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Answer 1

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I don't know if you can get it to behave exactly like their main Maps app, but this guy seems to have figured out a way to reproduce it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/816100/google-maps-zoomout-pan-zoomin-animation

It looks like the continuous zoom was available in v2 but I can't find much reference to zooming at all in v3. Curious... http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/v2/reference.html#GMap2

Cory Larson 2010-07-20 11:51:49

Will search and see if i can find anything

Pintac 2010-07-20 14:17:37

Answer 2

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In the v2 API you could call the GMap2.enableContinuousZoom() method to enable this feature. In the v3 API there is no such method as this feature is enabled by default in browsers that support it.

Source and further reading: Issue 2079: Continuous zoom: Comment #8

I tried the following short example in Chrome 5.0.375.99 and Firefox 3.6.6 (both for Mac), and only the map in Chrome came with continuous zoom enabled:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> 
<head> 
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> 
  <title>Google Maps v3 Continuous Zoom</title> 
  <script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false" 
          type="text/javascript"></script>
</head> 
<body> 
  <div id="map" style="width: 500px; height: 400px;"></div>

  <script type="text/javascript">

    var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), {
      zoom: 6,
      center: new google.maps.LatLng(-41.00, 174.00),
      mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
    });

  </script>

</body>
</html>

Daniel Vassallo 2010-07-20 12:38:41

thanks. I tried google maps site on ie8 and it has that ContinuousZoomis there a option i must set.

Pintac 2010-07-20 14:23:26

@Pintac: No there is no option to set in the v3 API. There is a discussion [here](http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=2079) on the fact that the maps.google.com site has this continuous zoom effect in more browsers than in maps using the v3 API. Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do at the moment.

Daniel Vassallo 2010-07-20 17:39:35

oooh i see thanks

Pintac 2010-07-21 14:26:35

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