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We use CiviCRM for our local residents association. We find the proximity search really useful for finding contacts within a small radius (100-150 meters). As it is small geographic area in which we operate with a lot of contacts (over 1800) searches can throw up a lot of contacts in a small area. When we Map Contacts on the search the resulting map is not clear as all the contacts are bunched together due to the default zoom level and we can't zoom in as we are maximum zoom, but we can zoom out. Is there a parameter where we can change the default zoom value when the map is first displayed?

On a Contact record display when we click on the map icon in the contact record, the zoom level is down at the lowest level and we could do with changing that to zoom out a little bit as default.

Hi davidunwinubs13,
rjb is right you need to edit  /templates/CRM/Contact/Form/Task/Map/Google.tpl file .
Following line  which is use to set defaultzoom value (around line -33 )

{assign var=defaultZoom value=12}
Hth
Sushant.

Farther down in the file look for map.setZoom. There are two places where it doesn't use the default zoom and instead I think it's trying to calculate the appropriate zoom level but I've noticed that it doesn't seem to work. Replace those with map.setZoom({$defaultZoom})

I made two changes:

Line 33: value=18 <== or whatever you're looking for to provide depth of zoom

Line 41: map.setMapTypeId(google.mapsTypeId.ROADMAP)  <== changed from TERRAIN based on David's hint

I found the map types here:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/maptypes

This works great for me.