New Feature request: event with google maps section / goolge-maps-API issue

UPDATE:
This request originated of my yesterday problems displaying the
google-maps-snippet on TEC-events with the standard google-API-key
in general.
As I see now, this problem isn’t existing anymore on the related
new website.
(may be a delayed problem with too harsh firewall-setting which
I’ve changed yesterday)

Remaining question is: Would it be an improvement to have the
choice of using an “API-key-free” maps-snippet for events?

Jens

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Hello to all of you “The Events Calendar”-developers! ??

First Thanks for sharing your famous calendar-plugin for free
in a very usable version!
??

For us, as coping only with charitable organizations it’s generally
always difficult to get money for our web-projects.

Many of our coworkers are only paid a little compensation of their
travel expenses getting to the office.
Their work in general is mostly voluntarily — and thus unpaid!

Additionally expenses for “non-hardware” are nearly impossible
to budget, if there are any way to get a “free” alternative.

So I want to say Thank You again for the possibility of using your
free plugin version and supporting charitable groups and
organizations – may be in a way you’re normally not aware of? ;(

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My proposal is related to the map section of your events:

As I had to realize google had changed their supply of API-keys
generally.
Getting them has (especially for non English users) becoming
rather confusing, as they obviously try to monetize each and every
use of their maps-snippets on every website, I think.

Additional their related pages are not translated for foreign users,
so it looks intransparent — or better said inscrutable — how much
you will have to pay for using their API-keys on your website.

Thus — for our projects — using new API-keys from google
has become a NO GO !
:-((

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So I looked for a formerly used alternative, where we used
google-maps-snippets without using any API-key.

It looks as if they’e still working:
https://maps-generator.com/

I’m aware that this way you only will have the isolated Map-snippet
on your website, only showing the exact location of your highlighted
place.

But this will work for most posts, I think. It’s a far better look
as if you have to disable the map-snippet generally — because of
lacking an API-key for your actual project.

My final question:
Would it be possible to implement this “alternative google maps”-
snippets in your “The Events Calendar”-plugin?
(as a new and second choice, I would suggest)

Kind Regards
& best wishes continuing with your awesome work ??

Jens
from Freistatt, Lower Saxony, Germany

[email protected]

• This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Jens.

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