As you say, keys are tied to domain names - so a change of server IP does not force a key change.
However, keys are also tied to the originator's Google account. If that person was very naughty, all their keys might be disabled. Therefore, it makes sense to not continue using keys connected to other people even if they are functional on your domain, and instead get keys under your own control. I guess I'm saying throw the lot away, get new keys for your live domain and your dev site using your own account. You might also choose to keep the 'localhost' feature and get a key for that, but maybe you won't ever use it and can just discard it. So far as I know the same Google key works in any Google service (maps, UDS, etc), so you only need one per domain. cheers, Ross K On Jun 17, 8:43 am, Andrew Crystal <[email protected]> wrote: > Totally gmap api newbie warning! lol > > We had a site developed last year that uses google maps but are going > to move it away from the current developer. We have been warned that > as part of this we may need to get a new gmap api key - I have read a > little on this and I dont think we will as they are tied to a domain > name and not to a server IP address but I would also like to setup a > test site for any future developments that will have a different > address like gbwildlifetestsite.co.uk or something like that. I have > started getting things together and looked at the api keys last night > and registered a new one - all good. > > The problem came when I looked at the web.config file and found that > there were 6 different ones in there - which one do I replace or have > I registered a new one wrong and should I have used a different > method?? > > The site is currently > athttp://www.gbwildlife.co.uk/Results.aspx?place=halifax&radius=50&lati... > > And my current api keys in the web.config file are structured like > this so I seem to have 5 different values listed..........????? > > (I havent included the actual keys as I am not sure whether these > should be publicly displayed or kept private?) > > <!-- Local --> > > <add key="googleSRC" value="http://maps.google.com/maps? > file=api&v=2&key= Value1 > <add key="googleSRC_UDS" value="http://www.google.com/uds/api? > file=uds.js&v=1.0&key= Value2 > > 2 different keys > > <!-- Dev > > <add key="googleSRC" value="http://maps.google.com/maps? > file=api&v=2&key= Value3 > <add key="googleSRC_UDS" value="http://www.google.com/uds/api? > file=uds.js&v=1.0&key= Value3 > > 2 Key thats are the same > > --> > > <!-- Live > > <add key="googleSRC" value="http://maps.google.com/maps? > file=api&v=2&key= Value4 > <add key="googleSRC_UDS" value="http://www.google.com/uds/api? > file=uds.js&v=1.0&key= Value5 > > 2 different keys > > --> > > Any help on this would be greatly appreciated :-) > > Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
