I thought they were supposed to be smart at Google

[badcompany]

Maybe I'm missing something but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to minimize the search bar which covers a significant portion of the map.

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/thinlizzy21/4E0ABAB8-A795-4B3E-AA65-7EA877DF388E_zps8xuots2y.png (http://s95.photobucket.com/user/thinlizzy21/media/4E0ABAB8-A795-4B3E-AA65-7EA877DF388E_zps8xuots2y.png.html)

[Dave Schwartz]

Can you scroll the center of the map?