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user917670
user917670

Reputation: 871

Making the switch to maps.googleapis.com

so there was a blog post a few days back about switching to maps.googleapis.com from maps.google.com you can read about here.

http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/grab-bag-of-maps-api-news.html

As a consumer of Google maps API how does it affect me and what changes do I need to make. I know I just import one script file as follows:

<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?v=3.5&sensor=true" type="text/javascript"></script>

is it as trivial as changing the above one to 

<script src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.5&sensor=true" type="text/javascript"></script>

Even when I used maps.google.com my tiles were retrieved from maps.googleapis.com so I am not sure how this change will benefit me.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5995

Answers (1)

skarE
skarE

Reputation: 5890

The benefit of moving to maps.googleapis.com is that googleapis.com is a cookieless domain so it is more secure and will be a bit quicker because no cookies are sent.

Also it will avoid a extra redirect if Google decides to 302 maps.google.com to maps.googleapis.com

Upvotes: 6

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