Mapping with Carto

The fundamentals

@JacopoOttaviani

• Interactive (clickable, zoomable)
• Diverse (there are 6+ types of maps)
• Dynamic (change dataset > change map)
• Replicable (easy to duplicate a map)
• Embeddable (you can include them in your story)

Carto maps are:

Types of map

In the new CARTO interface,

aggregation is the new wizard.

We will learn how to:

• Load and modify your dataset on Carto
• Georeference it (as long as it has a valid location column)
• Play with Carto's interfaces
• Set up info-windows and make categories maps
• Visualise it on a simple interactive (working) map
• Take the embed code to integrate the map into our story

First of all: the dataset

Open Carto and load a dataset: http://bit.ly/entidades-religiosas-espana

First steps with Carto

• Two modalities: data view, map view
• One dataset can generate 1+ visualisations

Infowindow

Wizards/Aggregation

Publication (button: SHARE)

Questions?

Now, feel free to play around

Exercise #2. Make your first map

Delete dataset and visualisation, re-upload it and re-make the whole process from scratch.

Objectives:

1. Make a «category map» showing the religious entities in Spain. 
2. Select the right category column
3. Play with colours, marker size and stroke, filters
4. Configure the info-windows (exclude data you don't want to show to the final user)
5. Publish the map and get the embed code