I have yet to encounter an embedded map that could not have better been - a static image - a table of addresses with an external map link It's not just the i

I have yet to encounter an embedded map that could not have better been - a static image - a table of addresses with an external map link It's not just the idea of wheeling around in some 256x256 box added at the last minute to a Contact Us page, the entire concept of an embeddable map is shit Their main purpose seems to be to add 1 second to page loads across the web, and feed more clickstream back to the mothership The main exception to this I can think of right now is Flightaware, but even that does not require such detailed rendering