Cartography & Visualization

Ivan Malagon and Mamata Akella • May 14, 2019

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...

Alberto Romeu • Mar 6, 2019

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 ...

Florence Broderick • Dec 28, 2018

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...

Stephanie Mongon • Nov 27, 2018

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.

Mamata Akella • Aug 16, 2018

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.

Alberto Romeu • May 14, 2018

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:

Javier Goizueta • Jan 9, 2018

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.

Mamata Akella • Dec 4, 2017

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.

Devon Hopkins • Jun 14, 2017

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.

Stephanie Mongon • Jul 22, 2016

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.

Stephanie Mongon • Jun 28, 2016

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...

Sergio Álvarez • May 4, 2016

Data Mountains: Visualizing Bivariate Maps in a Different Way