Google Cloud Platform billing accounts will be needed for map use

By Chris W. Jordan
September 17, 2018, 9:39 am EDT

According to: https://mapsplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-google-maps-platform.html beginning on June 11th, 2018, everyone using this theme would need to sign up for a Google Cloud Platform billing account in order to use the map feature of the theme, in addition to creating the API key mentioned in the documentation ( http://uuatheme.org/configuring/configuring-the-map/ ).

That seems inconvenient. Does anyone have any thoughts about an alternative?