Company
Date Published
Author
Javier de la Torre
Word count
1034
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Google Cloud and CARTO have partnered to provide a powerful tool for geospatial analysis at scale, called BigQuery Tiler. This tool allows users to visualize and analyze massive datasets in real-time, eliminating the need for complex batch data updates and reducing user downtime. With the support of Google Cloud's BigQuery, users can ingest, store, compute, and visualize their geospatial data seamlessly, making it easier to drive more efficient business decisions. The CARTO Spatial Extension for BigQuery enables users to create tilesets from large datasets, which can be visualized using the Map Viewer tool. This tool provides a range of features, including color ramps for data-driven visualizations and integration with web mapping libraries. By leveraging Google Cloud's BigQuery Tiler, organizations can gain insights into complex analytical use cases such as cellular network deployment, IoT analytics, or mobility analysis.