Thanks for the reply. Wish you could just leave it on... I also wrote to the subgurim person to ask to open source his api...
On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 1:13:46 PM UTC+1, Jon Orwant wrote: > > Sorry, we're not going to redirect to image-charts.com since we can't > vouch for the integrity of that service. As an example, there have been > public QR code services that hijacked bitcoin URLs to steal money. I have > no reason to believe image-charts.com is disreputable, but I won't run > that risk. > > Jon > > On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 8:11:13 AM UTC-4, Jopie Avier wrote: >> >> Glad to see it is turned on again. Since I dont have to source code for >> the en.googlemaps.subgurim.com Google Maps api, I am trying with a url >> rewrite outbound to have the content of the webresource.axd rewritten where >> the google url is changed to www.image-charts.com >> >> Very hard to figure out. Any change Google could redirect the old URL to >> image-charts? >> >> Thanks! >> >> On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 11:44:58 PM UTC+1, Jon Orwant wrote: >>> >>> Google Image Charts <https://developers.google.com/chart/image/> -- not >>> to be confused with Google Charts <https://developers.google.com/chart/> >>> -- is the free service at chart.googleapis.com that creates static >>> charts. >>> >>> Its deprecation was announced back in 2012 >>> <https://developers.googleblog.com/2012/04/changes-to-deprecation-policies-and-api.html>, >>> >>> so in theory nobody should be using it now that it's 2019. >>> >>> Several technical dependencies have made maintaining Google Image Charts >>> unsustainable going forward, so it will be *turned off on March 14, >>> 2019*. >>> >>> There is no effective way to identify or contact users of the service >>> other than this group, so to alert them we will be creating outages: first >>> a short one, and then a longer one. >>> >>> The short outage will be for an hour on *Wednesday, February 13, at >>> approximately 1pm Eastern Standard Time*. >>> The long outage will be for several hours on *Tuesday, March 5, at >>> approximately 10am Eastern Standard Time*. >>> >>> If you are still using Google Image Charts, we recommend: >>> >>> >>> - >>> >>> Switching to Google Charts, an actively developed JavaScript library >>> for interactive charts and can render many common chart types as static >>> PNGs. >>> However, Google Image Charts provides some "charts" that Google Charts >>> does >>> not, such as QR codes, LaTeX equations, and road signs. For those we >>> have >>> no suggested replacement. >>> - >>> >>> Using another charting library such as D3 <http://d3js.org> or >>> Dygraphs <http://dygraphs.com/> (both JavaScript). >>> - >>> >>> Generating all the charts you'll ever need before March 14 and >>> storing them yourself. (Many users of Google Image Charts create the >>> same >>> exact chart over and over, which is slower and more wasteful than >>> generating the chart once and storing it locally.) >>> >>> >>> On a personal note, I've enjoyed maintaining the service over the years, >>> and I'm happy to have watched the much more powerful Google Charts leapfrog >>> it in capability. >>> >>> Jon >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Chart API" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-chart-api. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
