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GeoKit gem version: 1.11.0

Payload: "3880 S El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA 94402, USA"

Api call: Geokit::Geocoders::MultiGeocoder.geocode(payload)

Response 1: "Provider: Google, Street: 3880 S El Camino Real.., Success: true"

Response 2: "An error has occurred during geocoding: Keyless access to Google Maps Platform is deprecated. Please use an API key with all your API calls to avoid service interruption. For further details please refer to http://g.co/dev/maps-no-account"

Doubt: If the google API has been changed as per response 2 to accept only api calls with key, then every api call(mentioned above) should give response 2. What is the actual expected behavior here?

Please clarify. Thanks.

Lakshmi narayan
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  • Could you please clarify: When do you get response 1 and when do you get response 2. – mbuechmann Sep 04 '18 at 12:28
  • @mbuechmann The response is random i.e. same address would sometimes give response 1 and sometimes give response 2. For example, I have a debug point before the api call, Now, I make the API call from interactive console with different variations of the same input OR the same input every time. The response is random between 1 and 2 – Lakshmi narayan Sep 04 '18 at 12:44

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That the responses are random is a bit strange, but not that important.

First of all, as a general advice, I would update the geokit gem, as the version you are using is older than one year.

If you follow the link, you can read, that it should not be possible to make these api key without an API key. To get an API key, you need a free billing account. When this is setup you can get an API key, which has 200 USD worth of free API requests per month (which is quite a lot).

When you have the key, you can configure it by setting Geokit::Geocoders::GoogleGeocoder.api_key.

mbuechmann
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