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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

Plus Codes by Google mentions (8)

• A Critical Analysis of the What3Words Geocoding Algorithm

  For more on this, and why I think we shouldn't advocate for W3W, see: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-words/ for theoretical reasons and https://w3w.me.ss/ for some practical examples. https://plus.codes seems much better, but sadly it uses numbers instead of words, which are much harder for humans to remember ( https://xkcd.com/936/ ), so I don't think it will ever catch on. That's... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Houses having names instead of numbers.

  I wish https://plus.codes/ took off. The benefit compared to what 3 words is that you can use the closest city to give directions and cells next to each other share the bigger cell name. Source: over 1 year ago

• SpaceX is live with T-Mobile announcement

  And an additional shoutout for https://plus.codes/ from Google. Source: over 1 year ago

• r/Starlink Questions Thread - March 2022

  New to this so sorry if this is stupid. I've been trying to use https://plus.codes to try to check an address for availability at starlink. Whatever code I put in, it simply tells me afterwards "please enter an address or a plus code". That website seems to give me either a shorter or a longer plus code. Neither of them seems to make the starlink website happy. When I try putting in the address, it doesn't like... Source: about 2 years ago

• Those of you who won the "get in on another cell" game- how did you systematically go about testing plus codes?

  Https://plus.codes/ is really helpful it allows you to select areas by plus code so you can do fine incrementing once you locate an active cell to locate it's edge. Source: over 2 years ago