*Wow! What a mass of confusion!!!* I had to search around for over an hour through lots of conflicting information to arrive at this thread that (I'm guessing) has the latest and most correct version of the information.
I'm sure there are a lot of folks like myself that dabble with Google Maps and learned how to use the API v3 when it required no key and would be very surprised to hear that this has changed. I do not doubt that people have been abusing the Google Maps service and that accounts are needed to keep track of usage. But you are going to waste hundreds of thousands of hours of others' time and generate a lot of developer frustration if you don't make people immediately aware of this significant change with clear, concise and consistent documentation. I have always been very impressed with how well thought out the GoogleMaps API was, how easy it was to use and how complete the API documentation has been. I know that the key/account issue is really a business issue rather than a developer issue but it needs to be documented with the same care and consistency as everything else. It will probably take 3 or 4 people a single day to comb through the documentation and clean it up. But that effort will save orders of magnitude more time in avoided confusion on the part of others. Please, please, sort this out and include a special update/section/blog post describing precisely how things have changed since V2 so that each developer can figure out what they understood when and how things are different now. You won't regret any effort you put into this. Thanks, Jon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-js-api-v3/-/Z06WlOUxUS4J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
