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CARTO empowers any organization and individual to discover and predict key insights through location data. With CARTO’s intuitive location intelligence platform anyone can build self-service location based apps that help optimize operational performance, strategic investments, and everyday decisions.

CARTO empowers any organization and individual to discover and predict key insights through location data. With CARTO’s intuitive location intelligence platform anyone can build self-service location based apps that help optimize operational performance, strategic investments, and everyday decisions. Together, CARTO Builder—a drag and drop analysis tool, and CARTO Engine — a fully embeddable platform for web and mobile apps, empower your organization to perform scalable analysis and uncover the key insights behind your location data.

For more information about CARTO, see carto.com

It was known as CartoDB until July 2016.

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CartoDB opensource vs paid one?

What's the difference between open source CartoDB version vs the paid one? this one the open source: https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb and this one the "paid" version: https://carto.com/ i don't understand the advantage of the paid version beside i…
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How do I password protect a CartoDB Visualization

We have some data and a visualization that we would like to make available to a small user community. How do I password protect a CartoDB visualization without making it public.
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How do I make a public download page for my CartoDB table?

I have some CartoDB data that I'd like to make available to people as shapefile, geojson and csv. I just came across http://opensandiego.cartodb.com/tables/5037/public/map which has a great map preview, with downloads in different format and a cool…
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Am I misunderstanding "Equal Interval"?

After reading Choropleth Mapping Using Quantile Method in CartoDB I decided that it was time for me to understand CartoDB's quantification methods. As I understand it, quantiles should contain an equal number of rows, equal intervals should place…
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Can I have more than 4 layers on my map in Cartodb?

I know Cartodb has the layer feature where you can create four different layers within one map, but is there a way to create more? I want my viewers to be able to choose between more than four layers in order to select which points they want to…
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Getting distance from point to nearest line string

I am trying to use st_distance to find the nearest line string to a point. I have two tables in cartodb one is a table of points and the other table is poly lines. To see if I had the logic right I did a st_distance query on the points table from a…
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cartodb SQL API security?

I am studying CartoDB, and am wondering: To what extent is CartoDB SQL API secure? From their description about authentication, you can submit entire SQL statements in the URL by appending the api_key to it as…
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Text codes keep coming in as numbers, stripping out leading zeros

I'm trying to merge census tract data with a census tract shapefile in CartoDB. Despite saving the tract ID codes as text/string in both .csv and .xlsx (including reimporting the .csv as text into Excel and resaving) formats, CartoDB keeps…
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Is it possible to vary the sql query based on Zoom level?

I am trying to create a map where I have added a layer with place names. There are thousands of those in the database, and I am looking for a way to show only the most important ones on the lower zoom levels. The CartoDB introduction has a good…
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When we create a CartoDB table using SQL, is there a way to register it with the tables dashboard?

I have been able to create tables that conform to the CartoDB style by the following method: Create empty table [table name], no columns via SQL API SELECT CDB_Cartodbyfy([table name]) via SQL API Insert [table name] and current time into…
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Overwrite a table in CartoDB

I need to overwrite a table in CartoDB using the Import API, but the system instead of overwriting the table, it creates another one with the same name and attaches an id auto-generated. For instance: The table stored in CartoDB is named…
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cartodb visualization ownership transfer

I have a visualization created in my cartodb personal account. Can I transfer this viz to my company's enterprise account without recreating it there?
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Why aren't the info windows showing up on my cartodb layers?

I made a cartodb map with 2 layers. The layers draw from the same table but I use filters to display some of the data in one layer and some of the data in another. Without the layers my info windows were working and now they're not. I'm not sure…
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CartoDB: Question about map loading indicator

We are using the CartoDB.js API to create our visualizations at runtime using a pre-exsiting Google map. Everything seems to be working fine so far, except that we would like to show some sort of visual loading indicator while the cartodb layer…
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POST to the CartoDB imports API from Google AppEngine / Python

Creating tables using the CartoDB SQL api is a known bug/missing feature, CREATE TABLE queries sent via the SQL API create shadow tables that never show up in the dashboard. One potential way around this is using the new imports api to post a small…
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