Re: Started 2/12/2013: "Google has disabled use of the Maps API for this application."??

[Chris Broadfoot (Google Employee)]

Hi Freeman,

Today we experienced a temporary outage on a number of sites using the
Google Maps JavaScript API. Services have now been fully restored.

Regards,
Chris

On Feb 13, 10:42 am, Freeman White <free...@launcht.com> wrote:
> We started getting an error on our maps integration with our app today and
> can't tell how to remedy the supposed violation implied in the error
> message:
> "Google has disabled use of the Maps API for this application. See the
> Terms of Service for more information:http://www.google.com/help/terms_maps.html."
>
> Others started getting this for the first time today as you can see on this
> other forum thread:http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/maps/issues-an...
>
> Any guidance about why this started today and what steps we can take to
> determine what our supposed violation is?

[Andrew Leach]

On 13 February 2013 04:43, gth <gre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there anything we can add to our map pages to confirm that the Maps API
> service itself is fully operational, so we can degrade gracefully? I'd
> prefer not to show an ugly popup message that something is wrong with my
> key...

The closest I've seen is something I wrote as long as seven years ago.
It's not entirely complete, and won't help with the API being
delivered but the key-check failing, but it may be helpful as a start.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/Google-Maps-API/XTapa_dK-SQ