CARTO
Data Observatory

Access thousands of public & premium datasets from curated sources to enrich your own data and boost your insights - directly from your lakehouse.

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Trusted by world's leading geospatial teams

Save time on finding, trying & buying third-party data

Data Scientists & Analysts typically only spend 20% of their time analyzing. With our Data Observatory you can take away the pain of discovery, evaluation & ETLing, and ensure your team maximizes the time spent on the models that answer your most pressing business questions.

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Data enrichment with spatial data made easy

CARTO Workflows offers you a set of components to enrich with spatial data from your Data Observatory subscriptions in a matter of seconds with a simple-to-use, visual language.

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Access data directly in your cloud data warehouse

CARTO leverages the native data sharing capabilities of your cloud data warehouse to provide you access to your data subscriptions.

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Forget about managing copies of data across multiple environments, and get access to your ready-to-use and always up-to-date subscriptions directly where you need them.

12,000 data products from global trusted sources at your fingerprints

Our team of data experts spends time vetting providers so you don’t have to. We work side by side with market leaders to provide you with the highest-quality, most accurate & relevant data globally.

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Become a data partner

Looking for new channels for your data products? Look no further. Our Data Observatory is a one-stop shop for geospatial datasets, allowing users to get the location data they need fast and ready to be used in their spatial analytics platform.

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Frequently asked questions

Can I license premium data with a trial, or student account?

No, premium data subscriptions are only available for Enterprise plans. For Trial and Student plans, you will only have access to data samples or public data products from the Data Observatory.

Are premium data subscriptions based on perpetual licenses?

Premium subscriptions are offered on a Data-as-a-Service model based on yearly or multi-yearly licenses. Once the subscription expires and it is not renewed, the user needs to stop using and delete the associated datasets from the account.

Can I export the data from CARTO and use it on other platforms?

It will depend on the data provider and the type of license you have purchased for your premium data subscription. Some data providers offer different types of licenses and different pricing options if their data is going to be used only within a CARTO application or exported into other technologies.

How do you provide access to the subscribed data products?

We use the native data-sharing capabilities of cloud data warehouse platforms to grant you access to your subscribed data. In such a way, you can then use your subscriptions in CARTO via the same native connections you have established between our platform and your data warehouse.