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Google Maps zoom scales

April 18th, 2010 1 comment

I couldn’t find this information today when I needed, so I thought I’d share. If it’s in the Google maps documentation, then I missed it.

If you want to zoom a map to fit a particular distance as tightly as possible, you need to know the scale of each of the 19 levels. In metres per pixel, I worked them out to be as follows: Read more…