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Do you have a suggested alternative? Personally I love scroll to zoom on maps, find it a really natural action.

In many other apps (e.g., web browsers, Office apps) Control+Wheel is used for zoom. Any modifier key with the wheel would be fine.

What would the wheel do otherwise? I don't want the scroll wheel to pan vertically. I guess doing nothing is acceptable, but I honestly zoom enough that I actually prefer the one handed action on my computer. I probably would just go back to double clicking if scrolling to zoom required a modifier, and that's worse UX because there's all sorts of stuff I could accidentally click on when double clicking to zoom.

If they do choose to go with a modifier, I hope it's not control, because I hate accidentally zooming the page with the browser's zoom since it breaks nearly every page out there.

But this would compete with the browser zoom

Ugh, terrible UX. No, makes no sense. Users expect to use maps with scroll to zoom.

If you are going to have a Google Map on a contact us page it is better to not bother.

A static map may be underwhelming for the tech people but it is better. No need to load the Google plugin so +3s page load, so better search. Plus, if someone wants the map the link around the image can take them to Google Maps and they can then type in directions, see your reviews and bring actual business your way.

Cutting down the bloat helps, sometimes simpler is better.

At the moment I have a project where I am trimming the maps out of the footer of the home page.

The static maps I am putting in place have been saved with srcset images so the pin is in the middle with mobile and off to one side with desktop. mod_pagespeed does the image resizing so that the images a customer sees are always bandwidth friendly. Why have 3s of download (or more) when you can have a 12k image come down the same http2 connection?

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