Accessing google maps imagery from local services

I developed an application using google maps and was wondering if it is possible to access google maps imagery from the local service.

For example: I presume the service connects to maps.google.com by default. In China they have ditu.google.cn, Spain has maps.goo开发者_StackOverflow中文版gle.es and so on.

I am not asking about the map language. Which other post explained is determined by the browsers's locale settings. Are there local versions for http://www.google.com/jsapi, a setting in the map object or anything else I can use? Many thanks.

You can set a region parameter to the script tag to serve specific tiles and bias application behavior dependent on the locale.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/basics.html#Localization

(Scroll down to see Region Localization)