A hands-on tutorial showing how to create lightweight, cinematic scroll-driven SVG map animations with GSAP using path drawing, motion tracking, and camera-like zoom effects—without relying on third-party map APIs.

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A hands-on tutorial for building scroll-driven SVG map animations using GSAP. Covers setting up a responsive SVG stage with a map image, drawing a route path with DrawSVGPlugin, animating a marker along the path with MotionPathPlugin, and creating cinematic camera-like zoom and pan effects tied to scroll progress via ScrollTrigger. Includes full HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code with two progressively enhanced CodePen demos, plus ideas for extending the technique to other use cases like diagrams or travel photo layouts.

Creating Scroll-Driven SVG Map Animations with GSAP