I've been asked to Show a Google Map in a report and, looking at their API, I think this should be quite easy. I've added an image, set it's source to external and set it's URL as follows:-
="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?centre=London&zoom=14&size=200x200&key=MyKeyIsHere".
(I plan to replace that London with a postcode once I've got things working - just trying to keep things simple for now)
The thing is, all I get on the page is a big blue square:-
As far as I'm aware London is not underwater (I know our economy is supposed to sink post Brexit but I wasn't expecting the whole damn city to go under) so what gives? I've tried a variety of different locations but I'm getting the same result every time. The API isn't returning any error (and I can force it to error by passing a mangled call or an invalid key so I know it show when there is one.) Any suggestions?
I should say, this is using BIDS 2008 R2.


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