Problem
Travel videos often contain dense movement within one city. Even after the adaptive long-hop camera work in #27, a compact urban route can remain visually close to a single point instead of revealing neighborhood-level movement.
The current camera modes have minimum viewport spans, and map tiles are capped at zoom level 15. Raising only the tile limit would not be enough because the viewport span also controls how close the camera can frame the route.
Proposed outcome
Allow the active journey camera to move closer when the visible route context is genuinely compact, while preserving useful geographic context at the beginning of the video.
This should be an adaptive framing change. It should not force every journey to start at the closest permitted zoom.
Acceptance criteria
Compatibility
Keep the current default camera mode and existing saved settings valid. No Timeline data or saved video migration should be required.
Related to #27, which addressed long hops keeping the camera wide for the entire video.
Problem
Travel videos often contain dense movement within one city. Even after the adaptive long-hop camera work in #27, a compact urban route can remain visually close to a single point instead of revealing neighborhood-level movement.
The current camera modes have minimum viewport spans, and map tiles are capped at zoom level 15. Raising only the tile limit would not be enough because the viewport span also controls how close the camera can frame the route.
Proposed outcome
Allow the active journey camera to move closer when the visible route context is genuinely compact, while preserving useful geographic context at the beginning of the video.
This should be an adaptive framing change. It should not force every journey to start at the closest permitted zoom.
Acceptance criteria
Compatibility
Keep the current default camera mode and existing saved settings valid. No Timeline data or saved video migration should be required.
Related to #27, which addressed long hops keeping the camera wide for the entire video.