POIedit Google map error

crazyhazy · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:29 pm Post subject: POIedit Google map error

When I open a ov2 file with poiedit the list of individual poi is displayed as normal, when i click on an individual location I get an error message saying Google has disabled use of the maps API for this application......
Whats hapened to it? Confused

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Andy_P · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:28 pm Post subject:

Google have started charging for use of their API.

There's a bit of chat about it in a previous topic:
Google API charging

Looks like the man behind POIEdit doesn't want to pay for it. Crying or Very sad

He's quite hard to get hold of too, there's no contact details on the website and the main site was last updated over 2 years ago.

But if you want to ask what's going on, I have spoken to him before on mrdnote@gmail.com
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crazyhazy · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:44 pm Post subject:

I did a search but couldnt find anything, can you recommend anything else?
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GPS v1.21, Boot 5.5011
United Kingdom and Replublic of Ireland v885.4058

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:01 pm Post subject:

Depends what you want to do....

Tyre (http://www.janboersma.nl/gett/index.php) is very good for creating routes and can also show POI on a Google map.

I've never QUITE got the hang of it though, and AFAIK it can't do some of the things I use POIEdit for, such as merging several POI files together.
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Andy_P · Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:23 am Post subject:

I've just remembered there *is* a way round it in POIEdit (but I don't know for how long its going to work...)

I'd completely forgotten that I'd been involved in a discussion on another forum, where a French user worked out how to modify one of the files to fool the Google API. Another US member then provided a link to the modified file.

To cut a long story short, the modified file is at GoogleMaps_V3KeyEdit.zip

You need to unzip the file and rename it to GoogleMaps.dll and use it to replace the existing one at
C:\Program Files\Dnote Software\PoiEdit2007\plugins\htmlembed\GoogleMaps. dll

As I say, the loophole may be plugged any time.
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crazyhazy · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:52 am Post subject:

Thanks for the link, sorry for the late reply. Bloody Google Mad

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GPS v1.21, Boot 5.5011
United Kingdom and Replublic of Ireland v885.4058

PaulWH · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:10 am Post subject:

Many thanks for this update, POIEdit now working again.

Paul

MrGrumpy48 · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:37 am Post subject: POIEdit/Google

Marvelous, at least until Google catches up. Even works on the other side of the world … and in the dark !! YouDaMan Andy P.

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