03-cartography

Cartography with CARTO

1. Cartographic Design

Talks

• Cartographic design principles
• All about the carto in CARTO
• How (not) to lie with CARTO
• Mobile cartography

CartoCSS

• CartoCSS Styling Documentation
• Guides:
  • Basic CartoCSS for map styling
  • Applying labels to your data
• CartoCSS foundations
• CartoCSS basics

TurboCARTO

• TurboCARTO Documentation
• Guides:
  • Styling thematic maps with TurboCARTO
  • TurboCARTO by Geometries
• The good, the handsome and the turbo

2. Exercises

Title	Difficulty	Technology
Customize Builder Styles for More Meaningful Maps	⭐	BUILDER
TurboCARTO workshop	⭐⭐	TurboCARTO
Africa vintage map	⭐⭐:star:	BUILDER, CartoCSS, TurboCARTO
Game of Thrones basemap	⭐⭐⭐	BUILDER, CartoCSS, TurboCARTO

3. Resources

Colors

• Why is color important in maps?
• Color palettes tell a story
• ColorBrewer
• CARTOcolors:
  • Landing page
  • Documentation
  • Scheme names
• CARTO Color Scale tool
• Color Blending Values

Other resources

• Dig into the Torque unknown
• The Basics of Data Classification
• Normalize Data to Create Meaningful Polygon Maps
• The Theory of the 4 colors (in Spanish)
• Three cartography tricks for making CARTO BUILDER maps