Geographic Coordinate Visitor Group throws error with default configuration

Found in

EPiServer.CMS.UI 9.8.1

Fixed in

EPiServer.CMS.UI 10.6.1

(Or a related package)

Created

Jul 19, 2016

Updated

Feb 27, 2017

Area

CMS UI

State

Closed, Fixed and tested

Description

Google appears to no longer allow API V3 requests without a key (http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.de/2016/06/building-for-scale-updates-to-google.html). The Geographic Coordinates visitor group criterion tries to use V3 without a key by default, which throws a MissingKeyMapError.

When first trying to view the map, text appears describing setting a custom V3 embed URL, but it makes it sound optional: "If you have a custom URL for the Google Maps API, such as for a Google Maps API Premier account, please set googleMapsApiV3Url in siteSettings in your configuration as appropriate." Maybe this just needs to be updated to make setting that value a requirement, if no default key can be provided with Episerver.

Setting the googleMapsApiV3Url to a URL with a key does work. The issue is only with the default set up.

This a completely blank install, no plugins / add ons. Nuget Versions below:

Episerver.CMS: 9.12.0
Episerver.CMS.UI: 9.8.1