Get Google Elevations Key


Tutorial for a Google Elevations key for use with IMPORTGMPTS

  1. By using the program, you must select the data source as the Google Maps.
    By doing this, there is the Access Key is blank.
    If it gets, click (the browser will open https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/elevation/get-api-key):
  2. Click the GET A KEY:
  3. Should open another screen. In it, choose Create a project and click the Create button::
  4. You may need to log in to Google. If it is, do it.
  5. Wait for the API is enabled and enter a name, you can accept the default, or choose any other name, and then click the Create:
  6. Ready, opens a screen showing a sequence of letters. It is your key:
  7. If you click the OK button, the key appears in the list:
  8. Copy and paste the key in the Access Key do IMPORTGMPTS:

In this tutorial, after inserting the key in the appropriate field, it is saved in the file TBN2CAD.ini. Make sure that it is as reading and writing, but will not save and you will have to fill this field every time you use the program.

Note that the Bing Maps also requires a passkey and it is different this we created in Google Maps. Then follow the tutorial for this key.

Also note that when switching between Google Maps and Bing Maps, the Access Key will be filled with the key saved in the file TBN2CAD.ini correspondent. So do not mix.

If you lose this key, redo the tutorial above.