Map Club’s most recent meeting was a change of pace from the usual self-paced rhythm of weekly sessions. In the first of three workshops occurring throughout this semester, we walked through a guided introduction to CARTO. CARTO (formerly CartoDB) is a unified web mapping and visualization engine that facilitates the creation of interactive maps. This workshop covered the process of downloading data, importing data into CARTO, filtering and […]
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Map Club, Session 01 — Exploring CARTO & CARTO.js
Map Club kicked off its first summer session with a dive into CARTO.js, a unified JavaScript library that interacts with the CARTO (formerly CartoDB) web mapping and visualization engine. After setting up CARTO accounts and local testing servers, attendees prepared datasets for upload to the CARTO interface, explored different geovisualization methods provided by the platform, and experimented with interactive capabilities offered by the CARTO.js library. Next […]