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

[Maik Qualmann]

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?