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.

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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.

Answer 2

Copy of my answer to: this duplicate question

Api v2 was closed down on sept 13, 2013. Your question was asked on 14th - so that migh be a clue. What I managed to do is simply modify URLs in googlemaps.py

I changed _DIRECTIONS_QUERY_URL (line 165 of googlemaps.py) to:

_DIRECTIONS_QUERY_URL = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/output?'

And it worked fine. Also I tried modiying line 164: _GEOCODE_QUERY_URL = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/output?' as suggested here but there's some error, and a) I don't need it anyway b) it's already covered by pygeocoder which is a bit more advanced that googlemaps.py