Question

I have been having trouble with the Google Maps API for one week now and I’m unable to resolve it 🙁

I have a site that has been using the Google Maps v3 for several weeks now without any issues. But suddenly, it starts complaining that: Google has deactivated the use of the Google Maps API for this application, because the offered key is not a valid Google-API-Key or the use of Google Maps v3 is not allowed for this site.

I double checked everything, including: trying a new key; checking domain restrictions and activation in the API-console – Everything is alright.

I’m using simple authentication. Every help would be highly appreciated 🙂

Answer 1

The Version Handling Has Changed. This Code Is No Longer Valid (see the code below in the update):

One thing you can do immediately to bypass such problems: explicitly set the version of the API you are using to 3.6:

<script type="text/javascript"
    src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.6&sensor=false">
</script>

Keys were introduced in 3.7, so you do not get any warnings if you set your version to: 3.6.

Important Update That Makes the JavaScript Code Above Invalid:

Setting the version to 3.6 will no longer function as a work-around for this, because you are no longer able to request version 3.6. You should not use the code above, but should use the following code to load the Google Maps JavaScript 3.8 library:

<script type="text/javascript"
    src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.8&sensor=false">
</script>

Google recently announced a version update; here is the content of the Google announcement email:

We recently released a new minor version of the Google Maps API. This
means that the versions are now:
3.9: Development/Nightly
3.8: Feature Stable
3.7: Frozen

3.6 has been removed: if you request it you will receive 3.7.

In this latest release of 3.9, we’ve added:
* Country restriction for Autocomplete (AutocompleteOptions?.componentRestrictions)
* Regions and Cities type filters

You will also get all the features of 3.8 (now Feature Stable),
including:

• WeatherLayer and CloudLayer
• Click-to-go/Click-to-zoom in Street View
• orderBy, limit and offset for FusionTablesLayer
• utc_offset and opening_hours in PlaceResult
• google.maps.geometry.poly.containsLocation() and isLocationOnEdge()
• DemographicsLayer (Maps for Business only)