Isolines
High-quality & reliable isoline maps to ensure your spatial analysis guides business decisions in the right direction.
What is an isoline map?
An isoline map is a way of presenting numerical data cartographically, helping readers to recognize geographical patterns and relationships. Isolines are lines drawn on maps connecting data points of the same value. Isolines should have equal intervals between them numerically, and if shaded in a choropleth manner, the map can be known as an isopleth map.
How can I create isoline maps?
Using CARTO, you can create time and distance isolines for forwards and reverse measurements of distance (with our Data Services API). This can help your organization understand how long it takes to reach certain locations by walking, cycling or driving, enabling data-driven decision making in sectors such as Retail, Real Estate or Cities and Government. Powered by our partners, TomTom, Mapbox and HERE, we provide up-to-date and reliable data as part of our platform.
What are the most common uses of isoline maps?
A wide range of industries rely on isoline maps to show key datasets relating to their business problems. Whether you are trying to understand trade areas, outdoor media audiences, mobility patterns, sea surface temperatures or biodiversity trends - being able to seamlessly include isolines in your analysis through our platform can save your team time and resources, without needing to evaluate multiple providers.
Why use CARTO?
Save time on evaluation
We regularly vet location-based data providers & forge partnerships to save our users time and resources, giving you more time to spend on your analysis.
Faster access to data
You don’t need to be a GIS expert to include isolines in your analysis. They can be created with a short and simple function in the SQL panel.
High-quality data assured
Through our rigorous evaluation processes, we ensure the best isolines are available so that your analysis is accurate.
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