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What is the difference between scrolling and panning? Is panning identified as the action of dragging the image/background, while scrolling is only when you use scroll bars?
And, what is the difference between dragging and panning?
When I drag the map of google maps, which term is appropriate, dragging or panning???
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Panning in still photography refers to the technique of opening the camera shutter and then horizontally moving the camera before the shutter closes.
Moving the camera to capture moving objects. “Panning, as the name would suggest, is side-to-side motion,” says Carlson. He notes that the lateral movement and placement of the camera is directly responsible for the blurry, motion-heavy effect associated with panning.
Panning allows the user to scroll the map in any direction. This is useful when you wish to view the area immediately adjacent to the area currently shown on the screen. To pan the map, perform the following steps: 1. Using the pointer, click the map and drag the pointer in the direction you wish to pan the map.
To criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly. Panverb.
Scrolling typically involves scrollbars or a scroll-wheel on a mouse, but I have heard people refer to panning a map as scrolling as well (I would argue incorrectly).
Panning is exactly as you describe it - action of dragging the map (keeping it at the same scale, as opposed to zooming, which changes the scale level).
Dragging = Panning as you refer to them.
So what's the right word to use? Well, Google (and others) use the term pan/panning in their mapping APIs and pan/panning has widespread historical use in GIS terminology. So, technically-speaking, I would argue that pan/panning wins, but, generally-speaking, this is really just a difference in terminology.
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