<p>I've no idea what home_zoom is there for, or if it's ever been used for anything, but the idea of remembering the zoom seems very odd UI to me.</p>
<p>I mean it's not at all obvious to me that anybody would expect that - when I'm setting my home location I normally zoom right in to set it accurately and it would never occur to me that the result would be that my home location would always be shown at high zoom.</p>
<p>So while it may be desirable to have a way to set the "home zoom" it probably needs to be more sophisticated than just remembering what zoom the map happened to be on when you picked a home location.</p>

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