CARTO
An open platform for location intelligence, data visualization, and building geospatial applications.
What is CARTO?
CARTO is an open platform for location intelligence and data visualization that helps organizations discover and predict insights from geospatial data. It enables users to upload, visualize, analyze, and share location data through interactive maps and applications. The platform solves the problem of making complex geospatial data accessible and actionable for decision-making.
Organizations, data analysts, and developers who need to work with location data for operational optimization, strategic planning, or building geospatial applications.
Developers choose CARTO for its powerful yet intuitive toolset that combines drag-and-drop analysis with embeddable APIs, all available as an open platform that can be self-hosted or used as a hosted service.
Overview
CARTO is an open, powerful, and intuitive platform for discovering and predicting insights from location data. It empowers organizations to optimize decisions through maps, spatial analysis, and embeddable applications.
Key Features
- Data Upload & Management — Upload geospatial data (Shapefiles, GeoJSON, etc.) via web forms and manage public or private datasets.
- Interactive Visualization — Visualize data in datasets or on maps with customizable styles using CartoCSS.
- Spatial Analysis — Perform analysis and search data using SQL queries directly within the platform.
- API Access — Access and integrate data using the CARTO APIs for custom application development.
- Embeddable Platform — Use CARTO Engine to embed location intelligence into web and mobile applications.
- Drag-and-Drop Builder — Leverage CARTO Builder for intuitive, no-code map creation and analysis.
Philosophy
CARTO is built to make it easier for people to tell stories with location data by providing flexible and intuitive tools for creating maps and geospatial applications.
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