IPhoto '11 maps showing only grey, is there a solution?

I have been using iPhoto 11 on my Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 for one and a half year now, and since yesterday, after nothing in particular, all my maps are just grey... The location is still there, I can see it because of the name above where the map was supposed to be, but no map itself.. Not there, not in manage my places and certenly not in the big map (which is not only grey, but with a never stoping "loading" clock)...
I don't know what to do, I have found several old threads like:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4044052
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3997428
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3986344
But I have tried both deleting google cookies from Safari as well as turning wifi off and on as suggested and nothing worked, not even temporarely... Neither did deleting com.apple.iphoto.plist preference file... I keep thinking it is not an iPhoto issue, but maybe Safari's as some people have mentioned, because I have tried creating a new user account to test starting a new library from scratch, and the maps are still grey...
I realize that the other threads are old, and mainly about people using iPhoto 9, so I was wondering if there has been a change, and people know how to fix it nowadays...
Any ideas? I am at a loss of what to do know... I really enjoy tagging my photos and having them all organized... :/

You may be right, I don't know why, but today as I turned on my mac everything was back to normal... I decided to comment here because it had been like that for more than a day, I had tried restarting the mac several times as well as the other attemps mentioned on the first post...
It was probably just an issue with the server after all... Thank God! hahaha
If anything changes I will comment again...

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