CARTO is a cloud-native Location Intelligence platform designed to help government agencies analyze data for improved decision-making regarding resources, infrastructure, and citizen services. With access to extensive datasets and compatibility with major cloud data warehouses, CARTO enhances urban planning, mobility initiatives, and climate resilience efforts. This solution enables cities to utilize spatial analysis to optimize transportation systems, ensure equitable access to services, and develop smarter, data-driven solutions for challenges such as waste management and energy consumption.

Spatial Analytics with Our Cloud-Native Platform

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Advance your spatial analysis with our cloud-native platform, turning location data into real business outcomes. Data scientists, developers and analysts solve spatial problems using our location intelligence platform, enriching their data and performing spatial analysis at scale to understand where and why things happen, optimize business processes and predict future outcomes.

Benefits:

  • Integrate with the leading cloud data platforms and analytics tools, including Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and Databricks. Eliminate ETL complexity and any scalability limits
  • Enrich your data with access to more than 12,000 public and premium geospatial datasets from the Data Observatory
  • Publish, embed and share your insights effortlessly, either publicly on the web or protected by a password, fostering collaboration and informed decision-making across organizations
  • Streamline the development process and enable the creation of powerful spatial apps with a complete set of development libraries and APIs
  • With CARTO Self-Hosted you can enjoy the same powerful and versatile experience from the cloud, including building maps, visualizing and analyzing spatial data at scale and developing high-performing applications—but deployed in your own controlled environment

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Single Interface to Access All Components of the CARTO Platform

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The CARTO Workspace is the central control center for users, offering a comprehensive overview and easy access to all components of the CARTO platform. Upon logging in, users are greeted with a customizable homepage providing quick links to essential actions, such as connecting data warehouses, importing data and exploring new features.

Benefits:

  • Efficiently manage connections to data warehouses, explore data, develop spatial applications and run visualizations and spatial analysis
  • Enhanced onboarding experience and guides to familiarize faster with CARTO
  • Get access to recent maps, workflows and datasets to quickly resume your work without searching through extensive lists or menus

 

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CARTO Workflows, the No-Code Approach for Geospatial Analysis

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CARTO Workflows allows users to orchestrate multi-step analyses effortlessly, without writing any code. Design, run and share analysis flows using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. All the scalability benefits of cloud-native analysis, without requiring specialist SQL knowledge.

Benefits:

  • CARTO Workflows simplifies the process of automating data preparation and analysis pipelines with its no-code workflow design tool
  • Build and execute efficient and scalable cloud-native analysis steps using a visual drag-and-drop interface, enhancing productivity and reducing manual effort
  • Save time and run cost-effective geospatial analysis with spatial indexes (H3, Quadbin, S2) for large-scale data processing, aggregation and analytics
  • Workflows are fully integrated with Builder and the Data Observatory making it possible to enrich proprietary data with over 12,000 datasets from the Spatial Data Catalog

 

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Data Enrichment with the Data Observatory

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The Data Observatory is a comprehensive repository of over 12,000 public and premium datasets curated to enrich spatial data analysis. With a wide range of categories including financial indicators, human mobility patterns, demographic insights, environmental data and more, the Spatial Data Catalog ensures access to high-quality location data effortlessly.

Benefits:

  • Browse through the catalog to discover datasets relevant to your specific use cases, streamlining the process of gathering and cleaning data for analysis
  • Easily explore different categories to find datasets that align with your analysis requirements, saving time on data sourcing and evaluation
  • With standardized formats and support for common geographies, the Spatial Data Catalog simplifies the process of enriching internal data
  • Integrate third-party location data reducing the complexities associated with dealing with different data formats and geospatial support systems

 

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CARTO for Geospatial App Development

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CARTO for Developers makes it possible to create robust spatial applications with limitless scalability and performance. Access cloud-native technologies, including APIs, frameworks and visualization libraries like deck.gl for rapid development and seamless integration of quality basemaps, ensuring clarity and precision in data visualization.

Benefits:

  • Develop powerful map-centric applications within your cloud data architecture
  • Accelerate application development, reduce time-to-market and eliminate the need for complex backend APIs or ETL processes, ultimately saving time and costs
  • Distribute applications publicly or deploy secure enterprise-grade access controls, ensuring compliance with security standards and regulatory requirements
  • With CARTO Self-Hosted, developers can enjoy the same versatile development experience in their controlled environment, enhancing security and customization options

 

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100+ Advanced Spatial Functions with the Analytics Toolbox

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Available for Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks and PostgreSQL, the Analytics Toolbox enhances the geospatial capabilities of each data warehouse, enabling users to unlock advanced spatial insights seamlessly. Leveraging SQL User-Defined Functions (UDFs) and Stored Procedures, the Analytics Toolbox operates natively within each data warehouse, taking advantage of their computational power and scalability while avoiding the need for time-consuming ETL processes.

Benefits:

  • By operating natively within the cloud data warehouses, the Analytics Toolbox seamlessly integrates with existing data infrastructure, eliminating the need for data movement or complex ETL processes
  • Leverage the computational power and scalability of your data warehouse platform, ensuring efficient and scalable spatial analytics workflows without compromising performance
  • Whether through CARTO Builder, SQL Notebooks, or directly within the console of your cloud data warehouse platform, you have flexible options to access the Analytics Toolbox

 

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