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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???
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.