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Luke
Luke

Reputation: 21236

Obtaining a v2 Google Maps API key

It seems that in between the development of my website and the go-live (now) Google has phased out the Google Maps v2 API. I'm all for progress but to rewrite all my map code seems to be a bit too much for me to handle at this point in time.

Is it sill possible to obtain a Google Maps v2 API key in some hidden corner of the web?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 32127

Answers (1)

Andrew Leach
Andrew Leach

Reputation: 12973

Get a new Console key from https://code.google.com/apis/console as described in the Version 3 docs at https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/tutorial#api_key. Console keys work with Version 2 and provide the benefits of statistics reporting.

It's against the Terms to use the API without a key, and in fact this won't work on domains which aren't Google's like http://codethink.no-ip.org/mapHacks.html. The webcache version of that page works because it's on a Google domain.

Upvotes: 14

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