How to check if Google Maps API is loaded?

Question

How to check if Google Maps API (v3) is loaded?

I do not want to execute mapping scripts if the API did not load due to internet connectivity problems (web page is h

Answer 1

I believe you can do this with an if(google && google.maps){ … }, unless you mean what is in this post, which is about Maps API V2, but someone updated it for v3 here.