World Water Day: Mapping the spread of dams in the US
World Water Day was celebrated this past Sunday bringing attention to issues around water and sustainable development. Given current water use, the UN predicts the world wi...
AcademyServing raster tiles from Google Cloud Storage to CARTO
With Google Maps Engine (GME) closing down next year, GME users are looking for alternatives. CARTO offers a great solution for mapping vector data, but some users also hav...
NewsBuilding Community with Member Benefits
Fresh from a series of March conferences including FOSS4G, Tapestry, and NICAR, the community team at CartoDB has been working to better support our geo-journalists with ne...
NewsWhitepaper: Dynamic High Performance Web Mapping
Serving up dynamic web maps that render live and changing data can be challenging enough, but what about when those maps are also under extreme load as millions of users ac...
Location IntelligenceNYC, the City That Never Sleeps
In 1905, the New York Times declared New York City, “the noisiest city on Earth.” Little has seemingly changed with hundreds of thousands of noise complaints logged with th...
Cartography & VisualizationAid Reports: better reporting for NGOs,
and better data for everyoneFor folks working in global development – whether in micro-finance or environmental protection or food security – one common challenge is collecting data from a huge range ...
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