Question

A while back, my android map app stopped getting Google Satellite tiles. Now that it’s moved up to being the most important issue, I’ve traced the code and found that it creates requests like this one:

http://khm3.google.com/kh/v=65&x=30147&y=19664&z=15&s=

Following the link showed it was broken. The guy who wrote the code was the only one to work on the app before me, left before I was employed, and documented nothing. I have no idea what this link is supposed to do, as I can’t find it in the Google Map Api, even the deprecated versions. Does anyone have any idea what this link used to connect to, why it no longer works, and how to go about fixing it?

Answer 1

I’ve discovered the answer on my own. The v parameter is, I guess, a version number or something. I increased it to 90 and it worked again. I still can’t find documentation on this thing, though, so I’m concerned that the app will have to be manually updated and recompiled whenever that number changes.