Sorry, we have no imagery here - Google Satellite Map

Question

I am using Google Satellite map on an application. It was working fine and suddenly the map images start not showing. Instead of the terrain images, the map is showing the message "Sorry, we have no imagery here".

It is happening on my office IP and other testers' IPs. If I access from another IP or mobile data it works and shown the satellite images. I am not sure if google blocks IPs in case of continuous access on the maps.

Also I am able to see a lot of errors accessing the images

While clicking on the links for loading images, I am getting an error page like below instead of the map tile image.

Any clues on this issue is appreciated

Answer 1

Thank you for all the response and I was able to find and fix the real issue. Adding the details here for reference.

I have contacted Google support with the request details and they were able to figure out the exact problem. The reason is their image servers are blocking the request from this project (hybrid mobile project - Android) since it found out that there are invalid request is also coming from the project. The invalid request is referred to as the requests without proper header information.

Based on that information, I could find out that a caching mechanism in the project was trying to cache the images and that is which sends the invalid requests. Adding proper header to that cache mechanism solved the issue forever.