title: Making the switch to maps.googleapis.com
body: <p>so there was a blog post a few days back about switching to maps.googleapis.com from maps.google.com you can read about here. </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/grab-bag-of-maps-api-news.html" rel="nofollow">http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/grab-bag-of-maps-api-news.html</a></p>
  
  <p>As a consumer  of Google maps API how does it affect me and what changes do I need to make. I know I just import one script file as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?v=3.5&amp;sensor=true" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
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  <p>is it as trivial as changing the above one to </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.5&amp;sensor=true" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
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  <p>Even when I used maps.google.com my tiles were retrieved from maps.googleapis.com so I am not sure how this change will benefit me. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>