Disable animated zoom

[Martin™]

Has anyone else noticed that all zoom changes are now animated and
have been animated since version 3.4 (i think)?

I was hoping that there would be an option that could be set to
disable animated zoom changes but have found nothing.

The API changelog mentions nothing about zoom changes being animated
from version 3.4 or any other version:

http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/wiki/JavascriptMapsAPIv3Changelog

So i have created a new feature request:

http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=3371

Anyone that would like this feature please star the request.

Thanks.

Martin.

[tinem]

On 26 Maj, 11:39, Martin™ <warwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that all zoom changes are now animated and
> have been animated since version 3.4 (i think)?
>
> I was hoping that there would be an option that could be set to
> disable animated zoom changes but have found nothing.
>
> The API changelog mentions nothing about zoom changes being animated
> from version 3.4 or any other version:
>

> http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/wiki/JavascriptMapsAPIv3Cha...

>
> So i have created a new feature request:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=3371
>
> Anyone that would like this feature please star the request.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martin.

Please vote for this. I have made a comment too and a link to my site
and problem.

/Tine

[Pil]

Hmm, I'd like to hear at least one argument. Why don't you like it?


I found that when the zoomlevel is very high it's no more possible to
switch to terrain view. If you try to click the terrain checkbox
nothing happens.

But I don't know if this is related to the changing tiles animation.

[Andrew C Leach]

On 26 May 2011 12:34, Pil <wol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I found that when the zoomlevel is very high it's no more possible to
> switch to terrain view. If you try to click the terrain checkbox
> nothing happens.
>
> But I don't know if this is related to the changing tiles animation.

Doesn't that simply mean that terrain is not available at that zoom level?

I'm currently using Firefox 3.6.17, and don't get an animated zoom.
The old tiles simply disappear and new tiles are loaded under the
markers. Which I'm happy about: I really dislike the animations.

[Chris Broadfoot]

Hi all - please star this one instead:

http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=3371

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[Andrew Leach]

On 26 May 2011 13:25, Chris Broadfoot <cb...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi all - please star this one instead:
> http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=3371

I think that should probably be
http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=3266

But are they the same issue? One is complaining that markers are
zoomed (which is fairly obviously a fault); the other is requesting a
way to stop zoom animation. They are related -- if a zoom is not
animated then markers are unlikely to be zoomed -- but it seems to me
that they are not the same at all.

If I am supporting the addition of a way to stop zoom animation
happening at all, will starring this issue be taken as simply
supporting fixing the marker-zoom fault (and thus ignoring the
animated zoom itself)?

[Pil]

Maybe you mean the first one here, namely #2079

http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/list?can=2&q=continuous+zoom&colspec=ID+Type+Status+Introduced+Fixed+Summary+Stars+ApiType+Internal&cells=tiles


Maybe there is a confusion about the mentioned animations. Since 3.4
(I guess) there is a new animation of the tiles when changing map
types. The old tiles are fading out and the new ones are fading in
simultaneously.

But the zoom animation (that was called continuous zoom in v2) is an
older feature. It's enabled by default in certain browers (mainly
Webkit browsers) and connot be disabled in these browsers and
accordingly not enabled in other browsers.

If continuous zoom was meant then there are already a few feature
requests concerning this issue. (See my link above).

On May 26, 2:25 pm, Chris Broadfoot <c...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi all - please star this one instead:http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=3371
>

> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Andrew C Leach <andrew.le...@bcs.org>wrote:

[Andrew Leach]

On 26 May 2011 13:40, Pil <wol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe you mean the first one here, namely #2079
>
> http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/list?can=2&q=continuous+zoom&colspec=ID+Type+Status+Introduced+Fixed+Summary+Stars+ApiType+Internal&cells=tiles
>
>
> Maybe there is a confusion about the mentioned animations. Since 3.4
> (I guess)  there is a new animation of the tiles when changing map
> types. The old tiles are fading out and the new ones are fading in
> simultaneously.
>
> But the zoom animation (that was called continuous zoom in v2) is an
> older feature. It's  enabled by default in certain browers (mainly
> Webkit browsers) and connot be disabled in these browsers and
> accordingly not enabled in other browsers.

Aha. OK. I don't see either in Firefox, and don't particularly want
to, although the fading version is preferable to the continuous
version.

I would have said a fading out/in was a "transition" not an animation;
the continuous zoom is an animation as it's designed to give the
impression of moving the viewpoint.

[Chris Broadfoot]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Andrew Leach <andrew....@gmail.com> wrote:

But are they the same issue? One is complaining that markers are
zoomed (which is fairly obviously a fault); the other is requesting a
way to stop zoom animation. They are related -- if a zoom is not
animated then markers are unlikely to be zoomed -- but it seems to me
that they are not the same at all.

Oops! Sorry about that. You're right, they're different issues.

Can you guys please clarify *why* you don't want the map to zoom the tiles?

Is it specifically the undesired effect you get from zooming in many levels?

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[Martin™]

I think the animation effect when zooming more than one level gets
crude and ugly!
(Although the animation effect is entirely dependant on what tiles are
visible before the zoom change, so the animation effect varies from
acceptable to crude).

Comment #5 on this page says much the same:

http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=3033&q=continuous%20zoom&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Introduced%20Fixed%20Summary%20Stars%20ApiType%20Internal

I think this is really a question though of personal taste - but it
would be good if developers could cater for a client's personal taste.

We have animated or non-animated options for changing the map center
so why not have similar options for changing the map zoom?

Martin.


On May 26, 3:04 pm, Chris Broadfoot <c...@google.com> wrote:

[Nianwei Liu]

>> Can you guys please clarify *why* you don't want the map to zoom the tiles?

In some cases, the map extent maybe controlled by another map component (may or may not be Google map), if we use the other map for a zoom, and then we switch back to this map, the more desirable effects would be see the correct extent immediately, instead of a zoom effects.