You may want to look at Odyssey.js:  http://cartodb.github.io/odyssey.js/

or

StoryMap.js:  http://storymap.knightlab.com/

Both of these seem to fit your use case pretty well.

David.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Just van den Broecke <j...@justobjects.nl>
wrote:

> I can recommend CesiumJS: https://cesiumjs.org, pure JavaScript using
> WebGL. Includes the NORAD Tracks Santa as a demo...Best, Just
>
>
> On 17-02-15 04:21, sally wrote:
>
>> I am reminded of NORAD tracks Santa.
>>
>> On Feb 16, 2015, at 7:21 PM, R E Sieber wrote:
>>
>>  Could do it in all in KML with the tour function.
>>>
>>> Or you could use the Mapbox API.
>>>
>>> Renee
>>>
>>> On 2015-02-16, 9:58 PM, Chris Spurgeon wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's up wankers?
>>>>
>>>> I need to knock out a thingy that shows a map or Google Earth type of
>>>> display where we automatically zoom around from place to place and briefly
>>>> show some info at each place. You know the type of thing I mean... we zoom
>>>> in on Paris, pause while a pop-up appears with some Paris-related info,
>>>> fade the pop-up out, then zoom out and over to Brisbane, then zoom in there
>>>> and display a pop-up with some Australia info, etc.
>>>>
>>>> I bet people on this list have made this type of things dozens of
>>>> times. But I'm hoping some of you can give me some suggestions as to which
>>>> technologies/libraries I should use, and maybe point me to some relevant
>>>> tutorials or examples.
>>>>
>>>> I'm a fine JavaScript and processing Programmer so am comfortable in
>>>> either of those two languages. (I can get by in python and perl if the
>>>> method of choice requires one of those languages).
>>>>
>>>> This thing can be browser based, Google Earth based, or a stand alone
>>>> app, whichever is the least hassle.
>>>>
>>>> How do you think I should proceed?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks everyone!
>>>>
>>>> Chris Spurgeon
>>>>
>>>> PS> At first investigation I thought the Google Earth API might be the
>>>> way to go, but I read that they're killing it off. Does that change things?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chris Spurgeon
>>>> ch...@spurgeonworld.com
>>>> twitter.com/chrisspurgeon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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