Getting started with CARTO

CARTO is the only cloud-first spatial platform built for accelerated, modern GIS. It runs natively on top of your cloud data warehouse platform (e.g. Google BigQuery, Snowflake, AWS Redshift, etc.), providing easy access to highly scalable spatial analysis and visualization capabilities in the cloud — be it for analytics, app development, data engineering, and more.

What is CARTO?

An introduction to our cloud-native platform benefits and its different components.

Quickstart guides

Step-by-step guides to build your first maps, workflows, and applications.

CARTO Academy

Access detailed tutorials, videos and templates to learn more about geospatial analytics and to become a proficient user of the CARTO platform.

CARTO Platform

CARTO unlocks the power of spatial analysis in the cloud, extending the visualization, analysis and development capabilities of the leading cloud data warehouse platforms, such as Google BigQuery, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift.

Find out how to get the most out of our Location Intelligence platform with our product documentation:

CARTO User Manual

How to create connections to your data warehouse, build interactive maps and analytical workflows, subscribe to external data, and more.

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions about the CARTO platform and its components.

What's New

Learn about the latest features, improvements and bug fixes in our product.

CARTO Self-hosted

Deploy CARTO on your own infrastructure. Learn about recommended architecture, requirements, and follow installation guides to get started.

Data and Analysis

Analytics Toolbox for BigQuery

Unlock Spatial Analytics on your BigQuery.

Analytics Toolbox for Snowflake

Unlock Spatial Analytics on your Snowflake.

Analytics Toolbox for Redshift

Unlock Spatial Analytics on your Redshift.

Analytics Toolbox for Databricks (Beta)

Unlock Spatial Analytics on your Databricks.

Analytics Toolbox for PostgreSQL

Unlock Spatial Analytics on your PostgreSQL.

Data Observatory

Gain access to thousands of public and premium spatial datasets, and save time on gathering, cleaning, and analyzing data.

CARTO + Python

A set of Python packages to allow data scientists to work with CARTO from Python notebooks.

Development tools

CARTO + deck.gl

Build large-scale geospatial apps using deck.gl, the WebGPU-based framework for data visualization.

CARTO for React

Build compelling spatial apps using CARTO, React and deck.gl.

CARTO + Google Maps

Integrate CARTO layers with Google Maps API and basemaps.

APIs

CARTO API

The CARTO API allows you to interact with your data in an external data warehouse to create performant cloud-native geospatial solutions.

Get Help

Contact Support

Get in touch with our team of first-class geospatial specialists.

Join our community of users in Slack

Our community of users is a great place to ask questions and get help from CARTO experts.

All previous libraries and components

Including API v2, CARTO.js, CartoCSS, Torque.js, CARTOframes and others.