Ability to pass Google Maps API key about gmaps

[pbugnion]

For anyone else reading this, a very quick hack for entering your API key is to find the nbextensions/jupyter-gmaps directory. On Mac OS X, this is ~/Library/Jupyter/nbextensions/jupyter-gmaps/. Open the file index.js and search for the line that says: GoogleMapsLoader.LIBRARIES = ["visualization"] ;

Add a new line below with:

GoogleMapsLoader.KEY = "your-api-key" ;

You will need to restart open notebooks.

[xoolive]

I don't know whether it is of all a sudden forbidden to get those maps without an API key.

So I confirm that the page properly works if I add at the top of jupyter-gmaps.js the following line:

var GoogleMapsLoader = require('google-maps');
GoogleMapsLoader.LIBRARIES = ["visualization"] ;
GoogleMapsLoader.KEY = '>>>> API KEY <<<<';

Unfortunately, I am not confident enough with the Python/JS working together to suggest a clean interface... 😢

Hoping my workaround may help providing a quick fix!

PS: The API to activate in your Google developer interface is Google Maps JavaScript API.
I followed these instructions.

[pbugnion]

Thanks for helping. I've never come across this. Maybe you get rate-limited if you don't specify an API key, and after a certain number or requests, you get banned.

I'm not sure how to pass information from Python to the JS layer outside of the context of widgets, but will look into this.

[reyale]

https://developers.google.com/maps/pricing-and-plans/standard-plan-2016-update

"We no longer support keyless access"

[pbugnion]

Ah that's very useful, thanks. All map queries now fail unless I set the key first. I'll try and merge PR #63 and do a release asap.

[pbugnion]

Fixed by PR #63