White Labeling - JohnTigue/idots GitHub Wiki

see Deployment HOWTO see Issue #19

EbolaMapper is a White label product i.e. it is designed to be easily "branded" and styled by deployers. This is important to large news organizations as evidenced by Mapbox's efforts, Custom font support added to Mapbox Studio

How to Style via CSS

Here's Mapbox studios doing fancy styling

• https://www.mapbox.com/blog/terrain-mapbox-studio/
• Even have CartoCSS language
  • https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/crashcourse/styling/

Certainly things like CartoCSS are out of scope, but things like customizing fonts should be easily supported.

• in the D3.js paper:
  "Toolkit-specific scenegraph abstractions diminish compatibility and expressiveness: elements cannot be styled using external stylesheets, and graphical effects such as dashed strokes and composite filters may be unusable even if supported natively."

On political map, CSS controls:
color of countries
stroke color and width

What images can be customized

Various D3.js mark icons
Badging
etc.