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

[Maik Qualmann]

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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