Question

Is there any way to have a map’s placemark call a javascript method on the page that contains the map.

For example: Say we have a google map that has pins for our customers. If the sales operator clicks on the pin of CompanyA, could the containing page use javascript to identify that ConpanyA’s pin had been clicked. And show a quick report on that companies activities?

EDIT: sorry guys, should have mentioned that we wanted to build and load the placemarks via KML

Answer 1

Yes, you can hook up an event to the marker (I use the Marker Manager).

GEvent.addListener(marker,'click',function(){..your code..}) 

See the api doc here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GMarker (scroll down to the ‘Events’ section).