Save Google map to jpeg using PHP?

Is it even possible? I am implementing an export to pdf functionality for a pile开发者_运维问答 of data, one of which is a Google map with a marker.

Thank you.

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I think you are looking for this: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/

you just need the url and the google api returns the google maps excerpt as a png file