Maps for Business: Generating Valid Signatures
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it as the tutorial for generating valid signed Maps for Business requests, whether they are following it, adapting it to SHA-256, or asking about its terminology.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2012 to 2015.
What it is
A 2012 Google for Developers walkthrough showing how to sign requests to Google Maps for Business web services such as the Geocoding API. It covers finding the client ID and signing key, then builds an HMAC-SHA1 digital signature step by step in Python.
What people said
Recommends kaskader · 2012-10 · Stack Overflow · on “Google Maps API for Business - Geocoding requests per second limit?”
I am not sure if you are talking about client side Javascript geocoding quota or the server side web service quota. The client side Javascript does have a quota, but it is a client quota for every user. You get a bunch of requests to start with and then you get a refill every couple of seconds. The server side Maps for Business license gets you 10 QPS. The day limits are documented here: [LINK] You can buy extra QPS by contacting the person you have bought the business license from. Check out this article: [LINK] that talks though use cases for client and sever side geocoding if you are still not sure. If you stick to server side make sure you are using the Geocoding API v3 tho, because v2 i
Recommends brettjj · 2015-07 · Stack Overflow · on “Google Map API Signature Validation using SHA-256”
I ran through this tutorial: [this video] replacing only the client ID with my own and Sha1 with Sha256. The last f.read() call gave me this error - "Unable to authenticate the request. Provided 'signature' is not valid for the provided client ID, or the provided 'client' is not valid.\nThe signature was checked against the URL: /maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=40.7%2C-73.96&client=gme-'editedout'&sensor=true\nIf this does not match the URL you requested, please ensure that your request is URL encoded correctly. Where 'editedout' was my ID.
Cites ug_ · 2013-07 · Stack Overflow · on “Google geocoding API setup finding the correct ClientID and Secret”
I am building a java web application that requires googles geocoding service as defined on [LINK] . My application is all setup and everything works, I am now attempting to sign my requests to allow for additional features from the API such as additional rate limits billing ect... The problem I am having is I cant seem to get a proper Client Id and Key that works with the geocoding API. I used just about every sensible combination of id and key from the API Access tab on Google's API console. To test my credentials and I have copied the PHP code directly from google at [LINK] to ensure my requests are signed correctly. I watched a google developers video about this topic ( [this video] ) and it s
Cites thadeuszlay · 2014-10 · Stack Overflow · on “Is "Crypto Key" and "privateKey" the same in Google Maps API V3?”
In the whole video she used a "privateKey": [this video] While she mentioned "Crypto Key", the "Crypto Key" is never used though. I wonder whether it is just a minor mistake, i.e. she meant "Crypto Key" when she talked about "privateKey", or whether there is a "privateKey". If this is the case, where do I get the "privateKey"? Also @8:59 she said "no low standard characters". Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker, but what does "no low standard characters" mean? It can't be lower case characters, because in her example there were lower case characters too. Google didn't help either in this case.