Carto VS MapStyle

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Carto mentions (7)

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Carto.com — Create maps and geospatial APIs from your and public data. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• OC: A guide to easily accessing OSM data with Google BigQuery

  I've written a guide to how to do this over at carto.com - this also includes a general guide to OSM including benefits and limitations, use cases and schema. Source: over 1 year ago

• IP Visualizer - Redis Hackathon submission

  Location data is provided by MaxMind The Map used is provided by Carto. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Site to display thematic maps?

  I have also used carto.com and ArcGIS Online to create interactive maps but most of my projects include static maps and I can not necessarily remake those on these sites as there are more complicated/don't need to be interactive. Source: over 2 years ago

• Tips and guides for setting up a cloud-based GIS database with a web map component for someone with very limited IT background

  I think CARTO would be perfect for this. It's basically just PostGIS in the cloud with a great interface. Source: over 2 years ago

MapStyle mentions (7)

• Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API

  I will say I'm for this setup, but what you're saying is not exactly true. You can customize what is shown with the styling wizard, and completely remove types of markers from maps you create. https://mapstyle.withgoogle.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• How to change custom map style

  I have a custom map that I use for a game, and I would like to change it's style to a dark one, like the one we can find on https://mapstyle.withgoogle.com/, or on https://console.cloud.google.com/. However, when trying to edit my map, I only have 6 styling options (default, satellite, landmass, etc...), none of those being dark. Is there any way I could add a dark style? Maybe with the "JSON" you can generate... Source: about 1 year ago

• Complete Map of the Known World, AR 101 (Stand Still, Stay Silent)

  To that end, I took screenshots using Google's Map Style App. Really handy tool for getting a good sense of scale without having to deal with city names and other labels. I put those into GIMP as a base layer and edited the whole thing from there. It ended up being a way bigger project than I anticipated! I worked at it on and off for a couple months and finalized it with two versions of the map: the one you see... Source: over 1 year ago

• Finished my dad's Christmas present just in time

  I start by styling google maps to get the extra garbage out of there. Then I screen capture it and I finesse it with Photoshop or GIMP (free) to get the pics in a usable state for the laser cutter. Then I used LightBurn to actually make the cuts and etches. Source: over 1 year ago

• costanera course (editing explained below)

  To make this map I first used styling wizard and took a screenshot of the city, then opened inkscape to vectorise the image (to get vector quality). Source: over 1 year ago