Setting the initial map extent in the Google Maps API

PaulHuffman — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 21:24:40 GMT

I created a map app with the Google Map API to display one of my map services on a Google Map basemap. I'd like to have the map app start with a map extent closer to the extent of my map service rather than the whole globe. Sure, Google Map API is completely documented and I can find that the initial map extent is a property of the class esri.arcgis.gmaps.DynamicMapServiceLayer But I'm having trouble figuring out what the syntax is to add a property to the class is. Are there any examples online?

When I did this with an ESRI online basemap my initial extent was set with

var initExtent = new esri.geometry.Extent({"xmin":-13785833.373418408,"ymin":5680675.316201857,"xmax":-13006175.684909647,"ymax":6045127.06706556,"spatialReference":{"wkid":102100}});
        map = new esri.Map("map",{extent:initExtent});

I tried this with the Google MAP API but I get an syntax error right away in my IDE:

var dynamicMap = new esri.arcgis.gmaps.DynamicMapServiceLayer
        ("http://host119.yakama.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/facilitiesWGSWebMer2/MapServer",
        null, 0.75, dynmapcallback, initialExtent{"xmin":-13785833.373418408,"ymin":5680675.316201857,"xmax":-13006175.684909647,"ymax":6045127.06706556,"spatialReference":{"wkid":102100}});

Re: Setting the initial map extent in the Google Maps API

PaulHuffman — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:10:34 GMT

I found some good examples of dealing with the Goggle Map API at
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/v2/examples/index.html.
The example at
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/v2/examples/map-markers.html
was enough to show me how to set the map extent when generating the new
Google Map instance, rather than when adding the
DynamicMapServiceLayer. Now I have something that is working better.

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Setting the initial map extent in the Google Maps API

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