On July 16, Google Maps is going to make it more difficult and expensive to use its API, which could make custom maps that rely on the service less sustainable or even unfeasible for the people who made them.
But it doesn’t appear to be likely to have much of an impact on state and local government.
There are two big changes, which will apply to any project that makes calls to the various Google Maps APIs. First, Google Maps is requiring all projects to have an official API key in order to work. ...continued ...