Get google.maps.Map instance from a HTMLElement

Question

I have an existing map on a page. I can select that element using something along the lines of document.getElementById() to get the HTMLElement javascript object. Is it possible

Answer 1

If you are using Google-map component from the Polymer project, you can get the existing map Dom like this:

var map = document.querySelector('google-map');

Once you have that, current instance of map can be accessed by:

var currentMapInstance = map.map;