Recieving a 403 forbidden error when using latitude and longitude: geocoding

Question

Our site has the option to insert your postcode in, which in turn works with geocoding to work out the latitude and longitude.

This code has not been changed for years but today if the user trys to insert a postcode or update it from yesterday or before the error 'The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.' pops up.

The requests have not shot past 2,500 so I cant see Google blocking us because of that..

Any ideas??

Answer 1

The version 2 Geocoding API was turned off September 9th as announced...

From Upgrading Your Geocoding API Application To v3

Version 2 ("v2") of the Geocoding API was officially deprecated on 8 March 2010 and has now been turned down. As of 9 September 2013 the v2 API will no longer work.