I have a google map displayed in an iframe on a web page. I manipulate the map through scrolling and zooming etc. When The map is displaying what I want to see (location and zoom) how do you capture that data programmatically (using javascript for instance)? I want to have the user click a button which captures that data and can then use it in another application. An example of this would be when you are on a google maps page in a browser, that info is contained in the URL at the top of the browser page. As you navigate on a map zooming and scrolling, the URL updates accordingly.
You should be using the Google maps Javascript api, this allows you to programmatically set and get map data. check out this example: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/event-click-latlng