1. Civic Web Mapping
Andy Eschbacher — Map Scientist, CartoDB

2. 10 YEARS AGO

3. Google Maps Beta, Feb 8, 2005

4. 5 YEARS AGO

7. WHY MAPS?

10. http://bit.ly/ZaqMZY

12. LEVERAGING THE
TECHNOLOGY WAS
HARD!

13. LET’S GIVE
EVERYBODY A BETTER
TOOL!

15. Platform
Your projects
Services &
support
Editor
Introduction to the technology
Open Source
Software as a Service
Freemium to Enterprise
Incredible Community
World Class Technology

16. THE EDITOR

17. Create a map in minutes

18. THE PLATFORM

21. Javier Arce’s Japan Crowdsourcing map
http://japan.javierarce.com/

22. SQL API

23. Dynamic

27. Easy integration

28. Easily extensible

29. FROM:
LET’S HELP PEOPLE
MAKE MAPS
TO:

30. Crazy
Geo gone

38. A STORY EVERY DAY

47. Civic hacking examples

48. Chris Whong
former betaNYC Brigade Captain

49. https://cwhong.cartodb.com/api/v2/sql?
skipfields=sbbl,cartodb_id,created_at,upd
ated_at,name,description&format={{type}}
&filename=pluto&q=SELECT * FROM
plutoshapes a LEFT OUTER JOIN
(SELECT bbl{{fields}} FROM pluto14v2) b
ON a.sbbl = b.bbl WHERE
ST_INTERSECTS({{{intersects}}},
a.the_geom)
The heart of PlutoPlus

50. SQL API call:
https://cwhong.cartodb.com/api/v2/sql
Query:
q=SELECT * FROM plutoshapes a LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT
bbl{{fields}} FROM pluto14v2) b ON a.sbbl = b.bbl WHERE
ST_INTERSECTS({{{intersects}}}, a.the_geom)
The heart of PlutoPlus
Bookkeeping:
skipfields=sbbl,cartodb_id,created_at,updated_at,name,descriptio
n&format={{type}}&filename=pluto

51. The heart of PlutoPlus
SELECT *
FROM
plutoshapes a
LEFT OUTER JOIN
( SELECT
bbl{{fields}}
FROM pluto14v2
) b
ON a.sbbl = b.bbl
WHERE
ST_INTERSECTS({{{intersects}}}, a.the_geom

52. Chris Henrick
amirentstabilized.com

54. http://largelots.org/

55. AT THE INTERSECTION OF
SOMETHING VERY EXCITING

56. MAPS
& THE RETURN OF
PLAYFUL DESIGN

57. WEB DESIGN CARTOGRAPHY

60. Eric Fischer

63. peter desmet

64. USER DRIVEN MAPPING
OR
NEVER THE SAME MAP TWICE

67. Same address, same boundaries no matter
what service is providing the tile
credit Alan McConchie & Beth Schechter

68. Crimea
What you see in
Russia
What you see in
Ukraine
We work to provide as much discoverable information as possible so
that users can make their own judgments about geopolitical disputes

70. In CartoDB, the map can
change 100% for every viewer
What you see What I see

72. http://academy.cartodb.com/

74. THANK YOU
@MrEPhysics

75. Workshop
bit.ly/cdb-cfa