Making an Indiana Jones like travelling scene with iMovie

Hi,
is it somehow possible to make a travelling scene like in Indiana Jones? I am aware of the fact that there is the animated map solution build in iMovie but I don't like it much because:
1) You cannot use any map but the ones Apple gives you there.
2) Only straight lines between 2 destinations are possible and I like to use arbitrary paths or even a GPS file.
So at a glance:
I would like to take an image file (which in my case shows a map), have an arbitrary path on it (which would connect 2 destinations) and animate the path to extend over time from start to the end. Does anybody know if this is possible with iMovie? If not, any suggestions what other program I could use?
Thanks in advance
Phil

I made a quick 'n dirty demo:
http://youtu.be/cdejMJyW17Q
that is a 2min-done Motion5 Project:
drag in the map
drag in the plane
'paint' the route as a bezier
apply behavior to plane, follow that line
for cosmetics: turn to direction ...
the plug-in, Motion-Master Marc Spencer demoed, allows to customize all kind of parameters in FCPX - without installing/purchasing Motion.
Motion5 is a standalone app (=can be used as 'effect machine' for iMovie projects either), but is also 'the mother' for all sort of effects in FCPX. You can open any FCPX-effect in Motion5, or create effects to be used in FCPX. The daily growing list of free effects has its source here ...

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