Some panel maps are getting absurdly zoomed out

[JS Girard]

Noticed this today: it looks as though in Quebec, the level of zoom shown in the right-hand panel is variable. Compare:

But:

After investigating, this appears to be dependent primarily on the color/icon of the pin?? Grey pins with no icons (i.e. excluding education establishments) are zoomed out, but most other pins get zoomed in normally:

• pink hotels pins
• orange Restaurants pins
• red drugstore etc. pins
• green parks etc. pins
• Blue retail pins
  • Oddly enough, supermarkets are zoomed out unless they have certain secondary categories (e.g. "grocery store")...

Yet in Montréal or Quebec City I can hardly find anything that's zoomed out! And them you stumble across stuff like this:

 

[JoyHawkins]

Interesting. I'll keep an eye out for this.

 

[Brian - TGL]

I know the map zooms out when the GBP has a regional service area added. Even if there is a visible address they can add a province/state/country in the service area but that still shows the zoomed out map when you click the thumbnail, in the case of the ones you pointed out, when you click the thumbnail it goes to the correct zoomed in version.

 

[JS Girard]

[ignore. I misunderstood Brian's post]

 

[Stefan Somborac]

I think @Brian - TGL is correct.

The Lexus dealer has indicated service areas.

I can't find the specific Super C store shown in your screenshot but if you share the address I'd be happy to test. Hypothesis: Super C profiles with service areas show this zoomed-out view while profiles without a service area will show a more zoomed-in, "street level" map.

 

[JS Girard]

Can confirm! The Super C grocer has a service area!

Wow, Brian, that's a really clever deduction. I can't believe I didn't think of that...

 

[rustybrick]

hmm, but what about these that don't seem to have SABs? How do you know if they are an SAB? I mean the address is listed.

Google Search

Google Search

 

[JS Girard]

If you open them in the LSA view, you can confirm the presence of service areas:

 

[rustybrick]

Gotcha!

 

[Brian - TGL]

Can confirm! The Super C grocer has a service area!

Wow, Brian, that's a really clever deduction. I can't believe I didn't think of that...

We are about 100:1 ratio of all the times I see things that YOU figured out, it's about time I started putting some work in

 

[JoyHawkins]

If you open them in the LSA view,

Is there a URL parameter you add to get to this view?

 

[JS Girard]

Is there a URL parameter you add to get to this view?

Not really? I just plug in home service keywords until I manage to trigger the LSA view (remember: in Quebec, we don't have actual LSAs, but some keywords DO trigger the LSA view, if somewhat unreliably), and use the search field that is available on that page

In Quebec, it works kinda like an alternative to the Local Finder view (here is a search for "toy store"), but as I understand it, you don't quite get a generic search function in the "true" LSA view?

It's quite annoying because you can't make suggestions or request access in that view, and we haven»'t found a reliable way to jump into map view for SABs (for physical locations, clicking on the address will load the profile in normal gMaps).