CartoPlot

CartoPlot has been created with business professionals, researchers, and home users in mind, with the goal of improving explorative or communicative tasks involving structured data. It aims at providing the power of the thematic mapping visualization techniques in an easy and cost effective manner. Nevertheless, it comes with an extended set of features, including:

Data sources
  • Support for popular tabular and spreadsheet formats (Excel, OpenDocument, CSV, tab-delimited, Access, ...)
  • Direct connectivity to common relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Oracle, SQL Server, ...)

Thematic mapping
  • Choropleth, prism, and proportional symbols maps
  • Flexible configuration of size and color
  • 3D view by mapping relative values to height
  • Aestetically-pleasing cartogram projections
  • Zoomable user interface, including drilling
  • Many options to fine-tune the appearance of the display

User interface
  • Document-centric interface
  • Docking framework for flexible arrangement of the various panels
  • Detachable windows
  • Progress indicator for long operations

Scalability
  • Useful for small datasets already
  • Scales to 10'000s of data objects

Deployment
  • Cross-platform: Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux supported
  • OEM licensing options available
  • Reasonably priced, most cost-effective thematic mapping tool on the market!
December 20, 2024

CartoPlot 2019.9.8 is available! You can download it here. It features various bug fixes and improvements It comes bundled with a selection of example datasets.