I have been using Google Map v3 since a long time. Few weeks ago, one of my client reported that they are not able to see the cluster image(the default one) on Google map.
I found that the Cluster image is broken. Using Fiddler I got the URL of the image and pasted it in browser. I got 404 Error.
Is anyone is aware about if anything is wrong on Google Map API? Does they have discontinued this feature?
Even on the Demo example of Google Map Cluster, the image is not coming up:
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Any help is appreciated!
First of all, the MarkerClusterer library is not part of Google Maps API, it's a third party library called google maps utility library. Anyway this library was moved recently. Somebody probably referenced the cluster image straight from code.google.com/svn/... in your project, where it's not available anymore and that's why it's broken.
Check this SO question, user had very similar issues to yours.
Also! check this question and answers on SO!!, there are users who experienced issues with the same library, to get more information. Read all answers, as replacing https://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn with https://rawgit.com/googlemaps/... is not a correct solution, you should download the library assets (in your case the image) into your project and reference them from there or use CDN (but not git!).
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I am trying to fault find a Google assistant project that has stopped working suddenly. I am not an expert here in fact this is my first time looking at it but it's a needs must! I have also inherited this entire project with little to no documentation (this includes the AWS backend) - so fun! Anyway the first thing I want to do is find exactly which API end points are being used when various phrases are used. For example 'Turn On My Lamp' I am assuming at some point will call one of the (many many) end points on the AWS hosted API. I'm struggling with trying to find what API endpoints Google is using so I can check they resolve correctly. I found the fulfilment URL and that has taken me into the firbase console but from here I cannot find anything. How can I find which endpoints are being called?
I am working on a web app that includes a map using the Google Maps Javascript API. It works on our development server, but whenever trying to access it on stage or production using our company domain, I get an RefererDeniedMapError.
The docs at https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/error-messages#referer-denied-map-error clearly state that this error means Google has blocked our domain for violating ToS. An appeal was submitted but Google claims the domain is not blocked and to see further help here. I've already turned off all API restrictions and removed all referrer restrictions as well, but are still getting the same problems.
I can access the app by going directly to the web app server, but anytime I go through our company's domain name, the error returns, which leads me to believe that we are in fact blocked.
Has anyone experienced an issue like this or know of a workaround for this? I've looked through the related posts on the topic but have not found anything useful info to help resolve the problem.
Edit:
The website is using sensors to track packages in the mail for our customers and alerts them if the sensor gets too much light, is dropped, etc. There are no restriction methods at all. I've added a couple screenshots showing the maps working on development but not during testing.
Map working in development
Map not working on test server
At first look, it just seems to be a normal restriction error, however, since you've said that there are currently no restrictions applied in your API key and is working properly in server-side but not in production, this seems to be an issue with your API key, can you try to generate a new API key and use it in your website? If the issue still persist, then this will require a technical support from Google Maps Platform as this may be an issue in the GCP Console. You may file a support case via https://console.cloud.google.com/google/maps-apis/support in order to open personalized communication channel.
I am new to react-native, and I am going to develop an application by using third-party library called react-native-maps. Currently, everything just working find with online map as this third-party library is used google map. But my problem is went I move to offline mode it would be caused a problem for my application.
My question is there any possible way to make google maps downloaded/cached when the application is load with the specific bound area of a country?
Thank you in advance.
As far as I am aware there is not a way to use the react-native provided MapView to cache the map data. At this time the only offline react-native module that supports offline mapping is react-native-mapbox-gl. I have used it in one of my projects and it is fairly simple to get up and running. The biggest issue with this project is it is still very pre v1.0 in terms of bugs. For basic cases it gets the job done.
Another project I have found has a lot of great features and has a snapshot function that I think could be used to mimic an offline map. I have not tried this but I am evaluating it at this time. react-native-maps
It would function as such:
The app can set aside a cache of a maximum size.
As the app requests tiles, these are cached to local storage.
There is an interface on the map object that enables you to cache a particular tile in the map at a particular zoom level.
The app periodically scans the cache and deletes items in LRU order until it gets under the maximum cache size.
Let me know if the maintainers would accept a pull request like this and I can work on it.
I have several simple Javascript Google maps on two websites. What is project here - each map or everything ? Or maybe maps on one website are one project ? But they have nothing to do with each other. How many projects should be created and how many credentials ? So far I created one project and so many credentials as maps in it. But these maps are separated, almost all different, only few of them generated by one common php, but even in this case half of them are completely different in the internet.
I don't understand this at all.
Thank you.
Usually you should use one API Project for each "property" which is displaying maps. If you have one website where you tracking popular fishing spots and another website where you provide a directions to a local restaurant those should probably be two different API projects.
Each individual map shouldn't have it's own project.
Thanks. This is going to be a supplementary question. Yesterday I created already second project for maps located on second website (despite they have nothing to do with each other except location on the same domain), created new API keys for those maps and deleted their API keys in the first project, because they are in the second project now.
And maps can't be displayed any more. Google Maps is gray and displays information:
Oops! Something went wrong. This page didn't load Google Maps
correctly. See the JavaScript console for technical details.
The Javascript console says:
"Google Maps API error: DeletedApiProjectMapError
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/error-messages#deleted-api-project-map-error"
js:32:350
The same maps work fine without API key, but don't work with the new API key !
Here is an example:
http://darz-bor.info/mapy/puszcza/
I will keep this file with not working API key 1-2 days to allow you to see it and after that will remove API key.
How to make the new API keys working ?
go to Maps JavaScript API and Active this part.
I was just wondering if someone could shed some light on why I am seeing 403 Forbidden errors for my google maps services.
I had been loading the maps api as such:
<script type="text/javascript" src="//maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?libraries=places&sensor=false"></script>
And then using both the geocoding and autocomplete libraries to turn user searches into co-ordinates to display on a map on my search results.
This was working perfectly (for months) until yesterday, when I started seeing 403 Errors whenever the Autocomplete service was accessed.
I am 100% confident I wasn't reaching the 25k per day limit on queries, and I made no code changes on my side.
I have now added in an API key to my script load, and the problem dissapeared, but I want to be sure this doesn't happen again. Location based search is a main feature on our site, and if it breaks, we lose customers.
Does anyone have any insight as to why this may have happened?
And under what circumstances can it happen again?
This problem just re-emerged even with an API key set - and I think the issue actually lies with caching the google maps javascript.
I have my web server dynamically decide what javascript to combine, minify and cache locally. This is done using RequestReduce.
When the client-side javascript becomes stale (roughly 3 days in my case) - google returns 403 unauthorized.
The API key was just a red herring. I can remove the key and my code still works - as long as the maps js is "fresh".
In my case, the fix was to add maps.googleapis.com to the RequestReduce ignore list:
javascriptUrlsToIgnore="maps.googleapis.com"
For others, just make sure to not cache the maps.googleapis.com javascript for more than a few hours, if at all.
The Google Maps JavaScript API recently advanced a minor version increment to 3.9changelog and the default version advanced from 3.6 to 3.7. I notice that you aren't specifying a version in the URL you use to load the Google Maps JavaScript API library, so you retrieve the default version, 3.7. One important thing about version 3.7 is that it now requires the use of keys for some libraries. Info about which version you should use is available in the Versioning section of the Developer's Guide.
A few others have run into similar problems, but if you are running fine after adding the key, you should be good. If you would like to receive notifications about Google Maps API changes in the future, you may register for notifications.