How to disable mouse scroll wheel scaling with Google Maps API

Daniel's code does the job (thanks a heap!). But I wanted to disable zooming completely. I found I had to use all four of these options to do so:

{
  zoom: 14,                        // Set the zoom level manually
  zoomControl: false,
  scaleControl: false,
  scrollwheel: false,
  disableDoubleClickZoom: true,
  ...
}

See: MapOptions object specification

In version 3 of the Maps API you can simply set the scrollwheel option to false within the MapOptions properties:

options = $.extend({
    scrollwheel: false,
    navigationControl: false,
    mapTypeControl: false,
    scaleControl: false,
    draggable: false,
    mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
}, options);

If you were using version 2 of the Maps API you would have had to use the disableScrollWheelZoom() API call as follows:

map.disableScrollWheelZoom();

The scrollwheel zooming is enabled by default in version 3 of the Maps API, but in version 2 it is disabled unless explicitly enabled with the enableScrollWheelZoom() API call.