Drag and drop tool

When your making a drag and drop tool with tiles that can stretch on a canvas that spanse longer that the viewport, how does the user get to the next section while dragging? This is one way I came up with, a little hot spot hover area that would hop them over a section if they hold it there for 1.5 seconds. Similar to Apples dragging an object into a folder, if you hold for a moment the folder will open and you can keep opening folders or drop it... We have to make these sort of things because users only have one point they can control, and if they want to do two things at once we need to indulge them in interesting ways. Curious if others have run into this issue and how they solved for it.