[mapguide-users] MGOS 3.0 and Google Maps Layer Issue Not Loading

[Lisa Weber]

I've been doing some exploring associated with getting the google maps layer
working and believe I may have discovered the issue. Last year, Google
changed its Google Maps Premier API requirements. Previously, you either had
no client key if you were below a certain number of daily map loads, and you
had to purchase a client ID if you were over that limit.

 

What Google now requires is that if you are below a certain number of daily
map loads, you are not a Premier API user and you have to use an API key
instead of a client ID but the service is free. No google maps layer will
load without the API key. If you qualify as a Premier user, then you still
pay for the license and have a client ID instead of the API key.

 

It appears that MGOS only accepts a client ID, so unless you are on a paid
Google subscription, there is no way to use the google maps layer anymore,
as the API key is not recognized by google as a valid client key. It throws
the error:

 



 

Am I correct; is it true that MGOS will only accept a client ID? Also, has
anyone successfully used an API key for Google Maps Javascript API with MGOS
2.6? 

 

Kind Regards,

Lisa Weber

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapguide-users/attachments/20160418/2a2a47dc/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image003.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 13798 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapguide-users/attachments/20160418/2a2a47dc/attachment.jpg>