International boundaries on mapbox-based visualizations: Legal issues

[pradhangn]

Problem:

Each country has legal regulations on what boundaries you can display on a map (eg. India, China). Due to disputes there are differing boundary definitions in each jurisdiction. Currently Superset shows a default mapbox country boundary which would violate Indian and Chinese and possibly other countries laws.

This means companies or users who make dashboards or share screenshots of mapbox visualizations from superset may be subject to legal backlash from Governments.

Solution:

Mapbox offers a solution through their world views feature:
Blog: https://blog.mapbox.com/dynamically-change-disputed-national-borders-14c820cae923
Code example: https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/toggle-worldviews/

We can use this mapbox feature in 2 ways:

1. A system setting to control the world-view option via superset config file: simple change
2. Add ability to change worldview in each visualization that uses mapbox: larger scope

Alternatives

We don't have an alternative that will follow the law of all jurisdictions