PhantomJS proof-of-concept that Google Maps can be used

gmSearch.js

var page = require('webpage').create(),
	classical = true;

// This userAgent works good with GM
//page.settings.userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.41 Safari/535.1';
page.viewportSize = {
	width: 1280,
	height: 800
};

page.onError = function(msg, trace) {

  var msgStack = ['ERROR: ' + msg];

  if (trace && trace.length) {
    msgStack.push('TRACE:');
    trace.forEach(function(t) {
      msgStack.push(' -> ' + t.file + ': ' + t.line + (t.function ? ' (in function "' + t.function +'")' : ''));
    });
  }

  console.error(msgStack.join('\n'));
};

page.onConsoleMessage = function(msg) {
	console.log('Msg: ', msg);
};

function click(selector){
	page.evaluate(function(selector){
		// taken from here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15948355
		var ev = document.createEvent("MouseEvent");
		ev.initMouseEvent(
			"click",
			true /* bubble */, true /* cancelable */,
			window, null,
			0, 0, 0, 0, /* coordinates */
			false, false, false, false, /* modifier keys */
			0 /*left*/, null
		);
		document.querySelector(selector).dispatchEvent(ev);
	}, selector);
}

function type(text){
	page.evaluate(function(text, classical){
		var el = document.querySelector(classical ? "#gbqfq" : "#searchboxinput");
		el.value = text;
		el.focus();
	}, text, classical);
	page.sendEvent('keypress', page.event.key.Enter); // works
	//page.sendEvent('keypress', page.event.key.Backspace); // doesn't work*/
}

page.open("https://www.google.com/maps", function (status) {
	if (status !== 'success') {
		console.log('Unable to access network');
		phantom.exit();
	} else {
		if (classical) {
			click("#paneltoggle2");
		}
		setTimeout(function(){
			page.render("test53_1.png");
			click(classical ? "#mv-primary-container > .mv-primary" : "button.widget-minimap-shim");
		}, 1000); // +1 sec
		setTimeout(function(){
			page.render("test53_2.png");
			type("tokio");
		}, 11000); //+10 sec
		setTimeout(function(){
			if (classical) {
				click("#paneltoggle2");
			}
		}, 16000); //+5 sec
		setTimeout(function(){
			page.render("test53_3.png");
			phantom.exit();
		}, 21000); //+5 sec
	}
});