bookmaps | Bookmark locations on Google Street View/Maps

You can still use the extension without an API key. However, you won't be able to bookmark things yourself. You will need to import bookmarks from other people or ones that you've exported yourself. This is the only limitation if you don't have a valid API key set. More about exporting is explained in the Exporting section below. This API is what allows the extension to separate bookmarks based on their geographic details, which is what it provides given the latitude and longitude as parameters. A free account gives you a quota of 2500 calls per day (as of 10/29/2022), which should be more than enough for the average user. Every time a bookmark gets added directly through Google Maps/Street View or from their URLs/coordinates in the extension page, a call is made to the API. Calls are made in the get_bookmark function in the dist/scripts/background/main.js file. Importing bookmarks from JSON data in the format that the extension exports (more at the Exporting section) does not make calls to the API, as the bookmarks are already set up, thus not needing an API key setup if that's all you need. You can sign up for a free account at https://opencagedata.com. After creating your account, your API key may now be available at https://opencagedata.com/dashboard#geocoding. If it isn't, in the Geocoding API tab, click the Create another API key button to generate an API key for you. Now that you have your API key, you need to update it in the extension page. Click the extension icon in the browser, then after the page loads up, open the settings (click the cog icon in the top-right corner). Then, all you have to do is paste the API key in the textbox and click the Update button. If your key is not valid (i.e. wrong key, blacklisted, api server is unreachable), you will be warned and the extension won't update it.