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Zoom Levels

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When you display your fire eagle badge, the embedded map tries to pick the best zoom level for your location’s bounding box. This depends on how granular your location is (we know you are on 123 Main st vs we know you are in the state of Nevada) but it also tries to show the best zoom level relative to the quality of map data. When this goes horribly wrong you get something like this:

new fire eagle badge feature

lame++. Well now when I screw up you can pass a zoom level argument to the badge and hard code the zoom level you’d like. Find this line in your badge’s HTML:

src="http://www.txtst.com/fireeagle_badge/fireeagle_badge.php?k=5h3z8nmt97qbdj&timezone=Greenwich+Mean+Time"

and change it to this:

src="http://www.txtst.com/fireeagle_badge/fireeagle_badge.php?k=5h3z8nmt97qbdj&timezone=Greenwich+Mean+Time&zoom=4"

Mess around until you find a numeric zoom level that works well with your map.

Enjoy!

Written by mb

October 8th, 2008 at 9:34 am

Posted in Fire Eagle Badge

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