CARTO alternative for teams without a data warehouse

Where CARTO fits

CARTO is a cloud-native platform for location intelligence. It connects to the data warehouse your company already runs and brings spatial analysis, apps and developer tools to the data you keep there. It is strongest when you have that data and a team to work with it. MapBees is for the question that comes before that investment: which neighborhoods are worth a closer look, using data that is already on the map.

Where CARTO is the better fit

• Your own data lives in a cloud warehouse, and the analysis should run there.
• You are building a custom app, dashboard or workflow for other people in your company.
• You need to combine many datasets of your own, at a scale and update rhythm you control.

What you can answer in MapBees today

Try it on a real map

Each button opens the example in the map app, ready to change.

Market share, ready to run

Place your stores and competitor stores, give each an attractiveness, and pick how demand is counted: residents, households, income or building volume. Market Share draws each store's catchment, splits the contested hexes with the Huff gravity model, and reports captured demand, share and cannibalization store by store.

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What MapBees does differently

• Nothing to connect: measures from five groups, from Building volume to Affluence, are already loaded for every city.
• Formulas without SQL: Fair share, Missing, Clusters, Variety and Cross two are map types with plain-word controls.
• Questions in plain words: Scout Bee builds the map from a sentence and lists its Standouts, the top groups of nearby hexes, by neighborhood.
• Answers with sources: the questions-answered pages for large cities name the source and census year behind every answer, and say what the data cannot show.