February 2019 Summaries

The new CARTO dashboard has been released, offering a fresh look and feel with simplified navigation, a global search box, and usability fixes such as condensed views and multiple item selection options. The updated layout aims to increase productivity while providing a modern and user-friendly experience. Performance improvements include faster loading times, making it easier for users to access their favorite features. The new dashboard is now being progressively enabled for all CARTO users, allowing them to try out the updates and provide feedback.

CARTO VL is a fully GPU accelerated library for map making that has unleashed the full potential behind WebGL, allowing for fast and efficient styling and rendering of features on maps. The library's rendering pipeline uses 2D textures to store feature properties and rendering properties, and dynamically generates shaders to transform feature properties into feature rendering properties. This allows for super-fast restyling and supports a wide range of geometry types and filtering options, making it ideal for applications that require high-performance mapping capabilities. By using WebGL's full potential, CARTO VL enables the display of large numbers of animated features at 60 frames per second, making it an attractive solution for developers looking to improve their map-making capabilities.