Newly crafted maps should be 1:1 and fully zoomed in, allowing them to be re-crafted to zoom out.

However, recent Spigot builds seem to generate them with the wrong configuration.

This was tested on a clean build of Spigot with no plugins, in the default world.

Vanilla: Level 0/4, 1:1
Spigot: Level 3/4, 1:8