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Title: "IMatch could not establish connection with geocoding service at Google Maps"
Post by: stahl on May 20, 2023, 10:05:16 PM
"The server may be unavailable or too busy. Please try again later."
I've been getting this error message for a month now. On the Google pages of the API, there is no notice of any problem like with my account, but I can see an error in their log file at the time I tried to reverse geocode.

Does anybody have this problem, too? Any ideas?
Title: Re: "IMatch could not establish connection with geocoding service at Google Maps"
Post by: Mario on May 20, 2023, 10:07:24 PM
You can see which error in the log file?
IMatch should display the response from Google Maps in both the Output Panel (https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/panel_output.htm) and in the log file (https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/#im_logfile.htm).
It would be helpful to know which error message Google returns.
Title: Re: "IMatch could not establish connection with geocoding service at Google Maps"
Post by: stahl on May 21, 2023, 05:59:57 PM
That was the right tip: There was a link in the log file directing me to a Google page: It turns out Google deactivated the (never used) billing account that is needed to run the geocoding service, because my credit card expired in April ...
It's working again now. Thanks!