CARTO vs MAPS.ME: What are the differences?

Developers describe CARTO as "The CARTO platform empowers business analysts, data scientists and more, to turn location data into business outcomes". The CARTO platform empowers everyone, from business analysts to data scientists, to turn location data into business outcomes. We accelerate innovation, power new use cases and disrupt business models through Location Intelligence. On the other hand, MAPS.ME is detailed as "Offline OpenStreetMap maps for iOS/Android". MAPS.ME is an open source cross-platform offline maps application, built on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data. It was publicly released for iOS and Android.

CARTO and MAPS.ME belong to "Mapping APIs" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by CARTO are:

• Drag and drop data import allows you to create visualizations in seconds
• Make sense of your location data and power your business.
• Create beautiful visualizations with our easy to use design and styling tools.

On the other hand, MAPS.ME provides the following key features:

• Totally Offline
• WorldWide
• Really Fast

CARTO and MAPS.ME are both open source tools. MAPS.ME with 3.05K GitHub stars and 660 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than CARTO with 2.19K GitHub stars and 603 GitHub forks.