Seoul, South Korea, the world’s most wired and number one ranked tech ready city is hosting one of the largest global gatherings focused on open source geospatial solutions. Next week CartoDB is attending FOSS4G for the second consecutive year.

Ever wonder which kind of map to make? Lesson 1 of our new Intermediate Map Design Map Academy course can help you decide!

CartoDB prides itself on helping empower organizations and people to achieve great things and make the world a better place. Our ever-growing climate and non-profit grants have provided innovative organizations with tools and infrastructure to have meaningful impact from the neighborhood all the way up to the world.

CartoDB began with just a dream and soon, we’ll put miles under our wings (or elephant ears) and cross the United States to experience the power of that vision. Our CEO Javier de la Torre, along with VP of Sales Alon Vernikov and EMEA Sales Director Jaime de Mora, will be attending Dreamforce in San Francisco from September 15-18.

When I saw this tweet from Jorge Arévalo I couldn’t resist.

How to Track NBA Player Movements in Python http://t.co/sZQG48oGfQ

— Jorge Arévalo (@jorgeas80) August 28, 2015

The blog post linked in Jorge’s tweet nicely explains how to process NBA statistics data in order to analyse it and generate some charts of different metrics. When I was reading the blog post, I immediately saw coordinates and time and thought that it would be cool to try visualizing it with Torque, our own temporal mapping library.

You’ve surely noticed that we’ve redone some parts of the web app to support some of our new features, so that creating maps is now easier, faster, and more straightforward than ever. As part of these improvements we’ve rebuilt the way you are able to add layers to your maps.

Late last month, we had the pleasure of hosting an event devoted to real-time data mapping, a common request among our community of cartographers and data journalists. For every election map, crisis tracker, or geo-reporting tool, there is a strong need for resources that support consistent data updates and we’re happy to oblige with sync tables as a service in CartoDB.

This event was a kickoff to CartoCamps, a workshop series we’re launching to provide thematic bootcamps that train these common mapping concerns. Read on to learn more and sign-up for future events!

I remember this one time at band camp, it seemed things were going so well. It was a wet, hot, good ol’ American summer. Possibly the only thing missing was a proper web mapping class, appropriately scheduled after friendship bracelet making class.

So in the spirit of awesome summer camps, last week we held CartoCamp Edu, a day full of discussions, presentations, and workshops in collaboration with talented educators to think through the uses of web mapping in the classroom.

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