idea Custom Initial Zoom in Map Tour in ArcGIS StoryMaps Ideas

Custom Initial Zoom in Map Tour

MGPGISUSER — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:56:21 GMT

Please allow us to set an initial zoom extent on our web maps in map tours. It's great to have custom zoom on each point, but we also want it for the initial map view.

Re: Custom Initial Zoom in Map Tour - Status changed to: Under Consideration

OwenGeo — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:48:25 GMT

Re: Custom Initial Zoom in Map Tour

OwenGeo — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:52:15 GMT

See additional use cases here: Setting an initial map extent when a map tour is l... - Esri Community

Re: Custom Initial Zoom in Map Tour

RebeccaNDiaz — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:04:08 GMT

I would love to have this option as well! I am creating a StoryMap (still in progress) for my company to visualize and describe key projects. To best highlight them, I would like the map to be centered over the Pacific Ocean and zoomed to crop out Europe, Africa, and most of Asia. However, it keeps defaulting to the entire world centered on Europe/Africa, which pushes all of our projects to the side of the frame.

This is the default:

Default Extent

This is what I want it to look like:

Desired Extent

Being able to set a custom extent would be a game changer!