Overture Maps data now on the cloud: how to use it with CARTO

Overture Maps data now on the cloud: how to use it with CARTO

Announcing Overture Maps data in the cloud! Seamlessly access, analyze, and visualize data on global buildings, POIs, boundaries & more with CARTO!

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Geospatial & AI at the Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025

Cloud Native

Snowflake Summit 2025 - highlights for geospatial

Cloud Native

How Iceberg, GeoParquet & CARTO are reshaping geospatial

Events

Google Cloud Next 2025: Key takeaways for geospatial

Map of the Month: Displacement Alert Map 2.0

Map of the Month: Displacement Alert Map 2.0

Created using CARTO.js and pulling in open data from multiple sources, DAP Map will help in the fight against housing displacement.

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Location Intelligence: The End of GIS As We Know It

Location Intelligence: The End of GIS As We Know It

GIS set the foundation for businesses to begin collecting and visualizing geographic information. But in order to stay competitive, businesses know they need to focus on the intelligence from their location data, not just on the geographic information itself.

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Beyond the Shapefile with File Geodatabase and GeoPackage

Beyond the Shapefile with File Geodatabase and GeoPackage

Core Tech
Could these location-based bus improvements fix NYC transit woes?

Could these location-based bus improvements fix NYC transit woes?

As the subway enters a declared state of emergency, a new coalition is proposing changes based to the NYC bus system based on location data to help solve the city's transit woes.

Use cases
Consulting Presentation Examples that Go Beyond PDF and PPT

Consulting Presentation Examples that Go Beyond PDF and PPT

Learn to deliver consulting presentations in a more engaging format using Location Intelligence tools.

Use cases
PostGIS Performance Profiling

PostGIS Performance Profiling

Core Tech
Changing Neighborhoods: The case of New York City

Changing Neighborhoods: The case of New York City

Citizen-led organizations use geospatial tech and location intelligence to analyze housing markets and demographic changes. Learn about NYC, SF, and Chicago.

Use cases
How Greenpeace is Fighting Big Oil with Data Visualization

How Greenpeace is Fighting Big Oil with Data Visualization

Greenpeace is transforming idea into action by using data visualization to show the concrete danger that petrol poses.

Cartography & Visualization
Introducing CARTO Traffico: A Crowdsourced GPS Data Traffic Management Solution

Introducing CARTO Traffico: A Crowdsourced GPS Data Traffic Management Solution

CARTO Traffico is a traffic management solution for civic engineers and urban planners that integrates crowdsourced GPS data with city specific mobility data sources to help cities adapt to citizens’ changing transportation behavior

Spatial Data
Location Intelligence apps take flight with Airship

Location Intelligence apps take flight with Airship

Learn about our front-end library Airship and the exciting and extensive new offers it provides developers.

App Development
Introducing Voyager: The New CARTO Basemap

Introducing Voyager: The New CARTO Basemap

Learn how our new, mobile-optimized Voyager basemap provides even more insights on your location data in our latest post.

Cartography & Visualization
3 Businesses See More Green After Going Green

3 Businesses See More Green After Going Green

Location intelligence is the key to seeing green this Earth Day. Find out how your business can get green and see more of it too.

Use cases

Academy

Overture Maps data now on the cloud: how to use it with CARTO

Announcing Overture Maps data in the cloud! Seamlessly access, analyze, and visualize data on global buildings, POIs, boundaries & more with CARTO!

Spatial Data

Geospatial & AI at the Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025

Explore the biggest geospatial & AI highlights from Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025, including Agent Bricks & native Spatial SQL.

Cloud Native

Supercharge Your Spatial Models with Google PDFM in CARTO

Integrate Google's PDFM embeddings into CARTO Workflows for enhanced spatial models. This blog shows two use cases on how these embeddings improve predictions.

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