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Whenever I try to load the Google Hybrid layer on QGIS 1.8.0 and 2.0.1, I get this error:

This page was unable to display a Google Maps element. Please contact the site administrator. If you are the administrator of this site, please check the JavaScript console or check the following page for troubleshooting: http://g.co/mapsJSApiErrors

How do I correct the error so that the map can load?

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I got a key from google and included in each of the GOOGLE html files in the openlayers plugin html directory... and it started working again.

add your key to the line https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY

Also have to take out the v=3.3 (version) in the current html code.

Gene
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I don't know why that's happening, there seems to be a few posts asking about that.

This post "Why are the Google basemaps no longer appearing in QGIS?" has a good solution which allows you to add the Google Tile server as a layer. Uncomment the line for which basemap you want to use and add the file as if it were a Raster layer.

Other suggestions have been to use the QuickMapServices plugin as an alternative.

Other related posts i've seen on SE: Google Maps not Showing in QGIS 2.12

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Andrew Jeffrey
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Apparently Google has changed the Javascript API to require a key and includes a quota for access This began June 22, 2016. https://developers.google.com/maps/pricing-and-plans/standard-plan-2016-update So this has created an issue for the plugin, I think. You can debug the error by opening up the Google html files in ./qgis2/python/plugins/openlayers_plugin/html in your browser and looking in the browser console (in Firefox)

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