Visualizing the spread of current fires with CARTO VL
Using synced data streams and CARTO VL, this map shows active fire perimeters and their growth since the beginning of July.
Cartography & Visualization
Beyond the Shapefile with File Geodatabase and GeoPackage
Anyone who has programmed geospatial software has eventually come to a conclusion about data formats: there is only one truly de facto standard for geospatial data, the sha...
Core Tech
Announcing CARTO.js v4.1
It’s been three months since CARTO.js v4 reached the stable release state. Since then, we’ve been receiving very good feedback and researching what our customers are using ...
Core Tech
Introducing CARTO VL - Vector Technology for Location Intelligence
The future of location intelligence relies on systems capable of analyzing and visualizing vast amounts of data that respond quickly to user interactions and queries. Vecto...
Core Tech
CARTO in QGIS using OGR
You can use OGR to move data into and out of CARTO. And you can use QGIS to view and edit layers supported by OGR. So it would stand to reason that you should be able to us...
Core Tech
A SQL approach to graph coloring applied to maps
At CARTO we challenge ourselves to use our platform as our users do. For us, this serves several purposes:
Cartography & Visualization
Airship: A New Front-End Library for Location Intelligence Apps
One of several exciting announcements coming out of CARTO Locations Madrid was the launch of Airship, CARTO’s new front-end library for Location Intelligence apps. Airship,...
Core Tech
Celebrate Earth Day with Resource Watch
Modern connectivity has produced a new way of understanding spatial relations, often transcending administrative boundaries in favor of functional geographies. And while ou...
App Development
Patching Plain PostgreSQL for Parallel PostGIS Plans
CARTO users want to see maps drawn quickly, and drawing maps quickly means rendering every geometry in a table to an output format. By deploying the latest version of Postg...
Core Tech
Visualizing the Olympics: Top Maps and Data Visualizations from Pyeongchang
On Friday, February 9th, the 2018 Winter Olympic Games kicked off in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Featuring athletes from 92 countries around the world, this Winter Games prov...
App Development
CARTO's Use of Foreign Data Wrappers
PostgreSQL is packed full of under-appreciated features (pg_trgm, full-text search, logical replication, ranges, to name a few) but I’d like to highlight one feature tha...
Core Tech
CARTO Core Team and 5x
CARTO is open source, and is built on core open source components, but historically most of the code we have written has been in the “CARTO” parts, and we have used the cor...
Core Tech
