September 02, 2015 -- Applied Geographics (AppGeo), a nationally recognized geospatial consulting firm, is now a certified CartoDB partner. As a certified partner, AppGeo provides its application deployment expertise for customers seeking to take advantage of this exciting new technology, including provision of CartoDB licenses.

“Without question the CartoDB platform advances the speed and elegance of geographic data visualization for our clients,” said Rich Grady, President of AppGeo. “Our customers look to us for empathetic solutions that lower costs, increase public engagement, enable collaboration, integrate the newest datasets and visualize them in variety of expressive ways. CartoDB’s toolset is a key part of the current and future Applied Geographics solution stack for government and commercial enterprises.”

“We are excited to see the valuable technology solutions AppGeo will craft with CartoDB to help clients make better decisions,” says Javier de la Torre, CEO of CartoDB. "We believe this partnership will bring robust tools that help local government use data to uncover insights and enhance their operations."

“Based on its extensive functional capabilities, we built CartoDB mapping into the latest release of our MapGeo hosted solution,” said Kate Hickey, Vice President and Director of Local Government Services. “MapGeo customers now view their data in news ways and share their authoritative property data through heat maps, cluster maps, and animated time series maps.”

“Our geospatial analysts and developers consistently find that CartoDB provides a huge advantage for rapidly creating easy-to-use interactive maps with high quality cartography and geographic representations,” said Jim Scott, Director of Western Operations for AppGeo. “This means faster turn around on geographic analysis and application development, yielding better results at lower cost.”

AppGeo continuously explores new technologies that match customer requirements for performance, functionality and cost-effectiveness when applying geography to solving problems. CartoDB meets AppGeo’s standard in all respects.

About AppGeo 

Applied Geographics, Inc. (AppGeo, www.AppGeo.com) provides Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial Information Technology (geospatial IT) consulting services that help businesses to increase profitability and government departments to increase efficiency and service. Our Applied Geographics consulting services cover all aspects of geospatial IT: planning, data, custom applications, technical support and hosting. A hallmark of AppGeo’s approach is its ability to advise, design and deploy solutions using combinations of today’s leading geospatial IT suited to customer needs, including: Google, Esri, CartoDB, Open Source, and many others.

About CartoDB

CartoDB is a location intelligence and data visualization engine that turns data into insights. CartoDB makes it easy for anyone to create and design maps, and to do advanced location analysis. CartoDB's APIs bring powerful location intelligence to web applications. www.cartodb.com