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PostGIS core committer Sandro Santilli joins CartoDB
We’re really happy to announce the arrival of >Sandro Santilli</a>, one of the core committers of PostGIS, to the CartoDB team.
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Redistricting maps from the Center for Urban Research
In United States there is quite a discussion about redrawing legislative district lines. The Center for Urban Research in New York together with The New York World have dev...
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Financial Secrecy Index screencast
Here there is a new screencast from @jatorre on how to load, georeference and visualize the data from the Financial Secrecy Index. It makes for a good demo of the new Thema...
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Homicides and Trafficking Routes visualization
Today we get the surprise of a really interesting visualization developed using CartoDB. Diego Valle has done this powerful visualization about the drug war in Mexico.
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Migrating from SimpleGeo Storage to CartoDB
Yesterday it was announce that SimpleGeo, now bought by Urban Airship, will stop their operations. They have published a document explaining how to migrate to some alternat...
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Point clustering using CartoDB
This week we wrote a few new examples in the CartoDB Gallery. One of the examples was to show off a feature that allows you to set styles through the URL. Until recently, s...
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ST_GeomFromGeoJSON arriving to PostGIS
We, web developers, love JSON, so having a way to use GeoJSON on PostGIS it is kind of a no brainer. Well, thanks to Kashif Rasul, OpenGeo and a bit of financial help from ...
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DontFlush.me: Help keep your shit out of the harbor during storms
In The last 2 weeks a lot of new applications have been developed at #ecohacknyc, #nycbigapps and #sciencehackday using CartoDB, pretty excited. This demonstrates the power...
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Indexed nearest neighbour search coming to CartoDB
Take a sneak peek at some upcoming functionality to CartoDB: Indexed nearest neighbour search. Thanks to CartoDB investment in PostGIS 2.0, you can now find the nearest N t...
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