Comment 30 for bug 624981

The editlocation page is loading the Maps API from this URL:

https://maps-api-ssl.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=gme-canonical&file=api&v=2&key=ABQIAAAACeZ5XCmHJlEwBYdSuT5n8xSpSJz2e5W2U1FEKkpRR5DvAoRnExQHcQr64ybfyPfb3_vaIFpvET1ZJg

Notice the client=gme-canonical parameter. The parameter specifies a Maps API Premier client name. The client "gme-canonical" expired almost a year ago so it's basically luck that this worked at all since then. There are three possible ways to solve this:
1. Canonical could renew their account.
2. Someone could update the launchpad javascript code to use the new v3 API which doesn't require a key.
3. The client= parameter could be removed and the free API used instead. (Possibly the simplest fix.)
Note that SSL is unavailable for (2) and (3), which may be a problem.

Besides this, there are a couple of other issues which could cause problems in the future:
1. The key= parameter is for the free API key. Either the key= or client= parameter should be specified but not both.
2. The sensor parameter is required. It seems that launchpad doesn't use GPS locations of its users so sensor=false would be appropriate.