fix(search): geocode through the server, not the browser

- Google's Geocoding web service refuses referrer-restricted keys, so the
  browser call forced GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY to ship unrestricted
- add /api/google/geocode and /api/google/reverse-geocode, using the server
  key like Places and Street View already do
- the browser key now needs the Map Tiles API only

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Changelog
 
+- Move Google geocoding behind the local server. Forward and reverse lookups now
+  go through `/api/google/geocode` and `/api/google/reverse-geocode` with the
+  server key, joining Places and Street View. Google's Geocoding web service
+  refuses referrer-restricted keys, so the previous browser call left
+  `SECURITY.md`'s advice and working search mutually exclusive: the bundled
+  browser key had to be unrestricted for search to work at all. That key now
+  needs the Map Tiles API only. Keyless sessions and the Photon/Nominatim
+  fallback order are unchanged.
+
 - Enable responsive trackpad pinch zoom on the globe. Browser pixel-mode
   `Ctrl+wheel` pinch gestures now reach Cesium with bounded amplification,
   while ordinary wheel, line-mode and touch-pinch inputs retain their existing

SECURITY.md

@@ -20,18 +20,18 @@ The golden rule: **secret-bearing API keys stay on the server side.** The dev/pr
 | `OPENAI_API_KEY` | Server only | Browser fetches a short-lived **ephemeral** Realtime session token from `/api/realtime/token`; the real key never ships |
 | `AISSTREAM_API_KEY` | Server only | Server holds the AISStream websocket; browser polls the same-origin `/api/ais-live` cache |
 | OpenSky OAuth (`OPENSKY_CLIENT_ID/SECRET`) | Server only | Server mints + refreshes the token behind `/api/opensky` |
-| `GOOGLE_MAPS_SERVER_API_KEY` (optional, #33) | Server only | Server calls Places (`/api/google/nearby-places`, `/api/google/text-search`) and the Street View fallback with this key; falls back to `GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY` when unset |
+| `GOOGLE_MAPS_SERVER_API_KEY` (optional, #33) | Server only | Server calls Places (`/api/google/nearby-places`, `/api/google/text-search`), Geocoding (`/api/google/geocode`, `/api/google/reverse-geocode`) and the Street View fallback with this key; falls back to `GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY` when unset |
 
 ### Two deliberately client-side keys — restrict them
 
 These are designed to be used directly in the browser (like a Mapbox public token). They are injected into the client bundle via Vite's `define`, so they **will** be visible in browser devtools. Scope and restrict them rather than trying to hide them:
 
-1. **Google Maps API key** — loads Photorealistic 3D Tiles directly and powers GEV place search. **Restrict it** (HTTP referrer + API restriction to the required Google APIs) in the Google Cloud Console. An unrestricted key in a public deployment can be abused and billed to you.
+1. **Google Maps API key** — loads Photorealistic 3D Tiles directly. **Restrict it** (HTTP referrer + API restriction to the required Google APIs) in the Google Cloud Console. An unrestricted key in a public deployment can be abused and billed to you. Restrict it to the **Map Tiles API only**: a referrer restriction applies to the Maps JavaScript API and the client SDKs, not to the web services, so a key carrying Geocoding under one is refused with `API keys with referer restrictions cannot be used with this API`. Search does not need it — geocoding goes through the server proxies above (#363).
 2. **Cesium ion token** (`CESIUM_ION_TOKEN`, optional — for ion-hosted Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles, Bing world imagery, and world terrain) — used as `Cesium.Ion.defaultAccessToken` client-side. Use a public **`assets:read`** token with **URL restrictions** for any hosted deployment. The Community plan has eligibility and usage limits; a public token is not a secret, but it can still consume the account's quota.
 
 > The explicit browser `define` block in `build/vite.js` controls exactly what reaches the client: only these two keys. Everything else stays server-side.
 
-**Places and Street View never needed to be on that list** (#33): they're called from the server-side proxies in the table above, which use `GOOGLE_MAPS_SERVER_API_KEY` when it's set. Splitting it from the browser-exposed key lets each key's Google Cloud restriction actually match what it does — the browser key referrer-restricted to the APIs the client loads, the server key IP-restricted (never a referrer, since it never leaves your server) to Places + Street View Static — instead of one key that has to be either over-permissioned or broken for one of its two jobs. A single shared `GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY` still works if you don't split them; it just has to cover every API both sides use.
+**Places, Geocoding and Street View never needed to be on that list** (#33, #363): they're called from the server-side proxies in the table above, which use `GOOGLE_MAPS_SERVER_API_KEY` when it's set. Splitting it from the browser-exposed key lets each key's Google Cloud restriction actually match what it does — the browser key referrer-restricted to Map Tiles, the server key IP-restricted (never a referrer, since it never leaves your server) to Places + Geocoding + Street View Static — instead of one key that has to be either over-permissioned or broken for one of its jobs. A single shared `GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY` still works if you don't split them, but then it cannot carry a referrer restriction at all: the web services refuse one, and search would be the half that breaks.
 
 Never commit real keys. `.env` is gitignored; only `.env.example` (placeholder names) is tracked. On macOS `dev-fresh.sh` can read keys from the Keychain; plain Vite uses env vars or a local `.env`, and Pinokio uses its ignored app `ENVIRONMENT` file.
 

docs/CURRENT-STATE.md

@@ -3445,7 +3445,24 @@ Providers normalize coordinates, canonical name, label, place types and optional
 bounds. Camera framing, nearby landmark recovery and footprint selection remain
 in their consumers, including the Capitol identity/containment safeguards.
 Radio keeps localized country names in labels rather than station filters.
-Reverse geocoding and nearby/text-search endpoints retain their existing behavior.
+Nearby/text-search endpoints retain their existing behavior.
+
+**Google geocoding is a server route, not a browser call** (#363). Forward and
+reverse lookups go to `/api/google/geocode` and `/api/google/reverse-geocode`,
+which carry `GOOGLE_MAPS_SERVER_API_KEY` (falling back to `GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY`)
+and share the Places routes' opt-in `GEV_RATELIMIT_GOOGLE_PER_MIN` throttle.
+Google's Geocoding **web service** refuses referrer-restricted keys, so the
+previous browser call forced the bundled browser key — visible in devtools by
+design — to be left unrestricted; it now needs the Map Tiles API only. Both
+routes answer in Google's own `status`/`results` shape rather than the Places
+routes' `places: []` contract, because the browser adapters normalize that shape
+directly. The browser key still gates the provider client-side, so a keyless
+session spends no request to learn it has no Google: the route's own keyless
+answer reads as an unanswered provider, which would stop the chain caching the
+negative Photon or Nominatim then produces. Its query is capped at 200
+characters, its reverse coordinates are validated against WGS84 bounds before
+the request is paid for, and a malformed viewport bias is dropped rather than
+refused, since a bias only ranks results.
 
 Only valid answers and definitive misses enter bounded caches; malformed replies,
 HTTP refusals and outages remain retryable. Searches share a 12-second total

server/providers/local.js

@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ export { LL2_CACHE_TTL_MS, launchLibraryRequestHeaders } from './space.js';
 export { googlePlacesContextProxy } from './places.js';
 export { googleServerApiKey } from './places.js';
 export { keylessGooglePlacesResponse } from './places.js';
+export { keylessGoogleGeocodeResponse } from './places.js';
+export { validateGeocodeAddress } from './places.js';
+export { geocodeBounds } from './places.js';
 export { adsbLolFallbackAnchor } from './aircraft/opensky.js';
 export { readResponseTextCapped } from './common/http.js';
 export { readResponseJsonCapped } from './common/http.js';

server/providers/places.js

@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 /** Place-search and route middleware for Node development servers. */
-export { googlePlacesContextProxy } from './places/google.js';
+export {
+  googlePlacesContextProxy,
+  validateGeocodeAddress,
+  geocodeBounds,
+} from './places/google.js';
 export {
   googleServerApiKey,
   keylessGooglePlacesResponse,
+  keylessGoogleGeocodeResponse,
 } from './places/google-key.js';
 export { installRouteMiddleware } from './places/routes.js';
 export {

server/providers/places/google-key.js

@@ -14,12 +14,33 @@ export function keylessGooglePlacesResponse(apiKey) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Google API key for the SERVER-SIDE calls (Places nearby/text search, the
- * CCTV Street View fallback). These never reach the browser, so this key can
- * be restricted by server IP and scoped to Places API + Street View Static
- * API — while GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY stays referrer-restricted to Map Tiles +
- * Geocoding for the browser (#33). Splitting them is opt-in: unset, this
- * falls back to the shared browser key and nothing changes.
+ * Geocoding speaks Google's own response shape rather than the `places: []`
+ * contract its two siblings use, because the browser adapters read `status`
+ * and `results` directly. The keyless capability reads the same way: a status
+ * that is not `OK` and no results, which the adapters already treat as "this
+ * provider did not answer" and pass to the next geocoder in the chain.
+ */
+export function keylessGoogleGeocodeResponse(apiKey) {
+  if (String(apiKey ?? '').trim()) return null;
+  return {
+    statusCode: 200,
+    payload: {
+      configured: false,
+      status: 'REQUEST_DENIED',
+      results: [],
+      error: null,
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Google API key for the SERVER-SIDE calls (Places nearby/text search,
+ * geocoding, the CCTV Street View fallback). These never reach the browser, so
+ * this key can be restricted by server IP and scoped to Places API + Geocoding
+ * API + Street View Static API — while GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY stays
+ * referrer-restricted to Map Tiles for the browser (#33, #363). Splitting them
+ * is opt-in: unset, this falls back to the shared browser key, which then has
+ * to carry every API both sides use and cannot take a referrer restriction.
  */
 export function googleServerApiKey() {
   return resolveGoogleServerKey(process.env);

server/providers/places/google.js

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import {
   googleServerApiKey,
   keylessGooglePlacesResponse,
+  keylessGoogleGeocodeResponse,
 } from './google-key.js';
 import { makeOptInRateLimiter, clientKey } from '../common/rate-limit.js';
 import {
@@ -42,6 +43,37 @@ export function validatePlacesCoordinates(searchParams) {
   return { ok: true, latitude, longitude };
 }
 
+/** Longest accepted geocoder query. Real place names are far shorter. */
+const GEOCODE_MAX_QUERY = 200;
+
+/** Validate a free-text geocoder query before consuming request quota. */
+export function validateGeocodeAddress(searchParams) {
+  const address = String(searchParams.get('address') || '').trim();
+  if (!address) return { ok: false, error: 'address is required' };
+  if (address.length > GEOCODE_MAX_QUERY)
+    return { ok: false, error: 'address is too long' };
+  return { ok: true, address };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Validate the optional viewport bias, which Google reads as
+ * `sw_lat,sw_lng|ne_lat,ne_lng`. An unparsed value is dropped rather than
+ * refused: the bias only ranks results, so a malformed one costs relevance,
+ * not an answer.
+ */
+export function geocodeBounds(searchParams) {
+  const raw = String(searchParams.get('bounds') || '').trim();
+  if (!raw) return null;
+  const corners = raw.split('|');
+  if (corners.length !== 2) return null;
+  const numbers = corners.flatMap((corner) => corner.split(',').map(Number));
+  if (numbers.length !== 4 || !numbers.every(Number.isFinite)) return null;
+  const [swLat, swLon, neLat, neLon] = numbers;
+  if (Math.abs(swLat) > 90 || Math.abs(neLat) > 90) return null;
+  if (Math.abs(swLon) > 180 || Math.abs(neLon) > 180) return null;
+  return raw;
+}
+
 /** Nearby place labels and view-biased text search, with request-time key resolution. */
 export function googlePlacesContextProxy({
   resolveApiKey = googleServerApiKey,
@@ -274,6 +306,129 @@ export function googlePlacesContextProxy({
         );
       }
     });
+
+    /**
+     * Geocoding belongs on the server, not in the page. Google's Geocoding web
+     * service refuses referrer-restricted keys, so calling it from the browser
+     * forces GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY — which ships in the bundle by design — to be
+     * left unrestricted (#363). Here the request carries the server key, and
+     * the browser key no longer needs the Geocoding API at all.
+     *
+     * Unlike the two Places routes above, these answer in Google's own shape
+     * (`status` + `results`) rather than the `places: []` contract: the browser
+     * normalizers read that shape directly, and keeping it means the proxy adds
+     * a hop without adding a translation nobody asked for.
+     */
+    function installGeocodeRoute(path, readQuery) {
+      middlewares.use(path, async (req, res) => {
+        const refuse = (statusCode, error) => {
+          res.statusCode = statusCode;
+          res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
+          res.end(
+            JSON.stringify({ status: 'REQUEST_DENIED', results: [], error }),
+          );
+        };
+
+        if (req.method !== 'GET') {
+          refuse(405, 'Method not allowed');
+          return;
+        }
+
+        // A keyless geocode has no provider cost, so it resolves before the
+        // paid-endpoint limiter can consume or exhaust quota (mirrors the
+        // Places routes above).
+        const apiKey = resolveApiKey();
+        const keyless = keylessGoogleGeocodeResponse(apiKey);
+        if (keyless) {
+          res.statusCode = keyless.statusCode;
+          res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
+          res.setHeader('Cache-Control', 'no-store');
+          res.end(JSON.stringify(keyless.payload));
+          return;
+        }
+
+        const requestUrl = new URL(req.url || '', 'http://localhost');
+        const query = readQuery(requestUrl.searchParams);
+        if (!query.ok) {
+          refuse(400, query.error);
+          return;
+        }
+
+        // Opt-in per-IP throttle (GEV_RATELIMIT_GOOGLE_PER_MIN), shared with
+        // the Places routes because both spend the same Google budget.
+        const _grl = googleRateLimiter();
+        if (_grl && !_grl(clientKey(req))) {
+          res.statusCode = 429;
+          res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
+          res.setHeader('Retry-After', '5');
+          res.end(
+            JSON.stringify({
+              status: 'OVER_QUERY_LIMIT',
+              results: [],
+              error: 'Rate limit exceeded',
+            }),
+          );
+          return;
+        }
+
+        try {
+          const upstream = new URL(
+            endpoints.geocode ||
+              'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json',
+          );
+          for (const [name, value] of Object.entries(query.params))
+            upstream.searchParams.set(name, value);
+          upstream.searchParams.set('key', apiKey);
+          const response = await fetchImpl(upstream.toString(), {
+            redirect: 'error',
+          });
+          const data = await response.json().catch(() => null);
+
+          res.statusCode = response.ok ? 200 : response.status;
+          res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8');
+          res.setHeader('Cache-Control', 'private, max-age=300');
+          res.end(
+            JSON.stringify(
+              data ?? {
+                status: 'UNKNOWN_ERROR',
+                results: [],
+                error: 'Google Geocoding request failed',
+              },
+            ),
+          );
+        } catch (error) {
+          res.statusCode = 502;
+          res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8');
+          res.end(
+            JSON.stringify({
+              status: 'UNKNOWN_ERROR',
+              results: [],
+              error: error?.message || 'Google Geocoding request failed',
+            }),
+          );
+        }
+      });
+    }
+
+    installGeocodeRoute('/api/google/geocode', (searchParams) => {
+      const address = validateGeocodeAddress(searchParams);
+      if (!address.ok) return address;
+      const bounds = geocodeBounds(searchParams);
+      return {
+        ok: true,
+        params: {
+          address: address.address,
+          ...(bounds ? { bounds } : {}),
+        },
+      };
+    });
+
+    installGeocodeRoute('/api/google/reverse-geocode', (searchParams) => {
+      const coordinates = validatePlacesCoordinates(searchParams);
+      if (!coordinates.ok) return coordinates;
+      const { latitude, longitude } = coordinates;
+      return { ok: true, params: { latlng: `${latitude},${longitude}` } };
+    });
   }
 
   return {

src/annotations/annotationEngine.test.mjs

@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ test('outline upgrade updates the rendered element in place without remove/add',
   };
   let overpassCall = 0;
   globalThis.fetch = async (url) => {
-    if (String(url).startsWith('https://maps.googleapis.com/')) {
+    if (String(url).startsWith('/api/google/geocode')) {
       return { json: async () => ({
         status: 'OK',
         results: [{

src/annotations/annotationResolver.test.mjs

@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ test('ask-side admin bypass: "the Texas Capitol" recovers near-view despite a fa
   const calls = [];
   installGoogleMocks(t, async (url) => {
     calls.push(String(url));
-    if (String(url).startsWith('https://maps.googleapis.com/')) {
+    if (String(url).startsWith('/api/google/geocode')) {
       return { json: async () => geocodePayload({
         lat: 31.0000,
         lon: -99.0000,
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ test('ask-side admin bypass: explicit "state of Texas" skips recovery and proxim
   const calls = [];
   installGoogleMocks(t, async (url) => {
     calls.push(String(url));
-    assert.match(String(url), /^https:\/\/maps\.googleapis\.com\/maps\/api\/geocode/);
+    assert.match(String(url), /^\/api\/google\/geocode\?/);
     return { json: async () => geocodePayload({
       lat: 31.0000,
       lon: -99.0000,
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ for (const fixture of [
     const calls = [];
     installGoogleMocks(t, async (url) => {
       calls.push(String(url));
-      if (String(url).startsWith('https://maps.googleapis.com/')) {
+      if (String(url).startsWith('/api/google/geocode')) {
         return { json: async () => geocodePayload({
           lat: fixture.lat,
           lon: fixture.lon,
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ test('ask-side admin bypass: bare "Texas" remains on the guarded recovery path',
   const calls = [];
   installGoogleMocks(t, async (url) => {
     calls.push(String(url));
-    if (String(url).startsWith('https://maps.googleapis.com/')) {
+    if (String(url).startsWith('/api/google/geocode')) {
       return { json: async () => geocodePayload({
         lat: 31.0000,
         lon: -99.0000,
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ test('ask-side admin bypass: admin level 2/3 result types never grant a township
   const calls = [];
   installGoogleMocks(t, async (url) => {
     calls.push(String(url));
-    if (String(url).startsWith('https://maps.googleapis.com/')) {
+    if (String(url).startsWith('/api/google/geocode')) {
       const query = new URL(String(url)).searchParams.get('address');
       return { json: async () => geocodePayload({
         lat: 39.7817,
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ function installCapitolMocks(t, elements, components = [
   { long_name: 'Capitol Hill', types: ['neighborhood', 'political'] },
 ]) {
   installGoogleMocks(t, async (url) => {
-    if (String(url).startsWith('https://maps.googleapis.com/')) {
+    if (String(url).startsWith('/api/google/geocode')) {
       return { json: async () => ({ status: 'OK', results: [{
         formatted_address: 'Washington, DC 20004, USA',
         types: ['establishment', 'landmark', 'point_of_interest', 'tourist_attraction'],
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ test('keyless: a key that geocodes to nothing still anchors the annotation', asy
   const requests = [];
   installGoogleMocks(t, async (url) => {
     requests.push(String(url));
-    if (String(url).startsWith('https://maps.googleapis.com/')) return GOOGLE_FOUND_NOTHING;
+    if (String(url).startsWith('/api/google/geocode')) return GOOGLE_FOUND_NOTHING;
     return {
       ok: true,
       json: async () => ({
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ test('keyless: a key that geocodes to nothing still anchors the annotation', asy
     high: { latitude: 30.28, longitude: -97.68 },
   });
   // Google is asked first and exactly once; one Photon call answers it.
-  assert.equal(requests.filter((url) => url.includes('maps.googleapis.com')).length, 1);
+  assert.equal(requests.filter((url) => url.includes('/api/google/geocode')).length, 1);
   assert.equal(requests.filter((url) => url.includes('photon.komoot.io')).length, 1);
 });
 
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ test('keyless: OSM matching uses the feature\'s canonical name, not the user\'s
 
   installGoogleMocks(t, async (url, init) => {
     const href = String(url);
-    if (href.startsWith('https://maps.googleapis.com/')) return GOOGLE_FOUND_NOTHING;
+    if (href.startsWith('/api/google/geocode')) return GOOGLE_FOUND_NOTHING;
     if (href.startsWith('/api/google/text-search')) return { ok: true, json: async () => ({ places: [] }) };
     if (href.startsWith('https://photon.komoot.io/')) {
       return {
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ test('keyless: a Photon outage is not remembered as "no such place"', async (t)
   const requests = [];
   installGoogleMocks(t, async (url) => {
     requests.push(String(url));
-    if (String(url).startsWith('https://maps.googleapis.com/')) return GOOGLE_FOUND_NOTHING;
+    if (String(url).startsWith('/api/google/geocode')) return GOOGLE_FOUND_NOTHING;
     if (!photonReachable) throw new Error('network down');
     return photonUp;
   });

src/googleGeocodeProxy.test.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import test from 'node:test';
+import {
+  googlePlacesContextProxy,
+  validateGeocodeAddress,
+  geocodeBounds,
+} from '../vite.config.js';
+
+const UPSTREAM = 'https://geocode.test/json';
+
+function installRoutes({ apiKey = 'server-secret', fetchImpl } = {}) {
+  const routes = new Map();
+  googlePlacesContextProxy({
+    resolveApiKey: () => apiKey,
+    fetchImpl,
+    endpoints: { geocode: UPSTREAM },
+  }).configureServer({
+    middlewares: { use: (name, handler) => routes.set(name, handler) },
+  });
+  return routes;
+}
+
+function invokeRoute(handler, { method = 'GET', url = '/' } = {}) {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const headers = new Map();
+    const res = {
+      statusCode: 200,
+      setHeader(name, value) {
+        headers.set(String(name).toLowerCase(), String(value));
+      },
+      end(body = '') {
+        resolve({
+          statusCode: this.statusCode,
+          headers: Object.fromEntries(headers),
+          body: body ? JSON.parse(String(body)) : null,
+        });
+      },
+    };
+    Promise.resolve(
+      handler(
+        { method, url, headers: {}, socket: { remoteAddress: '127.0.0.1' } },
+        res,
+      ),
+    ).catch(reject);
+  });
+}
+
+test('geocoder query and viewport bias are validated before Google is paid', () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(validateGeocodeAddress(new URLSearchParams()), {
+    ok: false,
+    error: 'address is required',
+  });
+  assert.deepEqual(validateGeocodeAddress(new URLSearchParams({ address: '  ' })), {
+    ok: false,
+    error: 'address is required',
+  });
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    validateGeocodeAddress(new URLSearchParams({ address: 'x'.repeat(201) })),
+    { ok: false, error: 'address is too long' },
+  );
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    validateGeocodeAddress(new URLSearchParams({ address: ' Austin ' })),
+    { ok: true, address: 'Austin' },
+  );
+
+  // A bias only ranks results, so an unusable one is dropped, not refused.
+  const bias = '30.1,-97.9|30.4,-97.6';
+  assert.equal(geocodeBounds(new URLSearchParams({ bounds: bias })), bias);
+  for (const bounds of [
+    '',
+    '30.1,-97.9',
+    '30.1,-97.9|30.4',
+    'north,-97.9|30.4,-97.6',
+    '91,-97.9|30.4,-97.6',
+    '30.1,-181|30.4,-97.6',
+  ])
+    assert.equal(geocodeBounds(new URLSearchParams({ bounds })), null);
+});
+
+test('the geocode routes keep the key server-side and answer in Google shape', async () => {
+  const upstream = [];
+  const routes = installRoutes({
+    fetchImpl: async (url) => {
+      upstream.push(new URL(String(url)));
+      return {
+        ok: true,
+        json: async () => ({ status: 'OK', results: [{ place_id: 'fixture' }] }),
+      };
+    },
+  });
+  const forward = routes.get('/api/google/geocode');
+  const reverse = routes.get('/api/google/reverse-geocode');
+  assert.equal(typeof forward, 'function');
+  assert.equal(typeof reverse, 'function');
+
+  const forwarded = await invokeRoute(forward, {
+    url: '/?address=Austin&bounds=30.1,-97.9|30.4,-97.6',
+  });
+  assert.equal(forwarded.statusCode, 200);
+  assert.deepEqual(forwarded.body, {
+    status: 'OK',
+    results: [{ place_id: 'fixture' }],
+  });
+  assert.equal(upstream.at(-1).searchParams.get('address'), 'Austin');
+  assert.equal(upstream.at(-1).searchParams.get('bounds'), '30.1,-97.9|30.4,-97.6');
+  assert.equal(upstream.at(-1).searchParams.get('key'), 'server-secret');
+
+  const reversed = await invokeRoute(reverse, { url: '/?lat=30.27&lon=-97.74' });
+  assert.equal(reversed.statusCode, 200);
+  assert.equal(upstream.at(-1).searchParams.get('latlng'), '30.27,-97.74');
+  assert.equal(upstream.at(-1).searchParams.get('key'), 'server-secret');
+
+  // The key travels to Google, never back to the page that asked.
+  assert.ok(!JSON.stringify(forwarded.body).includes('server-secret'));
+  assert.ok(!JSON.stringify(reversed.body).includes('server-secret'));
+
+  // A malformed bias is dropped rather than forwarded.
+  await invokeRoute(forward, { url: '/?address=Austin&bounds=north' });
+  assert.equal(upstream.at(-1).searchParams.has('bounds'), false);
+});
+
+test('a bad or keyless geocode request never reaches Google', async () => {
+  const upstream = [];
+  const fetchImpl = async (url) => {
+    upstream.push(String(url));
+    return { ok: true, json: async () => ({ status: 'OK', results: [] }) };
+  };
+
+  const routes = installRoutes({ fetchImpl });
+  for (const [path, url] of [
+    ['/api/google/geocode', '/?address='],
+    ['/api/google/reverse-geocode', '/?lat=91&lon=-97.74'],
+  ]) {
+    const response = await invokeRoute(routes.get(path), { url });
+    assert.equal(response.statusCode, 400);
+    assert.deepEqual(response.body.results, []);
+    assert.equal(response.body.status, 'REQUEST_DENIED');
+  }
+
+  for (const path of ['/api/google/geocode', '/api/google/reverse-geocode']) {
+    const rejected = await invokeRoute(routes.get(path), {
+      method: 'POST',
+      url: '/?address=Austin&lat=30&lon=-97',
+    });
+    assert.equal(rejected.statusCode, 405);
+  }
+
+  // Keyless is an empty capability, not an outage: a 200 the browser adapters
+  // read as "this provider did not answer", so the chain moves on. It resolves
+  // ahead of validation, like the Places routes: with nothing configured there
+  // is no request to validate and no quota to protect.
+  const keyless = installRoutes({ apiKey: '  ', fetchImpl });
+  for (const path of ['/api/google/geocode', '/api/google/reverse-geocode'])
+    for (const url of ['/?address=Austin&lat=30&lon=-97', '/?address=&lat=91']) {
+      const response = await invokeRoute(keyless.get(path), { url });
+      assert.equal(response.statusCode, 200);
+      assert.equal(response.headers['cache-control'], 'no-store');
+      assert.deepEqual(response.body, {
+        configured: false,
+        status: 'REQUEST_DENIED',
+        results: [],
+        error: null,
+      });
+    }
+
+  assert.deepEqual(upstream, []);
+});

src/googleServerKey.test.mjs

@@ -67,11 +67,19 @@ test('the Street View tool resolves per-variable overrides before preferring the
   }
 });
 
-test('both Places routes select the intended key and keep it out of responses', async (t) => {
+test('every Google route selects the intended key and keeps it out of responses', async (t) => {
   const original = { server: process.env.GOOGLE_MAPS_SERVER_API_KEY, browser: process.env.GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY, limit: process.env.GEV_RATELIMIT_GOOGLE_PER_MIN };
   const calls = [];
   t.mock.method(globalThis, 'fetch', async (url, options) => {
-    calls.push({ url, key: options.headers['X-Goog-Api-Key'] });
+    // Places sends the key as a header; Geocoding's web service takes it as a
+    // query parameter. Either way it must be the server key, and never the
+    // browser's copy of it.
+    calls.push({
+      url,
+      key:
+        options?.headers?.['X-Goog-Api-Key'] ??
+        new URL(String(url)).searchParams.get('key'),
+    });
     return Response.json({ places: [] });
   });
   try {
@@ -88,12 +96,12 @@ test('both Places routes select the intended key and keep it out of responses',
       for (const install of ['configureServer', 'configurePreviewServer']) {
         const routes = new Map();
         googlePlacesContextProxy()[install]({ middlewares: { use: (name, handler) => routes.set(name, handler) } });
-        assert.equal(routes.size, 2);
+        assert.equal(routes.size, 4);
         for (const handler of routes.values()) {
           const before = calls.length;
           let body;
           const res = { setHeader() {}, end(value) { body = value; } };
-          await handler({ method: 'GET', url: '/?lat=30&lon=-97&q=capitol', headers: {}, socket: { remoteAddress: '127.0.0.1' } }, res);
+          await handler({ method: 'GET', url: '/?lat=30&lon=-97&q=capitol&address=capitol', headers: {}, socket: { remoteAddress: '127.0.0.1' } }, res);
           assert.equal(res.statusCode, 200);
           assert.ok(!body.includes('server-secret'));
           if (expected) {

src/search/defaults.js

@@ -40,18 +40,23 @@ export function createDefaultPlaceSearch({
       ...(selected
         ? [selected]
         : [
+            // Google answers through the local proxy, which holds the server
+            // key: its Geocoding web service refuses referrer-restricted keys,
+            // so calling it from here would force the bundled browser key to be
+            // left unrestricted (#363). That key still gates the provider,
+            // because a keyless session must not spend a request to learn it
+            // has no Google: the proxy's "not configured" reads as an
+            // unanswered provider, which stops the chain caching the negative
+            // Photon or Nominatim then produces.
             createGoogleGeocoder({
               request(query, { bias, signal }) {
-                const key = resolveApiKey?.();
-                if (!key) return null;
-                const url = new URL(
-                  endpoints.geocode ||
-                    'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json',
+                if (!resolveApiKey?.()) return null;
+                const params = new URLSearchParams({ address: query });
+                if (bias) params.set('bounds', bias);
+                return fetchImpl(
+                  `${endpoints.geocode || '/api/google/geocode'}?${params}`,
+                  { signal },
                 );
-                url.searchParams.set('address', query);
-                url.searchParams.set('key', key);
-                if (bias) url.searchParams.set('bounds', bias);
-                return fetchImpl(url.toString(), { signal });
               },
             }),
             createPhotonGeocoder({ fetchImpl, endpoint: endpoints.photon }),

src/search/http.js

@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ export function createHttpGeospatialProvider({
   endpoints = {},
 } = {}) {
   const urls = {
-    reverse: 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json',
+    // Same-origin like its siblings below: Google's Geocoding web service
+    // refuses referrer-restricted keys, so the key stays on the server (#363).
+    reverse: '/api/google/reverse-geocode',
     textSearch: '/api/google/text-search',
     nearby: '/api/google/nearby-places',
     route: '/api/route',
@@ -88,14 +90,11 @@ export function createHttpGeospatialProvider({
     },
     routeProfiles: ['foot', 'car', 'bike'],
     async reverseGeocode(latitude, longitude, options) {
-      const key = resolveApiKey?.();
-      if (resolveApiKey && !key) return null;
+      // The browser key gates the provider without travelling with the
+      // request: the proxy supplies the key Google actually sees.
+      if (resolveApiKey && !resolveApiKey()) return null;
       return normalizeGoogleReverse(
-        await json(
-          urls.reverse,
-          { latlng: `${latitude},${longitude}`, ...(key ? { key } : {}) },
-          options,
-        ),
+        await json(urls.reverse, { lat: latitude, lon: longitude }, options),
       );
     },
     async textSearch(query, { latitude, longitude, radiusM = 6000 }, options) {

src/search/placeSearch.test.mjs

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ test('standalone geocoding falls back after Google connection, JSON and refusal
   for (const fail of [() => { throw new Error('offline'); }, () => new Response('invalid json'), () => Response.json({ status: 'REQUEST_DENIED' })]) {
     const urls = [];
     const service = createStandalonePlaceSearch({ resolveApiKey: () => 'fixture', fetchImpl: async (url) => {
-      urls.push(url); return url.includes('maps.googleapis.com') ? fail() : hit();
+      urls.push(url); return url.includes('/api/google/geocode') ? fail() : hit();
     } });
     const result = await service.geocode('Hanoi');
     assert.equal(result.place.name, 'Hà Nội');

src/voice/gevActions.test.mjs

@@ -3082,7 +3082,7 @@ test('voice Radio: a key that geocodes to nothing still places the station, keyl
   const requests = [];
   installKeyedFetch(t, async (url) => {
     requests.push(String(url));
-    if (String(url).startsWith('https://maps.googleapis.com/')) {
+    if (String(url).startsWith('/api/google/geocode')) {
       return { ok: true, json: async () => ({ status: 'ZERO_RESULTS', results: [] }) };
     }
     assert.match(String(url), /^https:\/\/photon\.komoot\.io\/api\/\?/);
@@ -3107,7 +3107,7 @@ test('voice Radio: a key that geocodes to nothing still places the station, keyl
   assert.ok(Math.abs(calls[0].criteria.anchor.lat - 20.9101) < 1e-9);
   assert.ok(Math.abs(calls[0].criteria.anchor.lon - 107.1839) < 1e-9);
   // Google is asked first and exactly once; Photon answers unbiased, in one call.
-  assert.equal(requests.filter((url) => url.includes('maps.googleapis.com')).length, 1);
+  assert.equal(requests.filter((url) => url.includes('/api/google/geocode')).length, 1);
   assert.equal(requests.filter((url) => url.includes('photon.komoot.io')).length, 1);
   assert.match(requests.at(-1), /[?&]q=H%E1%BA%A1\+Long\+Bay/);
   assert.doesNotMatch(requests.at(-1), /[?&](lat|lon|bbox)=/, 'a named radio location is not viewport-biased');
@@ -3120,7 +3120,7 @@ test('voice Radio: the keyless path applies no country filter the keyed path wou
   // "No Radio station matched" for exactly the places it just resolved, while a
   // keyed install placed a station. The label may carry it; the filter may not.
   const { calls, dataManager } = radioSelectionHarness();
-  installKeyedFetch(t, async (url) => (String(url).startsWith('https://maps.googleapis.com/')
+  installKeyedFetch(t, async (url) => (String(url).startsWith('/api/google/geocode')
     ? { ok: true, json: async () => ({ status: 'ZERO_RESULTS', results: [] }) }
     : {
       ok: true,