Google Maps Lockdown
As you can see, Google Maps applications that don’t properly use the Google API are being deprived of their maps and prompted via javascript to get a proper API key:
The text of this threatening-and-somewhat-evil notice reads:
The Google Maps API key used on this website was registered for a different web site. You can generate a new key for this website at www.google.com/apis/maps/
So now it seems that Google isn’t quite so friendly to people who want to utilize their services by scraping maps. “Don’t be evil” continues to fall to the wayside…
This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005 at 1:09 pm and is tagged with google maps, wayside, google, api, www google com. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback.
on December 13th, 2006 at 12:16 am
I’m trying to scrape a site that has google maps on each page. My app prompts that message all the time. Anyway around it?