[digiKam-users] google maps doesn't like digikam anymore?

[neinei at gmx.net]

Thanks Maik for the fix. It works flawless in DK 5.9 on Manjaro 17.03

-- NeiNei

On 09/25/2018 11:33 PM, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> Replace backend-googlemaps.html under /usr/share/digikam/geoiface/ with this
> appendix. Then Google Maps also works with digiKam-5.9.0 again.
> 
> Maik
> 
> Am Dienstag, 25. September 2018, 12:24:42 CEST schrieben Sie:
>> You may only need to exchange one file so that digiKam-5.9.0 can work with
>> Google Maps again. I'll check it tonight if it works.
>>
>> Maik
>>
>> Am Dienstag, 25. September 2018, 12:03:11 CEST schrieb Daniel Bauer:
>>> On 25.09.18 11:01, Maik Qualmann wrote:
>>>> Google Maps now requires a registration and API key when using the
>>>> service. DigiKam-5.9.0 does not yet contain this API key. There was a
>>>> transition period for older programs that has now expired. DigiKam-6.0.0
>>>> is registered and sends an API key to Google, so it works with this
>>>> version. We use a free account and we will see if the maximum allowed
>>>> map retrieval per day will be sufficient for all digiKam users
>>>> worldwide.
>>>>
>>>> Maik
>>>
>>> thanks for explaining - so I know it's not my system that has gone wild
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Let's see when dk 6 arrives at opensuse repos. (for several personal
>>> reasons I prefer to use those, even if I don't have the latest dk all
>>> the time)
>>>
>>> Let me again express my gratefulness for this fantastic application
>>> which is the most used in my daily work.
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>> Am Di., 25. Sep. 2018 um 10:24 Uhr schrieb Gilles Caulier
>>>>
>>>> <caulier.gilles at gmail.com <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com>>:
>>>>      Hi,
>>>>      
>>>>       From France, using DK 6.0.0 beta, no problem here with Google Maps.
>>>>      
>>>>      Cheer
>>>>      
>>>>      Gilles Caulier
>>>>      
>>>>      2018-09-24 20:41 GMT+02:00 Daniel Bauer <linux at daniel-bauer.com
>>>>      
>>>>      <mailto:linux at daniel-bauer.com>>:
>>>>          Hi :-)
>>>>          
>>>>          Since a few days, when I want to check geolocation of a photo,
>>>>          google says that it doesn't love digikam anymore: "maps cannot
>>>>          be loaded correctly on this site".
>>>>          
>>>>          And then it shows the map perfectly but with a watermark "For
>>>>          development purposes only".
>>>>          
>>>>          There has been no update of my digikam (5.9, suse-rpm) but
>>>>          obviously google has some crisis with digikam, hopefully it does
>>>>          not lead to a divorce :-)
>>>>          
>>>>          What could that mean?
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