From 790571fd2c13c094489ad0f2b01cdca2824000f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Thompson Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:14:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update Map-API docs It was not clear to me what the difference was between a mapnik layer and a cartodb layer until I read the comments in the Mapconfig spec! Let's save some users the extra step :) --- docs/Map-API.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/Map-API.md b/docs/Map-API.md index fe06c777..75f20301 100644 --- a/docs/Map-API.md +++ b/docs/Map-API.md @@ -880,6 +880,8 @@ By manipulating the `"urlTemplate"` custom basemaps can be used in generating st **CartoDB** +As described in the [Mapconfig documentation](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft/blob/0.44.1/doc/MapConfig-1.3.0.md), a "cartodb" type layer is now just an alias to a "mapnik" type layer as above, intended for backwards compatibility. + ```javascript { "type": "cartodb",