Spatial Indexes
Save time & run more cost-effective geospatial analysis using H3 spatial indexes, and global grid systems.
Why use Spatial Indexes?
Key benefits of Spatial Indexes
- 01
Efficiency
Analytics are faster and more computationally efficient. - 02
Flexibility
Combine datasets into one layer for ease of comparison and analysis. - 03
Objectivity
Remove bias associated with administrative geographies. - 04
Impact
Visually more impactful and much easier to understand.
Take Spatial Analytics to the next level
Spatial Indexes enable performant location-based analytics for massive spatial data.
Simplify your workflows for faster analysis and better data visualization. Global coverage at flexible resolution levels - ranging from yards to miles.
How are organizations benefiting from Spatial Indexes?
Companies that generate large amounts of location data, such as GPS tracks, telemetry, remote sensing or customer transactions are overcoming both operational and analytical limitations by shifting to a more efficient geospatial analysis approach with Spatial Indexes.
Delivery & Quick Commerce
To evaluate business critical performance indicators such as delivery delays and errors.
Logistics & Fleet Management
To optimize routings, delivery times and better manage fleets.
Telecommunications
To process and analyze massive network performance data volumes and generate unique customer usage insights.
Sustainability & Climate Resilience
To overcome the processing limitations and costs associated with handling and visualizing large raster datasets.
Geomarketing & Advertising
To optimize high volume marketing campaigns by locating customers & prospects, and understanding temporal patterns.
Cloud-native support for Spatial Indexes
CARTO’s Location Intelligence platform unlocks Spatial Indexes on the most popular cloud data warehouses including Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift and Databricks. Eliminate ETL complexity and any limits on data scalability.
Use efficient SQL statements for analysis with Spatial Indexes, harnessing the true power of the cloud data warehouse.
Spatial Indexes across the CARTO platform
Advanced spatial analysis features
Enrich grids with 1000s of spatial variables
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