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Magic Mouse - Google maps zooms WAY to fast

I like the magic mouse that came with my 27" iMac. Just one weird thing, when using the "scroll wheel" gesture to zoom in google maps, it zooms way too fast! Unless you make a very careful gesture you shoot from fully zoomed in to fully zoomed out so fast you can't control it.

This isn't a problem in other apps, and normal scrolling of windows seems to work at pretty much normal speed too. Has anyone found a way to fix this?

27" imac i7, 4gb, Mac OS X (10.6.2), 15" Powerbook, iPhone

Posted on Dec 26, 2009 11:30 AM

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Dec 27, 2009 3:58 AM in response to Greg Corson

I too have this problem and have tried all different settings for the mouse scroll speed etc. I believe it is because the mouse scroll has focus on the zoom bar at the left of the map and consequently this moves up and down a long way with the slightest finger touch. Very irritating but can't see how it can be avoided other than just manipulating the zoom bar with a left mouse click and drag.

Dec 28, 2009 11:59 PM in response to Greg Corson

I'm having this problem too. Left and right swipes also seem to zoom in/out, even accidental swipes that wouldn't normally move the screen more than a few pixels.

My largest problem is with accidental swipes zooming me in/out to the closest/farthest map. For me, a fix would be to only allow two-finger scrolling, but unfortunately this is not an option in the control panel.

Jan 2, 2010 2:04 AM in response to Wayne Stanford

Have the same issue. Very annoying.

Google Maps allows to disable the wheel via Javascript.
http://code.davidjanes.com/blog/2008/11/14/how-to-enabledisable-mouse-wheel-acti ons-on-your-map/
gives some hints. There is also a Greasemonkey script to do this:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/48737
I tried to apply this within Safari, but did not succeed.
Neither "disableScrollWheelZoom" nor "Sva" seem to work with
gApplication.getMap()
May be someone else can help here.

Jan 10, 2010 1:52 PM in response to iaha28

I'm another that will say, it drives me bananas!! I love the mouse otherwise, but it's just way too touchy, and when attempting to just move around on the map, it instead ends up zooming way in our out, many times when just moving the mouse across the web page to get to another button, textbox etc.
I know there's a few other examples where this happens, but I can't think iof it right off. Will report back next time I encounter it.
It does seem most sensitive with Google Maps than anything else; Via Safari, or Firefox/opera etc.
Be nice if they resolve this, so I can stop yelling obscenities when getting driving directions. 8)

Magic Mouse - Google maps zooms WAY to fast

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