Feature Addition: Ability to have custom mbtile overlays #318
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Hey,
I wanted the ability to create an overlay layer in tilemill which I could then overlay with field papers. The basic flow is the following:
I have implemented the bulk of this, but am still testing.
One debatable issue I ran into was the empty tile. Because the overlay mbtile mostly be empty tiles to let the base layer shine through, I commented out the empty tile logic:

So this is NOT ready to officially merge to master yet, but is functional and I wanted to get some feedback.
Thanks.