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It seems that in between the development of my website and the go-live (now) Google has phased out the Google Maps v2 API. I'm all for progress but to rewrite all my map code seems to be a bit too much for me to handle at this point in time.
Is it sill possible to obtain a Google Maps v2 API key in some hidden corner of the web?
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Click on the “APIs & auth” menu on the left, and from the submenu select APIs. From the list of APIs that appear, scroll down and ensure that Google Maps Android API v2 is set to “On”.
Getting a key itself is free, and Google offers a limited free trial that includes $300 in credit for your first 90 days of use. After your trial, Google will provide $200 of credit per month toward your Maps API usage.
API Keys is currently free of charge. If you are using Cloud Endpoints to manage your API, you might incur charges at high traffic volumes. See the Endpoints pricing and quotas page for more information. 240 API calls per minute.
Get a new Console key from https://code.google.com/apis/console as described in the Version 3 docs at https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/tutorial#api_key. Console keys work with Version 2 and provide the benefits of statistics reporting.
It's against the Terms to use the API without a key, and in fact this won't work on domains which aren't Google's like http://codethink.no-ip.org/mapHacks.html. The webcache version of that page works because it's on a Google domain.
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