Over the past year, both of our mapping providers (first Google Maps and more recently MapBox) have dramatically raised their prices. In the case of Google Maps, they raised their prices 12X, making it impossible for us to continue using their service. So, we switched to MapBox in the fall of 2018. Initially, the service was affordable, but in December 2019, MapBox doubled their prices, and as a result, we’ve had to implement the “Show Map” functionality more broadly to reduce our costs.
We do have the ability to remove the preview functionality for some of our partners and users who support us on Patreon, so if you’d like to use Tripline without previews, please support us on Patreon.