Spatial Analytics in 2026: What's Changing?

Spatial Analytics in 2026: What's Changing?

Explore how AI, cloud-native tools, and evolving skills are reshaping spatial analytics in 2026, based on insights from 200+ geospatial experts.

Spatial Analytics

In your cloud

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CARTO AI Agents now integrated with Google AI Studio & Vertex AI

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Agentic GIS now integrated with Snowflake Cortex AI

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CARTO now integrated with Databricks Spatial SQL & Mosaic AI

Spatial Analysis: Private Equity's Secret Weapon

Spatial Analysis: Private Equity's Secret Weapon

Which types of funds invest in spatial analysis? How do they use location data in screening & portfolio management? We discuss the role of Data Science.

Spatial Data Science
Mapping Your Salesforce Data: CARTO in Einstein Analytics

Mapping Your Salesforce Data: CARTO in Einstein Analytics

CARTO's Salesforce Lightning app component works seamlessly with Salesforce, integrating complete mapping capabilities with Einstein Analytics Dashboards

Cartography & Visualization
PostGIS Day: A future, post GIS

PostGIS Day: A future, post GIS

Is GIS dead? No, but it is undergoing a transformation - and we're excited to see how spatial analysis can continue to change our world.

Spatial Data Science
Data Events to Enjoy - Winter 2019

Data Events to Enjoy - Winter 2019

Enjoy this list of several interesting events for data scientists, analysts, developers, academics, and other spatial professionals

Events
Spatial Analysis for Tourism in Partnership with Andorra

Spatial Analysis for Tourism in Partnership with Andorra

CARTO is partnering with Andorra's ACTUA program and MIT to deliver deeper insights on the country's burgeoning tourism industry

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Equal Earth Projection in CARTO!

Equal Earth Projection in CARTO!

Developed in 2018, the popular Equal Earth Projection is now available to users in CARTO!

Cartography & Visualization
CARTO joins The Urban Computing Foundation Technical Advisory Committee

CARTO joins The Urban Computing Foundation Technical Advisory Committee

Today we are very excited to announce that CARTO's Javier de la Torre, our Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, is joining the Urban Computing Foundation (UCF) Technical Advisory Committee

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New spatial functions in BigQuery, starting with Uber H3-js

New spatial functions in BigQuery, starting with Uber H3-js

CARTO is working very closely with the Google BigQuery team, bringing in new spatial functions and supporting the creation of a next generation spatial data infrastructure stack.

Cloud Native
PostGIS 3.0.0 Just Released

PostGIS 3.0.0 Just Released

With a lot of enhancements, bug fixes, and several new features, the release of PostGIS 3.0.0 brings improved speed and performance to CARTO users

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CARTO's Data Observatory 2.0, now powered by Google BigQuery

CARTO's Data Observatory 2.0, now powered by Google BigQuery

By working with Google BigQuery, the Data Observatory is transforming into the most cost effective and advanced spatial data infrastructure.

Spatial Data
Spatial Data Simplified: Introducing Data Observatory 2.0

Spatial Data Simplified: Introducing Data Observatory 2.0

We’re introducing Data Observatory 2.0, the latest version of our spatial data repository that will make spatial data more accessible and faster to manipulate for Data Scientists and Analysts across the globe.

Spatial Data
CARTO and SafeGraph Team Up for Behavior Pattern Insights

CARTO and SafeGraph Team Up for Behavior Pattern Insights

Aggregated visit pattern data, like SafeGraph's, has implications for investment decision making, public health, environmental efforts, and more

Spatial Data

Academy

Spatial Analytics in 2026: What's Changing?

Explore how AI, cloud-native tools, and evolving skills are reshaping spatial analytics in 2026, based on insights from 200+ geospatial experts.

Spatial Analytics

CARTO CLI: Automated CARTO management built for AI Agents

Meet the CARTO CLI: a command-line interface that unifies human expertise, automated pipelines & AI agents into one geospatial operating model.

Core Tech

CARTO AI Agents now integrated with Amazon Bedrock

Unlock secure, AI-powered geospatial analysis in your AWS environment. Learn how CARTO's Agentic GIS and Amazon Bedrock integration makes spatial insights accessible to everyone.

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