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5 Questions with Paul Ramsey
It only takes a little bit of time working in the geospatial industry before you hear the name, Paul Ramsey. His work on PostGIS and helping to cultivate an amazing community around the open source...
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Can you hear me now? Talking TeleMaps at the Mobile World Congress
We’re gearing up for the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the conference agenda highlights the blistering pace of growth and innovation in mobile communications. Mobile healthcare? Remote...
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Global Forest Watch - Only you can prevent closed data
Global Forest Watch and Vizzuality have come together to make visualizing ecological data in maps that much more useful and effective. CartoDB is excited to take part in GFW’s mission in forest...
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Building A Culture Of Innovation
Innovation is never easy. It takes time, commitment and dedication. Our team here at CartoDB is no stranger to the challenges that come along with new and forward thinking ideas. How do technological...
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Welcome Brittany
We’re excited to introduce our latest addition to our NYC team, Brittany Micek! Brittany is going to be working in the Community team as a Content Writer.She hails from Chula Vista, California, a small...
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Introducing CartoDB Heat Maps
Today, we’re releasing an all-new type of heat map that brings the classic thematic map to CartoDB users with a modern twist.CartoDB Heat Maps leverage the power of Torque to transfer very large...
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Announcing GME2Cartodb.com - Data Migration Tool
Recently, we announced the availability of CartoDB on Google Cloud Platform. Our intention is to provide a great resource for those projects making use of the Google Maps API and help former Google...
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Save humanity and do other things with FME and CartoDB
FME, a product of CartoDB partner Safe Software, is the most flexible glue around for connecting two applications via their spatial data. And FME now supports CartoDB. Supporting more than 325 file...
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Mapentines: Love is Like a Stack of Static Maps
This week marks a winter slurry of holiday occasions, including Lincoln’s Birthday (Wednesday), World Radio Day/Friday the 13th (Friday), Valentines Day (Saturday!), and Halfprice-Chocolate Day (aka,...
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Map of the Week: Mob-Media: Lynching and the Press
This past week, the NYTimes posted an extended piece on mapping county-level lynching data, a topic of interest to some of our academic users and in particularly, Michael Weaver. Michael is a Ph.D...
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Fedor Baart: The Science of Escape from Alcatraz
With this third installment of our Developer Interview series, we welcome Fedor Baart to join the discussion about how scientists and developers using CartoDB for research and geospatial...
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Introducing CartoDB static maps
If you missed our Valentine’s Day blog post you may have also missed that CartoDB now has the ability to generate static images of dynamic maps from your accounts. Now we’ve added the capability...
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New plugin using CartoDB maps in Cesium
Putting beautiful and dynamic maps onto a 3D globe has never been easier. Using a little JavaScript, you can now put your favorite CartoDB visualization on a 3D globe. The awesome open source...
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CartoDB at the MWC - The Next Generation Mapping platform will be Open Source
From March 2-5, we will be at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona showcasing our latest developments in geospatial platforms and other mapping technologies. The CartoDB team will be ready to engage...
View ArticleHappy World Radio Day!
World Radio Day was celebrated around the world last week in acknowledgment of the impact and importance of radio. We’re late to the party, but couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate the...
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Beyond Potholes: Data you can collect with Fulcrum
Fulcrum, which allows you to collect data in a distributed way on mobile devices, is popular among experts in disaster recovery, environmental management, real estate, and other fields where quick,...
View ArticleGeobeers at Mobile World Congress
The Geobeers will be taking the Mobile World Congress by storm on Wednesday 4th at 8 PM! A few mapping companies will be at Mobile World Congress and we thought it would be a great idea to get together...
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Music Map Mashup
When Sade sang in ‘Smooth Operator’ – “Coast to coast, LA to Chicago” – she obviously hadn’t consulted a map.For starters, L.A. - Los Angeles (not to be confused by the abbreviation of Louisiana, a...
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CartoDB + Plotly + IPython Notebooks
CartoDB, Plotly, and IPython notebooks work beautifully together. The plot above was made on Plotly from data imported into an IPython notebook using the CartoDB SQL API.Plotly is a cloud-based...
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We are buying pizza for a world... of map makers
Take a look at the nice little post over on Maptime blog. Basically, we get nice tweets from Maptime members around the world pretty much every week. So we wanted to say thanks. And maybe the global...
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