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CARTO vs MapTiler: What are the differences?
CARTO: 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; MapTiler: The tool has been designed for producing seamless maps and aerial photo layers covering whole countries. It is a software for map tile rendering. It has been designed for producing seamless maps and aerial photo layers covering whole countries. The rendering is fast and efficient, and it can fully utilize multiple CPUs to 100%.
CARTO and MapTiler can be primarily classified as "Mapping APIs" tools.
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, MapTiler provides the following key features:
- Satellite imagery
- Drones
- Precision agriculture.
CARTO is an open source tool with 2.23K GitHub stars and 609 GitHub forks. Here's a link to CARTO's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of CARTO
- Crisp UI1
- Great customer service1
- Comprehensive platform1
Pros of MapTiler
- Vector tiles2
- OpenStreetMap1
- Affordable1
- Custom map design (colors, fonts, etc)1
