function/method in googlemaps api that returns if googlemaps has a digitized city map?

Question

I'm in need of a google maps api function/method that answer if google maps database has a certain city map digitized. Anyone knows if there is any function like that?

Answer 1

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "has a certain city map digitized" but the API does provide the getMaxZoomAtLatLng method that tells you the maximum zoom level for satellite imagery for a particular coordinate. You could use that method with, say, the centroid coordinates of a city to get an idea of how good Google's imagery is for different cities.

More details in this blog post (which confirms that no such method exists for the roadmap type, because there isn't a large variation in maximum zoom levels there).