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6 Design Principles for Making Maps on the Web
Cartography is as much art as it is science. A map can use the best data and most sophisticated analyses but is ineffective if the reader can’t understand the story behind ...
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What These Bloggers Learned from 6 Years of Running Geoawesomeness
Geoawesomeness, a website with a self-proclaimed focus on all things geospatial, celebrated its sixth anniversary last month. From posts on recently declassified CIA maps, ...
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Map of the Month: Landmine Removal in Nagorno-Karabakh
Nagorno-Karabakh is a landlocked disputed territory in the South Caucasus, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union...
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How to Use Spatial Analysis In Your Site Planning Process
If you’ve ever been part of a new development project for a store or building, you know how many factors go into making decisions about physical location.
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Announcing Microsoft & CARTO Strategic Partnership
Today, we are excited to announce a strategic partnership between Microsoft and CARTO to bring cutting-edge Location Intelligence (LI) solutions to the enterprise world.
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80 Data Visualization Examples Using Location Data and Maps
As the importance of location data continues to grow so do the ways you can visualize this information. We’ve scoured the web in search of data visualizations showing the v...
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A Map of Where People Went After the NYC Pride Parade
Each year, New York City celebrates Pride Month with a large procession down 5th Avenue, passing by the Stonewall Inn, the site of a police raid in 1969 that launched the g...
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The Reason Amazon Bought Whole Foods That No One Is Talking About
If Amazon’s planned [$14 billion acquisition of Whole Foods] goes through, it could radically change the grocery industry. Many news outlets have speculated why Amazon migh...
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3 Retailers Proving Brick and Mortar Isn't Dead
You’ve probably seen the headline a dozen times: “[big box store] closes [large number] of Stores Nationwide.”
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Measuring tile rendering processes to improve performance
One of the most important parts of our infrastructure is how we generate tiles. This process consists of two parts: gathering data and rendering tiles. As part of our missi...
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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.
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How Location Data is Helping Solve Water Insecurity
Nonprofits and humanitarian relief agencies are using location data to tackle some of the most challenging problems in the world today: from housing discrimination, to clim...
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