Question

I’m wondering if it is possible to insert a map (with some lines) that was created on google.com into a javascript that uses the v3 api. I tried to read it up/google it, but I couldn’t find anything so I’m guessing it isn’t possible?

If yes, – how?

Answer 1

If you are talking about a map created in “My Places” on maps.google.com, those can be accessed as KML which can be displayed on a Google Maps API v3 map using KmlLayer

Map created in “My Places”

Same KML displayed on a Google Maps API v3 map with KmlLayer

To answer your additional question in the comments, the simplest way to do it is to take the example from the documentation and replace the URL with yours. So yes, you can just change the filename URL in the first line of the initialize function to the URL of your KML:

function initialize() {
  filename = 'http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ggeoxml/cta.kml';