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Eight map and data animations with exact presets: globe-to-country dive, satellite flyover between two places, vector route map, watercolor travel route, self-drawing bar and line chart, count-up statistic, versus timeline (two numbers diverging over the years) and an audio visualizer (silk ribbons, wireframe terrain, ASCII stream). Presets give camera paths on the van Wijk zoom-pan curve, flight durations, line widths, chart rules (bars from zero, one accent series, direct labels), number formats and count-up easing, and FFT sizes, log bands and attack/release for audio, from Heer & Robertson's animation study, MapLibre and Mapbox, Datawrapper, John Burn-Murdoch (FT), the W3C Web Audio spec and MilkDrop. Map credits and tile licences are part of every preset. Use when a video needs an animated travel map, a route between cities, a flyover, an animated chart or statistic, or a music visualizer. NOT for interactive web maps or dashboards.

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# Maps and data motion: travel maps, charts, counters and audio visualizers

Eight animations where the data or the place is the story. One paused timeline drives the camera, the numbers and the audio bands, so a frame renders the same on every pass, and the map credits are designed in rather than pasted on.

## Gates

- **Licensed tiles and credits.** Vector maps from Natural Earth (public domain) need no credit. Satellite and street tiles need the provider's plan and its credit string on screen; never render from tile.openstreetmap.org.
- **The person's real numbers.** Charts and counters show data the person gives you, with its source; never round a number into a different claim.
- **Seek-safe.** Every value is a function of timeline time; randomness is seeded by frame. No `Date.now()`, `requestAnimationFrame` or unseeded `Math.random()`.
- **No credits here.** These templates render locally for free. Generated footage, voice or music is the varg-ai skill: call `estimate_cost` and wait for the person's approval before any generation.

## Pick a template

8 templates, 25 presets. Each reference file has the same sections: how the pros do it (every rule cited), presets, timing and numbers, how to build it, mistakes that look amateur, sources. Each JSON file holds the same presets as machine-readable values.