Unlimited map views start today!
Over recent years, mapping services have been busy counting and charging for map views. We believe that charging for map views is actually penalizing users for doing great things with their work. In...
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Welcome Vanessa Hamer
Say hello to our new Operations and Marketplace Director at the NYC office Vanessa Hamer!Vanessa is a southern charmer from North Carolina with an itch for travel and adventure. Her interest in...
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CartoDB at the World Parks Conference
Mapping has always been a tool for studying environmental change and enabling protection on all levels. Here at CartoDB, we want to share our commitment to IUCN’s efforts to protecting and conserving...
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Remembering The Berlin Wall Interactive Story Map!
November 9th was the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, and to commemorate the anniversary of this monumental event, we have created a beautiful interactive map story using our easy to...
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Welcome Logan Winston
A big howdy to Logan Winston, our new Account Manager based in New York City!Logan’s interest in mapping goes way back: when he was growing up his home had a number of antique maps. But don’t let his...
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EcoHack World @ CartoDB: November 16th
Creating visualizations to help save the planet.Here at CartoDB, we take pride in doing our part to make the planet a better place. Growing environmental issues need our attention, and as part of...
View ArticleInspiring solutions: Ecohack World @ CartoDB (Part II)
Leveraging Tech to Raise Conservation Awareness: 12 hours later.Interested Citizens and CartoDB Team EcoHack Conservation: Map Travel Behaviors of Seals, Porpoises, Turtles, and Dolphins.Today started...
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Educator's Night at CartoDB
Nothing feels better than when someone tells us they are using CartoDB in the classroom. That’s why we have worked hard to make teaching with CartoDB easier and more intuitive by creating educational...
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New Academy Course: SQL and PostGIS in CartoDB
Happy GIS Day! To celebrate, CartoDB is initiating a new course on SQL and PostGIS.Lesson One of SQL and PostGIS in CartoDB is now live at CartoDB Academy! There you are introduced to basic SQL and...
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CartoDB announces its visualization solutions for Smart Cities
These past few days the Smart Cities Expo was taking place in Barcelona. CartoDB was at the CitiSense Conference and also presenting its mapping platform for Smart Cities Dashboards, with New York City...
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New Map Series: Less Is More
In the big, complex world of mapping data, it’s often easy to forget the significant impact that simple and elegant visualizations can have. For this reason, we are proud to announce our new map series...
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Why we use Markdown for almost everything
If you’re following our repositories or you are using Odyssey.js you will have discovered that we’ve been using markdown a lot during the last few months.The Markdown language was created in 2004 by...
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Welcome Santi
We are happy to announce Santi Saez is joining CartoDB team. He is going to try to automate everything inside the CartoDB engines. Santi is crazy about automating stuff. He already left his mark in...
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Introducing CartoDB Startup Grants
Like many of you know, building a startup is hard work. The CartoDB team is a product of this energy. Growing from a group of programmer friends with a desire to build technology for better...
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Using NYPL MapWarper maps inside CartoDB
Geospatial data lovers know that proximity has its perks- especially in a major city like New York. We recently spent a few minutes browsing through the work of New York Public Library’s Map Division...
View ArticleWanted: Geo Programmer Intern to Aid in Mars Mission
Wow. CartoDB is going to Mars? Well, kind of. We’re looking for an extra special intern that will help the European Space Agency search for a martian landing spot and communicate it to the public,...
View ArticleIntroducing Positron and Dark Matter basemaps from CartoDB
There doesn’t seem to be a day that goes by anymore without us seeing some far out data visualization using CartoDB. From modeling the Alcatraz escape routes to mapping the Starwars Galaxy our users...
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Center of Points in Geometric Coordinates
Let’s imagine the following scenario…There are five geostationary satellites around the earth and you need your map to automatically pan to the center of their locations to know the rough region of...
View ArticleEducator's Night Recap
Fall semester is coming to a close and with that thousands of incredible educators get to wrap up their courses and start planning for the next ones. We are really proud that CartoDB has been a part of...
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Map of the Week: CartoDB goes to the Galaxy, Far Far Away
In exactly one year from today, the force will re-awaken with Star Wars: Episode VII. Until then, get caught up on humanity’s favorite space saga with this comprehenisive map of the Star Wars...
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