Doctors and researchers at the University of Washington with Microsoft volunteers have built a tool to alert you about highly relevant public health announcements, potential exposure to COVID-19, and to assist public health officials and contact tracing teams without compromising your personal privacy.
It would be really great if we could have a static image of a map next to: 1) Each of the locations in the contact log 2) Exposure notifications
EDIT: Not sure if the Google Maps API route is the only way, there might be other ways that don't require money.
We can use this cloud service, but the issue of course is money: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/maps-static/usage-and-billing
However, given that there is a real potential for adoption, individual states could potentially be able to fund cloud services like this.
The ask in this issue is to be able to add in the static maps for development testing and have a flag to turn it on or off.
So if we decide we want it, we can turn it on, and add in the appropriate API key.
And if we decide a particular deployment doesn't need it. Then we can leave it off.
The API key for testing and development can be shared privately