Comments on: Google Maps API http://xavisys.com/google-maps-api/ Control Your Internet Fri, 16 May 2008 06:56:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Aaron D. Campbell http://xavisys.com/google-maps-api/#comment-1368 Aaron D. Campbell Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:22:15 +0000 http://xavisys.com/google-maps-api/#comment-1368 Pamela: Thanks for your comment. I realize that you have to cater to everyone, including those that have never programmed at all and want maps on their site (and I must admit that I often overlook this group). However, the more I think about it though, the more I think there should be a solution, it's just not as simple as changing from an alert to a global variable. Instead, it's a two step process. First, you need to allow your user to set a global before they include your JavaScript (similar to how you set your Google Analytics key). Depending on the value of the global, you would either send an alert (default), or set another global (or reset the same, so as not to further pollute the global namespace). You could even make a third setting which would do both (set the global AND send the alerts). I'm out today, but I'll try to log a request as soon as I can. Pamela:
Thanks for your comment. I realize that you have to cater to everyone, including those that have never programmed at all and want maps on their site (and I must admit that I often overlook this group). However, the more I think about it though, the more I think there should be a solution, it’s just not as simple as changing from an alert to a global variable. Instead, it’s a two step process. First, you need to allow your user to set a global before they include your JavaScript (similar to how you set your Google Analytics key). Depending on the value of the global, you would either send an alert (default), or set another global (or reset the same, so as not to further pollute the global namespace). You could even make a third setting which would do both (set the global AND send the alerts). I’m out today, but I’ll try to log a request as soon as I can.

]]> By: Pamela Fox http://xavisys.com/google-maps-api/#comment-1367 Pamela Fox Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:52:43 +0000 http://xavisys.com/google-maps-api/#comment-1367 Hi Adam- The reason we can't have a key verification service is that we don't store a list of keys anywhere. The key is merely a hash of your domain and your google account, and the key is checked against window.location.host when the script is loaded into the page. The best thing to do is always register for http://domain.com, as this yields the most flexibility (subdomains, ports, folders, etc). I suppose we could have a global variable, but I think we'd still have to have an alert - many newbie programmers wouldn't think to check the state of the global variable, and would be stuck in a state of confusion over their lack of a map. Regardless, feel free to file feature requests at gmaps-api-issues.googlecode.com. - pamela Hi Adam-

The reason we can’t have a key verification service is that we don’t store a list of keys anywhere. The key is merely a hash of your domain and your google account, and the key is checked against window.location.host when the script is loaded into the page. The best thing to do is always register for http://domain.com, as this yields the most flexibility (subdomains, ports, folders, etc).

I suppose we could have a global variable, but I think we’d still have to have an alert - many newbie programmers wouldn’t think to check the state of the global variable, and would be stuck in a state of confusion over their lack of a map.

Regardless, feel free to file feature requests at gmaps-api-issues.googlecode.com.

- pamela

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