Maps are a wonderful way to tell stories, and with today’s release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, we felt a visualization of the film’s locations in New Zealand would be suiting, and while Bilbo went “There and Back Again” in an adventure that film revelers the world throughout will undoubtedly flock to this weekend. Peter Jackson and the crew of the Hobbit Movie did much of the same, spending a grueling 266 days filming in the studio, and then travelling the country in two teams to shoot those locations that make up Middle Earth in the film.

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With the recent release of 2.0, you have probably noticed a our complete overhaul of styling features in CartoDB. In this post we are going to explore those features in detail. We’ll look at the changes to the user-interface and some of the great new styling upgrades that come with this release. Some things to look for below include, new point-and-click visualization, support for new CartoCSS methods, new the ability to add a third dimension to your polygons.