Q2 2025
New features and improvements introduced from April to June 2025
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May 30th, 2025
Improvement CARTO for Developers
Developers have now access to an extended set of tools to bring maps from CARTO Builder into their applications, allowing collaboration with non-developer users who can be in charge of the cartography, or simply, accelerating the styling process of layers. Key points are:
Non-developers can prototype and build as usual.
Developers use fetchMap to retrieve maps from CARTO into their code.
The map properties can then be integrated and customized, to perfectly blend in your application. This includes layers, legend, and interactions (tooltips, popups, hover...).
Works with private and public maps.
Learn more about the improvements to fetchMap in our , or check .
May 29th, 2025
New Accounts
Users with this new role can only see the maps that have been explicitly shared with them, which improves collaboration with external users as it removes the need to make sensitive maps public. As these are authenticated users, Editors can grant or revoke Guest viewer access to any map at any point, while Admins can view a complete audit trail of their activity.
May 26th, 2025
New Workflows and Analytics Toolbox
CARTO now supports computing travel time and distance origin–destination matrices using third-party APIs from TravelTime and TomTom. New functions in the Analytics Toolbox allow users to build routing matrices with full control over input parameters, enabling accurate and optimized travel time analysis.
This capability is also available through a new component in Workflows, providing a low-code way to integrate travel time data into broader spatial processes. A new endpoint in the Location Data Services (LDS) API has been introduced to support this functionality across the Analytics Toolbox and Workflows, ensuring robust and scalable access to routing services.
May 13th, 2025
New Builder
You can now collaborate directly in your Builder maps using Comments. Add notes tied to specific locations, start threaded discussions, and tag teammates to bring everyone into the conversation—right where decisions are made.
Built for collaboration, Comments help reduce back-and-forth, speed up decision-making, and turn your maps into collaborative mapping experiences.
May 12th, 2025
New Workflows
A new component is now available in CARTO Workflows to automate the creation and update of Builder maps. With support for three modes—Create copy, Overwrite, and Update—this component gives users full control over how maps are generated and maintained as part of a workflow.
This functionality allows users to integrate map generation into larger geospatial processes, ensuring that maps stay up to date with the latest analytical results. Whether you're building templated workflows, maintaining a dashboard, or running scheduled processes, this component helps reduce manual steps and ensures consistency across your visual outputs.
April 3rd, 2025
New CARTO for Developers
Developers building custom, scalable geospatial apps with CARTO can now add custom charts and widgets on top of their tileset and raster sources, enriching their application with additional GPU-powered filtering capabilities. These widgets have the same features as all our developer widgets:
Fully-customizable: using flexible data models and your own UI charting library.
Easily sync your widgets with the deck.gl map, and seamlessly use widgets to filter.
Framework-agnostic, with minimal dependencies: built with pure JS and Typescript, it integrates nicely in your own stack (Angular, React, Vue...).
Use cases include land use treemap charts, NDVI average scorecards, or frequency histograms over huge tilesets with millions of points, and everything in between... Get creative!
April 3rd, 2025
Improvement Accounts
Delete and transfer assets in bulk
Filter assets by owner
View detailed asset relationships, such as the Connection used by a Workflow.
We've introduced a new user role, , designed for organizations that want to share maps with external partners, clients or collaborators.
For more information, head to our section on .
The new functions and components are available in and the Analytics Toolbox for , and .
Ready to start? Check our to learn more.
Check the to get started.
Ready to get started? Check the or play with our !
We have introduced a new user role –– capable of viewing and managing all assets (Maps, Workflows and Connections) in the organization, regardless of who owns them or their visibility settings. This new role will help facilitate the administration and governance of large organizations with many users and many assets:
For more information, see our section on the .
