Several Google API manuals should be fixed to provide clear
instructions for developers of applications for older (and now
deprecated) libraries:
1 - It took me two hours to figure out what a missing sensor
might be, and how I can fix it when I use google.looad( )
instead of a <script>. It's only one critical line:
google.load( "maps", "3", { other_params: "sensor=false" });
Affected manuals: Loader + Maps v3
2 - Migration from v2 to v3
The v2 and v3 manuals should offer a link for developers
interested in porting their stuff in the first ten lines of the
main manual page.
In a nutshell the info should say "not possible by simply
replacing 2 + API-key by 3 + sensor=false everywhere."
Affected manuals: v2 and v3
3 - I use static maps as background images for maps v2
instead of a "loading" spinning wheel. For the static maps
it turned out that replacing the key by sensor=false is
almost all that I had to change. Apparently the static map
v1 type "mobile" does not more exist in v2, that should be
noted in the otherwise short and sweet static map manual.
3 - local search
Integrating local search in an iGoogle gadget using maps
requires some now deprecated local search JS scripts.
I never found out (in 2008) how to use the closely related
"Googlebar" for this purpose, and the local search manual
only offers a "deprecated" link with info about "custom
search". But custom search is unrelated to local search
and clearly not what I need.
Affected manual: local search (and maybe v2 googlebar)
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