Title: Google Maps API server rejected your request. 'sensor' parameter
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Google Maps API server rejected your request. 'sensor' parameter

 *  Resolved [ZeroGravity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zerogravity/)
 * (@zerogravity)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request-sensor-parameter/)
 * _I mistaken added this question to a previous post instead of creating a new 
   thread for the question. Started this one to correct that error and help people
   find the solution if they have the same issue._
 * I haven’t had the time to look into this further yet but I added a venue map 
   to single-event.php.
    echo do_shortcode(‘[eo_venue_map height=”300px”]’); I am
   getting this error. _The Google Maps API server rejected your request. The ‘sensor’
   parameter specified in the request must be set to either ‘true’ of ‘false’._
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 *  Thread Starter [ZeroGravity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zerogravity/)
 * (@zerogravity)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request-sensor-parameter/#post-4540043)
 * Setphen’s reply (in the other thread):
 * > R.e. the venue map error, you probably have some sort of security plug-in installed
   > which is stripping off any query variables from script urls. The (incorrect,
   > in my opinion) idea is that disguising the WordPress version improves security.
   > Unfortunately Google requires the ‘sensor’ query variable to present and set
   > to true or false.
 *  Thread Starter [ZeroGravity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zerogravity/)
 * (@zerogravity)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request-sensor-parameter/#post-4540046)
 * I had added code to strip off the query variables not so much as to disguise 
   the WordPress version but at the suggestion of Pingdom tools site analysis – 
   performance grade: _“Remove query strings from static resources”_.
 * I have added exceptions for googleapis on other sites but forgot to do it on 
   this one. The exception is added and everything works now.
 * Thanks Stephen!

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