marker metadata / opening infowindow

[Mike]

Hi, I have more of an approach question, than a code question.

Let's say I have 2 webpages (page a & page b) on the same domain.

User is on page a. They click a link. I'd like to take the user to page b, and open an info window.

My thought was to add some sort of id, or data attribute to a marker, and then, when the user gets to page B, an event fires opening the correct point/infowindow.

I read something about marker metadata:   marker.metadata = {type: "point", id: 1};

But I am confused at to what this actually does. In the resulting html/map, is the marker an element with this id?

Thanks in advance for any shedding of the light!

-Mike

[Pil]

No metadata!
You may assign any id you'd like to your marker objects.
Markers are objects and id's may be properties of them, so it's
possible to assign any property you may have in mind, for example

var marker = new google.maps.Marker();
marker.id = "myid";

[Rossko]

But a word of warning ... avoid clashes with the API internal marker
properties, which might take the form of marker.x or marker.ab and
also change from time to time. Just invent a property Google are
unlikely ever to use
marker.My_id
marker.Our_Metadata