Corporate Website Design - Make a Static Custom Map or Google Maps

Could some one please kindly advise on the following:
What is considered more professional if you are designing a corporate Website.
1. To design a custom map that shows each rail road crossing and traffic light on the way to the company. But due to the fact that it is a still image suffer from usability issues e.i. not being able to zoom beyond the drawn bitmap.
2. To embed a well known tool such as Google Maps (that allows world wide zooming), marking the location of the company building with a custom photo pin.
3. A combination of both points above displayed on one contact us site.
The above needs to be corporate design conform.
Thank you in advance for your advice.
AZ.

Hi Marian,
Thank you for the reply,
1. The audience consists of a the following according to the polls:
27.5% - Government Official
9.4% - Network/Association
8.8% - Student
8.7% - Academia
5.8% - NGO Representative
4.8% - IO/IGO Representative
3.4% - Media
2. It is an International Institute so they are from all over the world.
3. Map interaction is not needed but it would be an advantage considering the town in which the institute is located has a common name and often gets mistaken for another in a totally different country.
4. Interactive maps on cell phones and GPS
A map on the webpage is needed because:
A. The audience is so widespread e.i. from Government Officials to Students from all over the world including the LDC countries, that it is near impossible to predict what technologies are available to them, it is assumed that they will be able to access the internet.
B. Requested by the management.
Thank you in advance for your advise

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