I\'ve been looking around for a solution to this problem, but i can\'t seem to find somthing that solves this. The closest i get is this thread. But this doesn\'t work.
Simple solution: Add your "user marker" to the bounds, do fitBounds, then decrement the resulting zoom by 1 and center on that marker.
bounds.extend(userCenterMarker.getPosition());
map.fitBounds(bounds);
google.maps.event.addListenerOnce(map,'bounds_changed', function() {
map.setZoom(map.getZoom()-1);
});
working fiddle
More complex solution: Center on the "user marker", check to see if the marker bounds is completely included in the map's current bounds (map.getBounds().contains(markerBounds)
), if not, decrement the zoom level by 1.