We’re thrilled to announce that the Data Observatory is welcoming Mexico into the fold with an impressive array of demographic data from the Mexican Census. This new data is specific to the block level in metropolitan areas!

We are making so many new measures available through the Data Observatory that we just had to highlight some interesting ones. 1. US population with a Master’s Degree

In previous posts, we covered how the Mobile SDK can be used for indoor mapping. We really like indoor mapping because it is a unique way to visualize nontraditional geographic spaces like conferences, hospitals, and museums. A great example of this is the L.A. Times interactive graphic that charts every...

The Data Observatory keeps on growing! After our initial release, which included the American Community Survey in the United States and the Spanish Census, and later demographic data from the U.K., we’ve leveraged local economic indicators from CaixaBank to vastly expand the scope of the Data Observatory.

We are proud to announce the availability of demographic data for England and Wales from the Office for National Statistics in the United Kingdom.

The data we collect about the world is rarely as clean as we would like it to be. Often times data is noisy or incomplete and because of this we draw false conclusions from our data. One of the biggest sources of potential error in geodata comes from not properly...

Flictec, Inc., is a Japanese mobile application development company. They have been avid users of our Mobile SDK and the CARTO platform for many years. One of the solutions they provide is an advanced traffic and navigation application 渋滞ナビ or Jyutai Navi (Japanese for traffic jam navigator), with millions of...

If you follow us on Twitter at all you have probably seen our announcement of the Data Observatory. We are excited about the release and also excited about what it brings to the CARTO community. While the Data Observatory looks like it is all about data, that’s the tip of...

Lately we’ve been talking a lot about vector maps and how to better utilize the capabilities of our Mobile SDK when rendering your maps for your devices.

In a previous blog post we announced our demographic segmentation service as part of the Data Observatory. In today’s post we will discuss how we generate these segments and how we went about giving them names.

A feature frequently requested by more advanced Mobile SDK users is the ability to edit and modify vector map data in a mobile app. Well, we are here to tell you that it is not only entirely possible, but that it can be done in many different ways!

As part of our Data Observatory rollout, CARTO is excited to announce that we are maintaining shoreline clipped versions of the USA boundaries provided by U.S. Census TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing). TIGER publishes shapefiles of some of the most important boundaries in the U.S., including U.S. states,...

Over the past couple of weeks, you’ve probably been keeping up with all of the exciting news about CartoDB’s Data Observatory and losing sleep thinking about all of the cool maps that you can make! With all of the information available in the Data Observatory, the thematic mapping possibilities are...

In previous blog posts we primarily covered 2D data and functions. For the most part, CartoDB has largely been a 2D data visualization tool, with 3D maps for the web environment appearing sporadically. Now with the Mobile SDK, we often find ourselves building 3D maps for real use cases and...

The Data Observatory contains a wealth of information available for exploration and data augmentation. In this post we will look at an available dataset provided by the U.S. Census that is very much in the news: United States Congressional Districts. First let’s retrieve all of the U.S. Congressional Districts and...

There are a lot of ways for you to analyze store locations using CartoDB. The combination of Data Observatory, Location Data Services, and Deep Insights gives you a complete toolkit for building actionable dashboards and delivering insights using maps. Today, we are going to really quickly show you a few...

Working offline is kind of a big deal. There are many mobile apps that always need to work, not just when a device is online. In previous posts we covered offline routing features. Today, I’d like to tell you all about offline basemaps for the CartoDB Mobile SDK. It should...

Lately, we’ve been talking a lot about data analysis of segmentation and demographics. Those are two things you are guaranteed to uncover when perusing city data. Cities are over burdened with a plethora of issues like crime, housing, and transportation, and need to provide context and solutions for these issues based on information. What that takes is data, and lots of it.

The U.S. Census is an amazing resource of data and information. The U.S. Census performs a number of regular as well as ongoing surveys that document many facets of people and life in the U.S. These data can often be used to help learn about dimensions of a location and...

For the past few days we have been showing off some sweet maps, data, and use-cases built from CARTO’s Data Observatory. We’re proud of the project and know some of our customers are already gaining a lot of value from using it. Making CARTO users happy and successful is our...

Earlier this week we released the Data Observatory. We built the Data Observatory because we wanted easier to find and easier to use geospatial data. More than that, we wanted to put in place the foundation for some things we have in store for the future (more on that in my next blog post). We are all a bunch of map and data nerds, so this is a project that really came from our hearts. While the Data Observatory is far from complete, we built it so it could expand rapidly into new areas of data, the first release is enough to have us tearing up a bit. We think it has the power to change the way you analyze location data and potentially the way you think about maps entirely.

As you might have already heard, the Data Observatory just launched to help provide CartoDB users with a universe of data. One of the reasons we built the Data Observatory is because getting the third-party data you need is oftentimes the hardest part of analyzing your own data. Data wrangling...

Recently, we announced our partnership with Mapzen. We are commercializing and integrating some of the great services they are building like routing, geocoding, and global basemap data services. As part of this collaboration, we’ll be converging our technology efforts, and today we are one step closer. We are pleased to...

Now that you’ve mastered indoor mapping, let me introduce you to another great benefit of the mobile SDK. One of the key advantages of vector-basedmaps is that you can re-style them on the client side using just one single map source. This is especially useful for offline map package cases....

Greetings mobile data mappers! This is a very special post coming to you from the Xamarin Evolve conference in sunny Florida. If you are attending, make sure you visit CARTO’s booth (#118) and meet me in person! Now, let’s get back to our regularly scheduled programming in our mobile series,...

Welcome to the next post on mobile development at CartoDB. We have great news today. CartoDB is a proud sponsor of Xamarin Evolve — the largest gathering of Xamarin developers and others around the ecosystem! Xamarin Evolve will take place in Orlando, FL from April 24-28. We’d love you to...

We’re back, with our fifth mobile series post, and today we’ll be explaining offline routing for our Maps SDK.

Welcome to the fourth blog post of our mobile blog series! We hope you have been learning new insights on how to leverage CartoDB’s native mobile SDK for your device. Today, we’ll be discussing the most typical application of the SDK: showing data on a map and how it can...

This is our third post of CartoDB’s mobile blog series. If you’ve missed any of our previous posts you can view them here and here. In this edition, we’ll continue to build on the information from the earlier posts and present new and compelling details on how you can consume...

Welcome to the second blog post of our CartoDB mobile series! I’m back to advise you on how to get started with CartoDB’s native mobile SDK. Currently we offer the well-proven Nutiteq Maps SDK version 3.x as the CartoDB native mobile SDK. One of the first things you’ll notice is...