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…
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“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 http://www.google.com/apis/maps/”
How on earth is that threatening? It’s just an honest message. You just have to use a valid key and follow their TOS. They even tell you where you can get a key for your site. This is pretty fair as far as I can see. I think it’s wrong that you are trying to use a key that you do not own and as such Google has rightly blocked you from doing so.
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?