CARTO  Reviews - Pros & Cons, Ratings & more

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CARTO is an open-source, cloud based Location Intelligence platform enabling users to gain insight and reach business outcomes by visualizing and analyzing data

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Co creator and promotor

It also helps to communicate effectively the data and the analisis to governments. The good aspect is it has both beginners and advanced users interfaces.

City Planner

I like it because I can embed my beautiful maps everywhere, with many interactive functionalities. Also, the academy is awesome, there are many tutorials on how to build awesome stuff.

Sr Business Consultant

Carto is perhaps the best GIS software in the cloud, because in addition to how easy it is to learn to use, its analytical capacity is great.

The benefits is having an easy, clear, and all on one platform, with a large gain of Time.

Data Reporter

Have enjoyed using Carto for a few years now. Helpful staff and a tool with powerful potential.

I have a very good communication with collaborators with the webmaps, so we gain impact (track  @repubikla #repubikla on twitter).

Communications Manager

Our new mapping tool is well designed with and easy to use, important because our members span a range of technical ability.

Mapping Manager

Ease of Use: As I have limited official training in using mapping software, I appreciated how easy it was to learn how to use CARTO's software.

GIS Specialist

The SQL API is extremely easy to use and opens many possibilities for web-based GIS. The out-of-the box tools for geovisualization are beautiful.

License Partner

Really hard to use when you have no knowledge.

software developer

Credentials system is tricky. How data is stored and managed is confusing and requieres lots of trial/error test.

It has a lack of editing capabilities offered by other desktop GIS software. The number of layers allowed also limits a lot complex cartography.

Analista de bases de datos

The cost of the license is medium, the trial period is very limited, it does not offer proposals aimed at students with few economic resources.

Co-Founder + CEO

It was so easy to set up, an intern did it for us in a few hours. We got all our maps integrated in a short period of time.

I carried out tests in the free version, the loading, data management and final products of the analysis were excellent.

 Carto. excellent tool to manage your maps

It is quite interesting to play with the layers and visualize the different Carto options, it is quite illustration software.

The Best portable GIS

CARTO have been incredibly supportive . Their mapping software enables us to reach new demographics

Best Digital Geospatial Mapping Experience Out There

It is the main platform to centralize data from a citizen mapping open platform (repubikla.org), to manage datasets, make análisis, visualize and communicate assessments and civil monitoring to governments un several Mexican cities. The benefits is having an easy, clear, and all on one platform, with a large gain of Time. 
I have a very good communication with collaborators with the webmaps, so we gain impact (track  @repubikla #repubikla on twitter)
I'm  also learning a lot, through database management and análisis frequent tasks.

I used Cartodb and now Carto for years to support a citizen participatory project on active mobility

Great tool to visualize data

Great addition to our organization

I get more job opportunities, since it's a very innovative product in the GIS enviroment.

Carto gives me the opportunity to make all my maps and databases everywhere.

CARTO has helped us find new ways to visualize spatial data and connect analysis to a broad audience

Make our technical information available on the internet. 

Very  friendly user and with several  possibilities  to categorize information and create nice maps

We use Carto for our land acquisition planning as we are a Land Trust preserving open space.

I've used carto to make several multi-layered maps related to housing for my non-profit.

We made some pretty engaging data maps using this software and government data.

Dependable and flexible way of making creative data maps.

CARTO has enabled me to create several interactive maps to visually display data collected by my org

It was kind of tricky to get it running smoothly, and we needed support for it. Once set, we got great results and exactly what we expected

Powerful tool for map overlaying

Interactive web maps to present our efforts on getting rid of explosive remnants of war.

Powerful and easy to use geospatial web platform

Thank you Carto, Thank you executive

Carto makes web based GIS and interactive web mapping a breeze

Looked into Carto several months ago to service some of our mapping needs. 

Great, but very pricey

Made great maps easily. I was able to merge different datasets (shapefile and population data)

Great Cloud software for digital mapping

The software helped us teach young Nigerians easily about the basics of use of Location Intelligence 

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