Switch map tiles from CartoDB positron to OpenStreetMap (no API key)
CartoDB's positron basemap now renders an "API KEY REQUIRED" watermark. Use tiles="OpenStreetMap" via a new MAP_TILES constant instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -36,6 +36,20 @@ Numeric parsing is deliberately deferred to `get_map_data` (`pd.to_numeric(...,
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errors="coerce")`). Don't "fix" columns to float on load — blank coordinates and
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leading-zero PLZ both depend on the string representation.
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## CartoDB "positron" tiles now require an API key (2026-09-07)
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The original `folium.Map(tiles="CartoDB positron")` started rendering an
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"API KEY REQUIRED / carto.com/basemaps/apikey" watermark – Carto moved its
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basemaps behind a key. Switched to `tiles="OpenStreetMap"` (constant
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`MAP_TILES`), which needs no key. Trade-off: OSM standard tiles are more
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colourful than positron's muted grey. Other no-key options if a lighter look is
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wanted: OSM Germany (`tile.openstreetmap.de`), OSM France Hot
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(`{s}.tile.openstreetmap.fr/hot`) – both still colourful. Truly muted
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key-free basemaps are hard to find now.
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Don't assume a "free" third-party tile source stays free – pin the provider in
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one constant so swapping it is a one-line change.
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## Nominatim query order matters
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`geocode_city` returns the **first** hit, trying PLZ-qualified first, then each
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