Say you are generating a multi worksheet spreadsheet and want to link your users into a specific worksheet via shared link.
For example:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgLNyeoMpvoYdDlzcGw1MVRXM0hiemd6V3VXYWFGb2c#gid=2
While you can generate the base URL, which will load the default spreadsheet, there is no way to query for the GID.