Add runtime CARTO_API_KEY for basemap tiles

CARTO now requires an API key for its basemap tiles; without one every
tile in the DEFAULT dark/light map carries an "API KEY REQUIRED"
watermark. The tile URLs were hardcoded in mapStyles.ts with no way to
supply a key, and because the frontend ships as a prebuilt image a
NEXT_PUBLIC_ variable would be baked in empty for every Docker user.

- New frontend-local route GET /api/basemap-config reads CARTO_API_KEY
  from the frontend container's environment at request time (same
  pattern as BACKEND_URL), so no image rebuild is needed.
- useBasemapConfig() fetches it once per page load; MaplibreViewer
  builds the MapLibre style from it via buildBasemapStyle(theme, key)
  and defers the map's first style load until the config has settled,
  avoiding a burst of unkeyed tile requests followed by a style swap.
- Tile URLs move to CARTO's documented rastertiles/ path with ?key=
  appended when configured. Unkeyed URLs serve byte-identical tiles to
  the old path, so deployments without a key behave exactly as before.
- CARTO_API_KEY wired through docker-compose.yml and documented in
  .env.example, README (data source table + frontend env table) and
  docs/OUTBOUND_DATA.md.
- Tests cover the route (unset / set / trimmed) and the style builder.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Fable 5.1
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- **Code:** `frontend/src/components/map/styles/mapStyles.ts`, `frontend/public/map-style.json`
- **Hosts:** `*.basemaps.cartocdn.com`, `demotiles.maplibre.org`
- **Exposure:** **Browser** loads tiles (client IP + pan/zoom), not the backend
- **API key:** CARTO requires a key for basemap tiles. `CARTO_API_KEY` is set on the frontend container and served to the browser by the frontend-local route `/api/basemap-config` (read at request time, never proxied to the backend). The browser then sends it to `*.basemaps.cartocdn.com` as a `?key=` query parameter on every tile request. Unset it to keep the previous unkeyed behavior (watermarked tiles).
- **Mitigation:** Self-host raster tiles and point MapLibre `sources` at your tile server (operator choice; not required for core features)
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