Custom Initial Zoom Level Not Honored

WillCorbett23

I'm having an issue with Story Maps honoring my custom initial zoom level. This Story Map advertises properties that are under tax foreclosure by our county tax department. I have selected Custom - Town for the initial zoom level, but it reverts to automatic regardless of how may points I have created. Once a property is selected in the map tour, it then correctly shows the custom level that I have selected for each particular property. If I only have one property in the listing, then my initial view is the entire world, even though I am using a organizational base map. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Wilson County Tax Office Foreclosure Properties Map 

Thanks for the help

Will

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oevans_storymaps

Hi @DanielBurmester -- There is currently not a way for you to set the initial extent that shows when a map tour first comes into view. The map will always show the extent of all points in the tour.

What you currently have is a special case -- when there is only one point in the tour, there's no way for the builder to determine the initial extent (the minimum bounding box around a single point is a polygon of zero area). If you add another location, you'll see the initial extent update to a more appropriate scale.

If you're interested in having a way to manually set the initial extent/zoom level, there is an idea here that you can vote for to show your support for this enhancement.