places_autocomplete.html example => example "google is not defined"

[fearless_fool]

I want to build upon the example code found in:

    http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/places-autocomplete.html

It works fine from the above URL, but when I copy the source code and past it into a local file, opening the local file results in a javascript console error:

    "Uncaught ReferenceError: google is not defined"

... and the input form doesn't autocomplete, etc.  Sure enough, when I look at the source, I see references to 'google' but no definition. What am I missing?

[geoco...@gmail.com]

On Jan 29, 2:20 pm, fearless_fool <rdp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to build upon the example code found in:
>

> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/pl...

>
> It works fine from the above URL, but when I copy the source code and past
> it into a local file, opening the local file results in a javascript
> console error:
>
>     "Uncaught ReferenceError: google is not defined"
>
> ... and the input form doesn't autocomplete, etc.  Sure enough, when I look
> at the source, I see references to 'google' but no definition. What am I
> missing?

A valid reference to the API.

This (from that example):
//maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false&libraries=places

won't work. See the documentation:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/tutorial.html#Loading_the_Maps_API

-- Larry

[Chris Broadfoot]

To add to what Larry said, the "//" is known as a "protocol relative URL". This won't work on file://, unfortunately.

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[Robert Poor]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 17:17, Chris Broadfoot <cb...@google.com> wrote:
> To add to what Larry said, the "//" is known as a "protocol relative URL".
> This won't work on file://, unfortunately.

That was it. (After Larry's comment, I thought it was the lack of the
API_KEY, but it was actually the lack of the http: prefix.)

Thanks, all!