On Tue, Jun 29 2010, Memnon Anon wrote:

> It would be nice the initial zoom level of a map would be set right at
> the beginning.

The problem is that this is not possible. The zoom level, if not
specified, is determined automatically by Google Maps, and we have no
clue about its value.

Therefore you need to press 'w' (with an eventual prefix) to set a first
zoom level.

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Julien Danjou
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