Google Maps: Show Separate Maps at Same Scale and Map Center?

Factual Questions
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I have a 3-week road trip route that I took recently. I have all the segments of the trip mapped out, but with Google Maps limiting to 10 ‘stops’, the entire trip takes 10 separate maps to show. Is there a way to scale and orient all 12 maps such that they are all scaled and oriented exactly the same? Meaning, when I change to each map, the center of all maps is the same, as are the scales (zoom) for all maps.

I want to CTRL-PAGE UP/DOWN to each browser tab, which holds each separate map, so as to show the entire trip like a flip book animation (image, flip book animation: https://www.google.com/search?q=flip+book+animation&biw=1474&bih=795&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjb2oOwhKbPAhXEbj4KHZMDAUQQ_AUIBygC#imgrc=OdG_GqpKVy96rM%3A).

How can that be done in Google Maps? I imagine there may be some ‘code’ to append to each URL that does that?

Or is there another, better solution to show my entire trip?

Here are the 10 separate maps and how they look. The actual addresses have been disguised a little.

  1. [https://goo.gl/maps/VXGd861CLgz](https://goo.gl/maps/vAihVF2UdwJ2)

  2. https://goo.gl/maps/jMKdCoURLoy

  3. https://goo.gl/maps/yz7EtXpKUsq

  4. [https://goo.gl/maps/iXk4JqBuaAA2](https://goo.gl/maps/ABDEcgV5C6o)

  5. https://goo.gl/maps/3wVxaMTak5n

  6. https://goo.gl/maps/aPkkLLU3byr

  7. https://goo.gl/maps/4826L2HLVWU2

  8. https://goo.gl/maps/DELau7hxQ8x

  9. https://goo.gl/maps/LQEJtaZUJy12
  10. Google Maps
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I don’t know if one of those is your home address or not and if you want people to see that.

Looks like you can’t do this anymore without some API coding. It looks like both Bing Maps and Mapquest allows for 25, if that helps.

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You can append “,Nz” to the URL, where N is a number representing the zoom scale. Eg. 5z will show roughly the whole US, depending on your window size, while 7z shows a few hundred miles, 14z shows a few blocks, etc.

I’m not sure what you mean by “the center of all maps is the same”. Obviously the map centers will be different if they’re showing different places. You use “@LAT,LON” to specify a longitude and latitude.

–Mark

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The OP wants the map extent (“center” plus scale, i.e. zoom level) to be the same in each map, but the highlighted places/routes to change within that extent. I think your @LAT,LON plus your Nz commands will do the trick – that’s awesome, thanks!

5

Yes that is what I want. I’ll give it a try.

6

I changed it, thanks.

7

Google maps are all Mercator projection, so you can concatenate them, even crossing a continent.

Mercator is a mixed blessing, a but it makes the API and much of what they do vastly easier. Makes some other useful things close to impossible.

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I understand you have 10 maps made & saved just like you want to see them:

I Put them all in one

Oppend Windows explorer or the bookmark list and opened the folder and hit ‘open all in tabs’ bookmark folder. ( Win & 7 )

Now you can just hit the tab you want or hit ( Ctrl ) and ( Tab ) and hold then use the left / right arrows to select the frame you want next…

Or, you can do a screen grab and save as a jpg with Ifranview or some other, put them all in a folder and then open the folder, click on the first one or the one you want and ( if you are set to loop the folder ) in folder options, once you have opened one picture, the L / R arrows will take them in turn going either way.

If you use the URL’s like you did in the OP, then you can zoom in or out or check side trip info without going back which the jpg’s won’t do.

For a trip that big, I would set it up both ways and then teach the non- driver to use both methods.

YMMV

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Mark, thank you. I had the chance to try this yesterday. After some finagling I got it to work. Every map URL has the string “/@LAT,LON,Nz/” already there - in other words, any map displayed is centered at a LAT LON and at a Z. I had to find that in each URL and replace it with what I wanted. Fortunately the parameters are together in one string in the URL.

This LAT LON Z worked for me: /@35,-114,5z/

I encountered one problem in doing this. After changing the LAT LON Z and trying the new URL, the map would display with the old (and wrong) LAT LON Z. It’s as if it was cached and recalled from somewhere. It took awhile but I eventually got the desired /@35,-114,5z/ to persist. With 10 maps, that was an annoyance.