Company
Date Published
Author
Ernesto Martínez Becerra
Word count
690
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

CARTO has introduced a new feature called CARTO Boundaries that enables faster data visualizations in spatial applications by using official administrative, postal and statistical boundaries. This feature is included in the deck.gl v9 module and offers a simplified architecture for large scale spatial visualizations. By separating data from static boundary geometries, it accelerates map visualizations and reduces the need to process heavy geometry data in every query. CARTO Boundaries allows developers to join client-side data tables with pre-generated vector tilesets, which includes boundary geometries, simplifying the application architecture. The feature is available in public preview and can be used with Google BigQuery and Snowflake, with plans to expand the collection of pre-generated tilesets to more countries and types of boundaries.