I'm a total amatuer and inherited this site from another developer. What this site does is allows user to click on a point on the google map and it opens a java applet that does this pano thing. Hard to explain, so check out the site here and click on an icon in the map: http://www.aqua.wisc.edu/glct/

So the problem is when you click the "back to map" in the panorama page, it totally refreshes the google map. This is bad, because the user spends a lot of time panning and zooming on the map to find there area of interest and when they return to the map, that have to start the whole map navigation process over again. So my question is, are there any quick fixes for this? Is there some way I could modify the iframe so it doesn't refresh when you return to it? Thanks and let me know if I need to clarify anything.

My advice would be to read the API documentation. There's a method called savePosition() and another called returnToSavedPosition() in the Google Maps API:

http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html

If I were looking at this I'd try to add an onclick event on the link in the InfoWiindow to save the current map state. Then I'd check returnToSavedPosition() on the body onload call. I don't think it needs a postback, just a way of saving the current view on the client, which can be recalled as the map is loaded.

You might get some good responses if you post this to the API Group:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API