'm not entirely sure about the waypoint names. Seems like something you'd have to add in a program like Adobe After Effects. And I'm not sure if iMovie can handle image sequences. You'd just have to give it a go and try.

[@Londinense]

@@BooneLovesVideo I'll do some experimenting and see what I can come up with! Thanks again.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

@@Londinense Yeah let me know. Hopefully you can get something working.

[@Londinense]

@@BooneLovesVideo I seem to have been able to label my three waypoints on a map, but there doesn't seem to be any ability to change fonts or such. And I still don't know if the place names will carry over. I set myself a tough task by making my first map of a boat journey. I found it quite hard clicking on all the right points on the river in one go using the create line tool!

[@Londinense]

@@BooneLovesVideo The waypoint names I saved in Maps carried over in to Studio (although I have now forgotten how to add the names). I can confirm that as a Mac user I can use Quicktime Player to convert a series of JPGs into a movie (MOV format). Next question: Have you done a slightly less rushed video showing how to stagger the in and out points using keyframe opacity? From about 13'30' in the current video. I have watched it a few times but still haven't got it right! Maybe there have been some changes to the programme since you made this video.

[@imcarto]

its cool

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Indeed it is.

[@imcarto]

@@BooneLovesVideo do you know, I try to create some video like that, and I was uploaded in my instagram post, I want to tag you but I don't know what your instagram

[@BooneLovesVideo]

@@imcarto Hey that's nice of you. It's @boonelovesvideo

[@lowhealth525]

can i color in countries? like can i maybe map out the Russian invasion of Ukraine?

[@aaronstaight4586]

Could use still add this map api to a webpage and it still contain your route information?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hmmmm good question. I don't know!

[@analilunai6420]

and change base map? if i want a game map using google map ¿how i can do it?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Not sure how to do that with Google Maps.

[@Noel_Santhosh_007]

Will it take time to get the access to google earth studio? I have signed up but it’s showing “will get back to you soon” ….If you have any other alternative for doing this animation in map please do tell…

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Should only be a day or two. Did you get approved?

[@Noel_Santhosh_007]

@@BooneLovesVideo yes thanks

[@anerdwitdacamera204]

Almost 2 years, they are still beta'ing this 😭 Google made another cool tech that probably not gonna making money, hopefully they don't cancel it like their other cool products....

[@BooneLovesVideo]

For real. I doubt they would cancel it, but you never know I guess.

[@silviacervenakova6167]

👍

[@funnyanimals-dz9rj]

lmaoooo

[@hmedia101]

Huge tutorial to achieve virtually nothing

[@normwright4894]

all that work for that useless output.........you are easily pleased--------what a time waster