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Mapping the life of Eric the seagull
Earlier this week we saw this amazing blog post from LifeWatch, where they map and analyze the life of a seagull. The blog post comes out of a project that tracks, in real-...
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Scalable election mapping done right
Last weekend there were elections in Germany, and that means a lot of mapping! Maps are a fundamental tool to explain voting results, differences between regions, possible ...
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GitHub, GeoJSON and CartoDB
We were very excited earlier this spring by the announcement that GitHub would be including interactive maps for small GeoJSON files stored in your repos. What a cool featu...
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Using CartoDB to tell stories in open data
Today we have a guest blogpost up on the OKCon blog about telling stories with open data. The post talks a bit about our recent work with the PLUTO data. We wrote the post ...
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Connecting HBase / Hadoop to CartoDB to visualize millions of species
In this guest blog, Tim Robertson describes how the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) are building a dynamic density map with 0.5 billion tiles and supporting...
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Come hear the latest from CartoDB in NYC
We have a couple of public presentations coming up that we wanted to let you know about. They are both in the NYC area, but don’t worry, we have OKCon, FOSS4G, NACIS, and S...
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It's FOSS4G time again!
We are happy to be sponsors again for next month’s FOSS4G conference in Nottingham. These is one of our favorite meetings, where many of the people we look up to come toget...
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PLUTO is back!
Sorry, that title was too fun not to use. In reality, we aren’t talking about the rejected non-planet, we are talking about NYC’s latest open data release, the PLUTO datase...
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Dropbox CartoDB integration: A step forward for a full Cloud Mapping environment
We have designed CartoDB from day one to be an entirely cloud based solution for your mapping and data visualization needs. This gives us tremendous flexibility in the ways...
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Long awaited, often requested, legends have arrived!
Almost since the first release of CartoDB a couple years back, we have regularly received requests for easier legends in embedded and shared maps. We understand fully where...
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Visualizing Melbourne’s Urban Forest
Today we are pleased to publish a post from Greg More, founder of OOM Creative. We saw some of the maps being created by Greg and his team for the City of Melbourne and kne...
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