Update to Google Maps API Suddenly Exceeding Quota

Follow these links:

The Google Geocoding API

Geocoding Strategies

The key (no pun intended) here is whether you will use a browser key or a server key. Since my PHP script is using file-get-contents($requestURL), where $requestURL might look like this

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=

I will create and copy the server key from the

https://console.developers.google.com/project

Now I am still trying to figure out where to place this code in the PHP/HTML/Javasript page. You'd think that

      src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=API_KEY">
    

would work. But not necessarily so. Stay tuned.