Listview static Google Maps Limit

[tagger]

Hi everyone,

my problem: In listview of my table I have a map shown. Everythings works so far, map shows correctly. There are 30 entrys shown per page. Now, when I browse through the pages, at page 3 or 4 the map disappears and this https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/images/quota.png image appears.

This https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/#api_key article states that I have reached the 25000 free static maps impressions per day and application. Which cant be...

Also our company has a google maps "client id" from google....would it help me if I would use that id anywhere? If yes how?

Thanks for any help!

 

[lcollong]

I'm experiencing the same problem....

 

[tagger]

BUMP

 

[rob]

hi
I've had a look at this issue this morning.

First of all it seems that Google T&C's allow us to store cached static maps locally for up to 30 days, if the intention is purely for improving site performance. So I've implemented that - once initially requested images are cached in /cache/com_fabrik/staticmaps/ for up to 29 days, at which point they are re-requested from google.

Secondly I've attempted to add support for the business api client id. You can now edit those in Fabrik's main 'Options' area (under the 'Global tab'). I have to say I don't have a Business API account so I've been unable to test the client id and its signature.

I've also added in an option to supply a standard google maps api key - however, I'm unable to get that to work for localhost where I'm testing this, but in theory that should work for live sites.

All these changes have been added to Fabrik 3.0 and 3.1

Oh and whilst I was there I added a 'Visual refresh' option to the static maps which if turned on, updates the 'look' of the map to a more 'modern' appearance