This week's Motion Magic Under 5 covers exactly that topic and demonstrates how easy this task is to accomplish in Motion. A shape, a camera, and a couple of behaviors is all it takes to create a polished custom animation.
Once you've imported your map in Motion, you can use the Bezier tool to draw a path with as many points as needed, and you can have the line through the points be angled or curved through each point by adjusting Bezier handles. You then have full control over the look of the line: color, width, edge hardness...you can even add extrude and indent filters for a 3D look. And because shapes that are set to the Airbrush brush type become paint strokes, which look like solid lines but are actually composed of individual dots known as "dabs". You can take advantage of this fact to create a dotted line rather than a solid one.
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