title: how to get pass firewall with google maps api
body: <p>Here's a question for the creators of google maps:</p>
  
  <p>I heard that google maps api is being blocked by most secured network and given that there are many servers that hosts google maps, unblocking all of these would be difficult but not impossible.</p>
  
  <p>So question lies is, how often does these map database server change? We would need to unblock them everytime they do which some people claim to be 6 months or so.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a more stable solution to get past this?</p>
  
  <p>Currently my website is only available for users are who registered members and we are about to add in the firewall for security. We understand that google maps will be affected by this change so we would like to know the solution before we implement it.</p>
  
  <p>Also, if there is no solution to the problem with the current google maps API, does signing up for google map api for businesses help to overcome this? and how?</p>