Making the Map: Game of Thrones Trivia
Like much of the rest of the world, the team here at CARTO includes dozens of passionate fans of HBO’s megahit, Game of Thrones, which comes to its much anticipated conclus...
Cartography & Visualization
Written by Alberto Romeu on
Exporting Maps for Printing in the Digital Maps Era
You have probably heard about Microsoft’s work this past year, in training a neural network to polygonize satellite imagery into building footprints. This work resulted in ...
Cartography & Visualization
Written by Florence Broderick on
CARTO 2018: Our Year In Review
2018 is drawing to a close and here at CARTO it has been a year for the record books. From January’s company retreat in Valencia to this month’s inclusion as Strong Perform...
Cartography & Visualization
Written by Stephanie Mongon on
4 solutions to common problems when making location data maps
The recent releases of CARTO VL and Airship presented the opportunity for a post on solving common mapping problems.
Cartography & Visualization
Written by Mamata Akella on
Visualizing the spread of current fires with CARTO VL
Using synced data streams and CARTO VL, this map shows active fire perimeters and their growth since the beginning of July.
Cartography & Visualization
Written by Alberto Romeu on
A SQL approach to graph coloring applied to maps
At CARTO we challenge ourselves to use our platform as our users do. For us, this serves several purposes:
Cartography & Visualization
Written by Javier Goizueta on
Aggregating data for faster map tiles
We have recently implemented dynamic aggregation for both raster and Mapbox Vector Tiles in CARTO’s Engine. You can find the documentation here.
Cartography & Visualization
Written by Mamata Akella on
A new look for Positron and Dark Matter basemaps
Today, we are excited to share the new and enhanced versions of our signature basemaps, Positron and Dark Matter.
Cartography & Visualization
Written by Devon Hopkins on
4 Powerful Historical Maps Every Data Analyst Should Know
While early cartographers didn’t use the term “location intelligence,” they were keenly aware that their maps had an intended purpose.
Cartography & Visualization
Written by Stephanie Mongon on
New Academy Lesson: How to Choose Map Colors, Part 2
Learn how to create beautiful, informative map palettes step-by-step in our new Map Academy Intermediate Design lesson: How to Choose Map Colors, Part 2.
Cartography & Visualization
Written by Stephanie Mongon on
New Academy Lesson: How to Choose Map Colors
Do you want to go beyond using default color schemes for your map, but don’t know where to start? Or do you need to make your map more legible, but aren’t sure how? We’ll s...
Cartography & Visualization
Academy
Written by David Manzanares on
State of the Art Styling in CARTO VL
One of the most welcomed features of modern vector renderers is the performance advantage they bring to the table. While SVG and Canvas renderers have been developed in the...
Core Tech
Written by Matt Forrest on
Find and fix underperforming retail markets with spatial data models
Although the landscape has drastically transformed over the last decade, retail analytics have not kept pace which is causing some retailers to close the wrong store locati...
Spatial Data
Written by Andy Eschbacher on
Introducing CARTOframes: A Python Interface for CARTO
It’s with a lot of pride that we’re releasing CARTOframes, a Python package for interacting with CARTO that’s built specifically with data scientists in mind.
Core Tech
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