Let's say I embed a Google Map in a webpage. The map has markers highlighting a series of places in it, and the webpage has text listing those places. I want the user to be able to click on a link in the text, and have the map center automatically in the corresponding marker (which would also get highlighted).
How can I do this? From what I've read, you can certainly do it with Google Maps' Javascript API, but I was wondering if you could do it too by embedding a map created with Google My Maps. This would make things easier for me: both the process of creating the map, and also of embedding and interfacing it with the rest of the HTML code.
So, I guess that what I'm asking is: can I do what I've described without resorting to the Javascript API (and preferably using My Maps)?
(Crossposted from Stack Overflow, where I was downvoted and nobody answered; I later thought that perhaps I'd have a better chance here).