Help for a new guy

[jamesintheworld]

Hello everyone!

I am very new to Google maps and I was wondering if you all could help me.

I have the Google code to put a map on my website but it is centered on a city in Texas In map mode . How would I set it so the map would center on Indonesia in satellite mode??

Thank you in advance for your help

James

[Gandolf]

This is actually the wrong forum. This is a Google Earth forum. That being said, someone on this forum might know, so I will let the question stand.

[jamesintheworld]

Sorry, I didn’t realize that I’m on the wrong forum, I just sort of posted at the first place I saw.

Whoops! I ment to say Google Earth not Google Maps

Could you please suggest a forum where I could figure out how to do this?


Thanks

[Gandolf]

Ok! Now I understand. I am guessing that you want the opening Globe to be centered over Indonesia? To do this go to the point you want and save it as default.kmz.

[jamesintheworld]

Thanks for your help. I’m not sure how to do that, could you tell me how to?

[christemb]

The easiest way is to turn the world an zoom in to that place you want to be shown when GE starts. Now select the placemark named "default" in the "Places"-Area. (normally in the middle of the left side in GE)
Select it with a right-click and do a left-click on the second option (snapshot view).
Done!

[jamesintheworld]

I thought that you can replace the default location in the code

This is where mine is pointing:

map.setCenter(new GLatLng(37.4419, -122.1419), 13);

(some city in Texas)