Self-Ping?

I have one major annoyance with Roll20.  In all other respects, it's a great system.  Finding my character, or other characters on the map under high zoom level. The GM can 'ping' us so the map takes us that location. But I find that distracting, and disruptive to the flow of the game. Is there any way to find a character on the map?  Some Secret Squirrel key combination, or mouse action? Steve  -   Roll20 Campaign, The Big Nate Showdown in Low Town (GURPS Fantasy - Killing Things & Taking Their Stuff 3d6 Style)

At this time there is not although some people have suggested it.  Here is an alternate way for you and your GM to help you find your token without shift+pinging you to the location:  1) Your GM is looking at the entire map (low zoom) 2) You ping your viewing location to let him know where you are currently looking. 3) He uses the measurement tool to indicate a line from your ping to your token.  4) You scroll to that location.  While not what you are looking for I hope it helps. - Gauss

If there was an api function for player views, this would be very easy for the community to code?

Don't think there is. I saw a Script a while ago, that basically creates a giant aura around the token and then shrinks it. that way you can follow the aura to the token. That doesn't help though if you're look at the blackness of Fog of War or Dynamic Lighting.

It looks like, that as of Aug 31st 2013, there was a programming changing that lessens the need for a self-ping. Now when I re-size the map, the view stays in place.  Maybe the powers-that-be have changed the programming so the view stays centered where it was.