Global Forest Watch and Vizzuality have come together to make visualizing ecological data in maps that much more useful and effective. CartoDB is excited to take part in GFW’s mission in forest preservation.

We’re gearing up for the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the conference agenda highlights the blistering pace of growth and innovation in mobile communications. Mobile healthcare? Remote education? 5G?

It only takes a little bit of time working in the geospatial industry before you hear the name, Paul Ramsey. His work on PostGIS and helping to cultivate an amazing community around the open source geospatial technology is humbling. Beyond that though, a simple scan of his blog posts and you’ll see that he thinks deeply about not only open source, but how it does and should affect many aspects of business and government. He can move from a conversation about personally identifiable information to a conversation about the procurement process of local governments with impressive ease.

We have been longtime fans of Paul and finally today, get to announce that he is joining us here at CartoDB. To share this moment with you, we thought we would present a special blog post… 5 Questions with Paul Ramsey.

FOSS4G and PGCUS are the premiere conference series for the open data movement which seeks to bridge society, developers, educators, activists, companies, and governments together on the subject of free and open sources for geospatial software.

We’re excited to announce that Carlos Tallón is joining CartoDB. Carlos was previously lead designer at Minijuegos.com. He has excelent taste in design and aesthetics and awesome iconography skills. Carlos will be helping our community grow and make the CartoDB Editor even simpler to use.

In case you were trapped on a moutain, in a blizzard so thick you couldn’t see your hands in front of your face, and just got back to civilization this morning, let us say the Superbowl happened last night. The team from the East Coast beat the team from the West Coast in a game where many fans held their breath until only 10 seconds were left.

If you love football, or if you don’t love football but you love maps, we want to show you a couple of maps that use CartoDB to show us some neat things about the Superbowl last night.

CartoDB is excited to participate in the American Museum of Natural History’s Educator’s Evening on January 30. We’re excited because we know that secondary and primary students will do amazing things with maps.

Join us in welcoming our latest cartographer, Aurelia Moser, to the CartoDB team in New York City! Aurelia is a librarian, developer and cartographer by trade who builds communities around code through education and outreach.

The open data movement is sweeping the globe like winter storm Juno has swept the Northeast. Yet when individual cities want to make their data available online, they don’t want to end up with a data portal that’s too unique a snowflake — and thus too hard to use and maintain.