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Google Maps Lockdown

Posted in Google, Google Maps by Elliott Back on October 5th, 2005.

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:

Google API key not registered

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…

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