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that way will be cool and user friendly.

Also having the option to either pan or zoom with the scroll wheel would be useful.

"Add the ability to scroll using the mouse wheel, add it to default UI, and
let developers disable it."

that way will help user for zoom in & zoom out easier..

I need mouse wheel to operate zooming in and out.
I have wait for several weeks already.
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Mousewheel zooming please! :)

I can see that this issue is "Acknowledged", but is there any way to see when it
will be released?

When an issue in this tracker changes status (like from Acknowledged->Fixed), you'll
receive an email saying so. We generally don't reveal timelines for feature requests.

Pamela, for being fair: this is not feature request. This is backward compatibility
issue.
I think this is the only one blocking issue for migrating from GMap API v2 to v3.

#9, this is definitely not the only feature missing in v3. The overview page states
"The initial launch has a smaller feature set than that available in the V2 API."

#8 I appreciate the quick answer, right now I'm about to choose to either develop a
new site on the old v2 or the new v3 api, the site is scheduled to be in production
within this year, what are the pros and cones i have to consider?  

I'd recommend going with v2 API for now. It is the safer choice. I recently strated a
project with v3 and had to port back to v2 in a hurry because I ran into compatibility
issues with IE.

pleeeeaaaaassseeeeeeeee!!! ;)

Is it ready yet?  This is a great feature you must include it!

Nianwei created an open-source scroll wheel zoom implementation, you may want to try it
out:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-utility-library-
v3/browse_thread/thread/f421e075eb63d2ba

Really want to see this feature added onto V3 asap please....

Add it already :) Can't live without it.

It appears someone made a hack for it already. Seems to work fine for me.. but I'll
probably wait for the official release.

http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/scrollwheelzoom/examples/scrollwheelzoom.html

Please include this feature, it's an essential part of the UI.

I've implemented this
"http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/scrollwheelzoom/examples/scrollwheelzoom.html",
this is awesome, works fine.

I vote against!

Most people use scrollwheel for scrolling. If it suddenly makes something else, it
just confuses and the map position is lost. Not a good user experience.

Please do not include it in the default UI.

> I vote against
You have probably never used the map in fullscreen, when the scrollwheel is
essential. It is the most adequate way of inexact navigation: the default zoom
control is even worse user experience.

Mousewheel scrolling can (and, probably, should) be disabled by default, though, but
it better be a nice and google-supported way of scrolling, as current cludgy hacks to
enable it are terrible at best.

please ………………………………………………………………………………

According to the changelog, scroll wheel zoom support has been added. Does anyone know
how to enable it??

Sorry, it's not in the reference yet. Pass scrollwheel: true into Map Options.

Oh good! That is convenient.

However, if the whole page scrolls, it both zooms the map and scrolls the whole page at
the same time; it's a little distracting. On older versions of the API, it would only
zoom the map.

Or am I missing something?

Thanks Pamela! I'm having the same problem as Matthew though - in Chrome 2 and Firefox
3 the document scrolls when you zoom a map with the mouse wheel. It seems to work ok in
Internet Explorer 8 though.

Thanks for the report, I've filed that issue here:
http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=1605

Hey, my maps magically got scroll wheel support -- I didn't even touch my code. Talk
about convenient!

Well if you want scroll wheel support off, set "scrollwheel: false" in your map options.

This is the absolute worst user interface "feature" I've ever seen (with the possible
exception of blinking text... no, it's worse than blinking text!)

Now that it got included in the v3 api, and enabled by default, can someone please
come up with a way to DISABLE this monstrosity on ALL google map implementations at
all times (i.e. I DO NOT want the "Developer" to have ANY say in whether the SCROLL
wheel ZOOMS the map).

I'd rather not have to create my own map implementation for every website that embeds
google maps just to disable this horrid "option". Is there any way to disable it by
default?

Not that you deserve much help with that kind of attitude jaotto, but yes, you can
disable it.  If you would have bothered to read the thread or even glance up at the
comment just above yours you would see that "scrollwheel: false" in the map options
disables.

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or, jaotto, you could write a userscript to make gmaps behave just as you wish on any
page and share the link here instead of giving an attitude.

Love the troll.

It's not a _scroll_ wheel, it's _mouse_ wheel. Even though it's typically used for
scrolling the page, there is not much reason why NOT use it for more appropriate
actions, e.g. zooming the full-page map.

When there are reasons — it's messing up with the page navigation too much, or
something — the designer can decide whether it's worth enabling/disabling this
feature.

But I guess the more general issue here is that it's too hard and ugly to zoom the
map _without_ using the wheel at all.

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