Welcome to WPCarto. If you are interested in the world of cartography, data visualization and WordPress, if you want to know how to show your maps, data visualizations, etc., this is the place where I talk about all this themes.
In recent years there has been an explosion in which the GIS world has jumped to the web through Webmapping, but also data visualization has become fashionable with interesting javascript libraries and SAAS type services with which you can do real wonders.
Here we will see how to do all this with WordPress, we will explore plugins, languages, libraries and everything that allows us to “paint” a map or a super cool graphic in WordPress or whatever.
Advantages of inserting maps in WordPress with Free Software
WordPress
Who has not inserted a map on their website or that of a client at some time in their life? In this article we will see why it is important to choose free software as an alternative, when inserting maps in WordPress. This article is inspired by the talk I gave in March…
Map Block Leaflet, by Jesús Olazagoitia
WordPress
Map Block Leaflet is a map plugin for WordPress, which I review in this article thoroughly.
What is Leaflet?
Webmapping
What is Leaflet? It is an open source library for creating mapping web applications. I tell you how it works.
How to hide the top bar of Google My Maps
Webmapping
In this article I tell you how to hide the top bar of Google My Maps. What has worked for me and what has not worked for me.
Register the Google Maps API
Webmapping
In this article I tell you how to register the Google Maps API, either to insert a map on your website, or for a maps plugin.
How to embed a Google Maps map in WordPress manually
Webmapping
The easiest way to insert a Google Maps map into WordPress is probably with an html iframe, as we’ll see here.
What is GIS
What is
What is a GIS? In this article I explain what a Geographic Information System is, and briefly tell the history of this type of software.