diff --git a/qgeotilefetchergooglemaps.cpp b/qgeotilefetchergooglemaps.cpp
index fc11c1b..a58d1f5 100644
--- a/qgeotilefetchergooglemaps.cpp
+++ b/qgeotilefetchergooglemaps.cpp
@@ -20,16 +20,6 @@
 
 QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
 
-namespace
-{
-
-    int _getServerNum(int x, int y, int max)
-    {
-        return (x + 2 * y) % max;
-    }
-
-}
-
 QGeoTileFetcherGooglemaps::QGeoTileFetcherGooglemaps(const QVariantMap &parameters,
                                            QGeoTiledMappingManagerEngineGooglemaps *engine,
                                            const QSize &tileSize)
@@ -50,32 +40,13 @@ QGeoTileFetcherGooglemaps::QGeoTileFetcherGooglemaps(const QVariantMap &paramete
         _userAgent = parameters.value(QStringLiteral("googlemaps.useragent")).toString().toLatin1();
     else
         _userAgent = "";
-//        _userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i586; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0";
-
     QStringList langs = QLocale::system().uiLanguages();
     if (langs.length() > 0) {
         _language = langs[0];
     }
 
     // Google version strings
-    _versionGoogleMap            = "m@338000000";
-    _versionGoogleSatellite      = "198";
-    _versionGoogleLabels         = "h@336";
-    _versionGoogleTerrain        = "t@132,r@338000000";
     _secGoogleWord               = "Galileo";
-
-//    _tryCorrectGoogleVersions(m_networkManager);
-
-//    netRequest.setRawHeader("Referrer", "https://www.google.com/maps/preview");
-//    netRequest.setRawHeader("Accept", "*/*");
-//    netRequest.setRawHeader("User-Agent", _userAgent);
-
-    /*  2017: support new Google Maps Tile API (yet under development)
-        You have to be whitelisted to use the Tile API. I can't tell how to get whitelisted.
-        see https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/tile/
-        To use the new feature getUrl() and parsing the response has to be adapted. Maybe more than that...
-    */
-//    _getSessionToken();
 }
 
 QGeoTileFetcherGooglemaps::~QGeoTileFetcherGooglemaps()
@@ -195,24 +166,6 @@ void QGeoTileFetcherGooglemaps::_googleVersionCompleted()
         qDebug() << "Error collecting Google maps version info";
         return;
     }
-    QString html = QString(_googleReply->readAll());
-
-    QRegExp reg("\"*https?://mt\\D?\\d..*/vt\\?lyrs=m@(\\d*)", Qt::CaseInsensitive);
-    if (reg.indexIn(html) != -1) {
-        QStringList gc = reg.capturedTexts();
-        _versionGoogleMap = QString("m@%1").arg(gc[1]);
-    }
-    reg = QRegExp("\"*https?://khm\\D?\\d.googleapis.com/kh\\?v=(\\d*)", Qt::CaseInsensitive);
-    if (reg.indexIn(html) != -1) {
-        QStringList gc = reg.capturedTexts();
-        _versionGoogleSatellite = gc[1];
-    }
-    reg = QRegExp("\"*https?://mt\\D?\\d..*/vt\\?lyrs=t@(\\d*),r@(\\d*)", Qt::CaseInsensitive);
-    if (reg.indexIn(html) != -1) {
-        QStringList gc = reg.capturedTexts();
-        _versionGoogleTerrain = QString("t@%1,r@%2").arg(gc[1]).arg(gc[2]);
-    }
-
     _googleReply->deleteLater();
     _googleReply = NULL;
 }
diff --git a/qgeotilefetchergooglemaps.h b/qgeotilefetchergooglemaps.h
index 2c0b366..4a888c6 100644
--- a/qgeotilefetchergooglemaps.h
+++ b/qgeotilefetchergooglemaps.h
@@ -49,19 +49,13 @@ private slots:
     QString m_client;
     QString m_baseUri;
 
-    int             _timeout;
     bool            _googleVersionRetrieved;
     QNetworkReply*  _googleReply;
     QMutex          _googleVersionMutex;
     QByteArray      _userAgent;
     QString         _language;
-    QJsonValue      _sessionToken;
 
     // Google version strings
-    QString         _versionGoogleMap;
-    QString         _versionGoogleSatellite;
-    QString         _versionGoogleLabels;
-    QString         _versionGoogleTerrain;
     QString         _secGoogleWord;
 
     QNetworkRequest netRequest;