So, I did the following:
I created a separate map.html file that loaded the google map and additional stuff. Then I kept map.html in a given web location. On all the pages where I have to show the map I loaded the map.html within that html.

Way to load that mapfile within another html:

Since this location fixed, key is also fixed.

Thanks!!

I tried to locate the orginal code where I developed this solution, but I have been unable to find it. After I developed this, we ended up abandoning the map because it didn’t serve the greater purpose of the application we were developing.

Thanks for the offer. I won’t distract you with my code. I’m hoping these posts on your page are useful to others who are also searching of a good way to include their Google map api keys in their web.config file.

As far as I can tell; the approach you have described loads the key at the end of the page (I assume you’ve looked at your page source in your browser and agree). The convention is to load the api key at the head of a page (or at least before the map script). For a simple map with a default Google icon this does not matter, but when you start adding other stuff like your own icons etc loading the key at the end of the page confounds a lot of code.

The solution for me will be a method that loads the key at the start of the page or near to it. In other words the key has to load before the script that loads the map is run and not after it, as in this example. If I take the current javascript that loads my api key and move it to a point after the map script I get the same result as using this approach.

Thanks again for presenting this, I’ve not seen this anywhere else on the web. And if I had a better understanding of .net code I expect I’d figure out the answer, however at this point every trick I’ve tried (with the key in my web.config file) loads the api key after my map. The only solution I have right now is to load the key using javascript before the map script runs (and I keep all my keys in the page and comment out the ones that are not being used).

Thanks again,

Any suggestions you have are most welcome.

Mike.

By the way, I removed the link to the Vacation Rental site you submitted as your URL. It looked suspiciously like a tricky attempt to sneak links to your online business onto my site. A word of advice, don’t do that…it pollutes your credibility.

But………….

with my code this loads the API key at the end of the page. Too late to do everything it needs to do. If I load the key through the Javascript at the head of the page, it loads early enough to do its job. I can get a map with this approach but I can’t do all the trick stuff I normally accomplish as the key loads at the end of the page.

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