My website currently uses the Google static map API to display a small image of our customer's location. The website is publicly accessible however is also secure (it has a login section that takes a password). To avoid the browser's mixed content warning (since the google map URL is not secure) I created an .htaccess file on our server which translates a secure URL to google:
RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*) http://maps.google.com/staticmap$1 [QSA] This worked for a bit however is no longer working. I've searched for hours for a solution and the only thing I found was the option to purchase an enterprise license. Well that's ridiculous... I cannot justify spending $10,000 so I can display a small secure static map for 200 of our clients (and our page views would not even come close to what that $10K includes). My question, does anyone know of any alternatives to Google Maps that allow a secure static map (i.e. Yahoo!, Bing, etc,) for something less than $10,000? Or does anyone have any suggestions on how to use the free Google API to achieve this? Caching and saving the map on our sever is not an option as this volatiles Google's terms. Thanks for any help! -- 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=.
