Arghhh!!! We have an iPhone app which uses the HTTP geocoder to
display data on the iPhone-provided google maps. There is no "key"
that matches the domain as theses are plain HTTP requests from an
iPhone without any referrer and/or domain. The iPhone is simply doing
an address lookup to get lat/long to then display the dot on its own
google-driven build-in map. There is no domain involved here...
This of course completely "broke" our app as it's now unable to do
lookups. It takes *several* weeks for Apple to approve new app
upgrades, so we are now in *deep* trouble, as even though we submitted
a new version today with a workaround, it will not be available on
iPhones for weeks. Our app is not the only one with the problem, we
have seen a few others failing as well.

Is there any chance this requirement will be rethought? Or at least
exclude iPhone/iTouch devices from this via their browser agent?

Help...!!!

Roberto F.



On Oct 18, 4:52 pm, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hey Sterling -
>
> The recommended technique there is the GClientGeocoder(), so if they use
> that, the geocodes will be counted against the User IP, and they will not go
> over the limit. We don't do any per-key limits anymore.
> - pamela
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:48 AM, String <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Any chance of whitelisting the Google gadget server domains
> > *.modules.com and *.googleusercontent.com? Given that the GMaps
> > geocoder is the recommended technique for gadgets (see
> >http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/fundamentals.html#location),
> > there's a strong likelihood that gadgets will run over the gecoder
> > limits.
>
> > Thanks! I'm happy to post this as a feature request if that would be
> > more appropriate, just let me know.
>
> > String
>
> > On Oct 18, 1:10 pm, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Update: We have gone forward with this change. If you are doing HTTP
> > > geocoding and receiving errors suddenly, you should check on the
> > > validity and existence of the key parameter that you send in. It
> > > should match the referrer.
>
> > > On Aug 30, 8:12 am, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > I am using HTTP request from the server side of a Java GAE
> > > > application.  What is the proper key to use?  http://appspot.cometc.
> > > > do not work...
>
> > > > Thanks,
>
> > > > Mike
>
> > > > On Jul 30, 12:54 am, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[email protected]>
> > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > Note: If you are only using GClientGeocoder or ClientGeocoder from
> > the
> > > > > JS/Flash APIs, then this message is not relevant to you. This message
> > > > > applies only to users of the HTTP Geocoder documented here:
> >http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/
>
> > > > > Our system currently permits HTTP Geocoder requests without referers
> > to not
> > > > > provide a valid key. In the next few weeks, we will be making a
> > change that
> > > > > enforces that a
> > > > > valid key must be provided along with an HTTP Geocoder request.
> > Please
> > > > > ensure that your HTTP Geocoding requests pass a valid key.
>
> > > > > Please post in the forums if you have questions about this change.

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