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Cartos · Vision
Geospatial equity, sovereign by design.
Cartos isn't only a product — it's shared public infrastructure. One sovereign platform that many agencies, industries, and levels of government run together, with an agent reasoning across all of it. The same system that runs a city's operations can give an entire nation an even footing to use geospatial data for the things that matter most: how people live, how the land is cared for, and how they're governed.
The bigger purpose
From a platform to a public good.
Geospatial capability decides who gets to plan, respond, build, and be heard. When only a few can afford it, the gap compounds into unequal outcomes. Cartos exists to close that gap — and to point the capability at the problems that matter.
Access to high-quality geospatial and Earth-observation data is profoundly uneven — between nations, and between agencies inside a single government. That gap becomes uneven outcomes: weaker planning, slower disaster response, lower agricultural productivity, less accountable governance.
The barrier has never really been the satellites. It's the system to ingest, govern, reason over, and serve that data to the people who need it — sovereignly, affordably, and without a multi-year build. That system is Cartos.
Geospatial equity
Give every nation and agency the same starting line — foundational capability that no longer depends on a specialist budget or a foreign vendor.
Social justice
Put the map in service of people: where clinics and schools actually reach, where informal settlements are underserved, where services are missing. Evidence that communities can hold governments to.
Environmental resilience
Detect change over time — deforestation, water stress, coastal erosion, urban heat — and act on it. Sustainability becomes something you can measure and report, not just intend.
Government transparency
One authoritative picture, shared across agencies, with access controls and an audit trail. Decisions trace back to the data and the method that produced them.
Truly shared systems
One platform. Many mandates. Coming together.
The hard problems don't respect org charts. A flood is a public-safety problem, an environmental problem, a utility problem, a transport problem, and a housing problem at once. Cartos is deliberately built so those pieces sit on one substrate — so they can finally be reasoned about together.
Cartos is a common engine. Industries run over it as purpose-built editions — government, electric utility, airports, transportation, and infrastructure delivery — each a switchable catalogue of department modules, all sharing the same data fabric, the same identity, the same agent. A country doesn't buy five disconnected systems; it stands up one, and turns on the mandates it needs.
Because everything lives on the same fabric, the boundaries that normally silo data — agency, department, level of government — become access policy, not separate stacks. Teams see exactly what they're entitled to, and the whole picture composes when it's allowed to.
Electric utility
Cartos Grid
Nine departments — network, storm response, vegetation, fleet — over one operating picture, wired to the utility's systems of record.
Airport · DOT · AEC
Tower · Milepost · Blueprint
Airfields, state transportation portfolios, and infrastructure delivery — the same engine, purpose-built again and again.
See every edition.
Nine live editions, 67 department modules, all on one sovereign substrate.
Explore the editionsAgentic AI, over all of it
An intelligence that reasons across the whole picture.
A single platform is only worth it if something can think across the pieces. In Cartos, an AI agent sits above every module, every edition, and every data layer — and answers real-world questions in the language people actually ask them.
Ask the map. The agent discovers every layer a user is entitled to see — assets, incidents, parcels, infrastructure, field captures, satellite change — and queries across them: what's within two kilometres of this river; which schools lost power in the storm; where does new construction overlap a protected zone. It focuses the map, runs the analysis, and writes back an answer whose method is auditable.
Because the agent works over the same access policy as the person asking, it never sees more than they could. Reasoning is the idiom of the platform, not a bolt-on — and it's what turns a pile of layers into an answer to a real problem.
Reasons across silos
One agent over every accessible datasource in every edition — cross-department questions get cross-department answers.
Scoped to the asker
The agent inherits the user's tenant, team, and role — it answers within the same boundary the UI enforces.
Auditable by construction
Every answer, report, and derived dataset traces back to the exact work that produced it — the standard public-sector decisions require.
Where the need is greatest
Built to deliver for nations and agencies — especially across Africa.
Continental scale · humanitarian purpose
The right system for foundational capability, delivered where it's needed most.
Cartos is exactly the kind of platform African nations and humanitarian agencies have been under-served by the market to obtain: sovereign (data stays in-territory), shared (many agencies on one substrate, not a stack each), affordable (stand up capability in weeks, not a multi-year procurement), and agentic (the intelligence to turn raw data into decisions without a large specialist team).
That combination is what makes it deliverable for the missions that matter — food security and crop yield, settlement and urban-growth management, disaster resilience and response, public-health access, environmental stewardship, and the transparent governance that development partners and citizens both require. Cartos lowers the barrier to entry so a country starts producing intelligence quickly, in-territory, on data it owns.
Food security & crop yield
Settlement management
Disaster resilience
Public-health access
Environmental stewardship
Transparent governance
Envisioned partner categories
Sovereign capability
Development finance
Cloud & AI scale
An effort of this ambition needs aligned backing across sovereign capability, development-finance institutions, and cloud / AI partners. Shown as envisioned partner categories, not commitments.
This is no longer only a vision. Cartos Africa — a standalone continental Government edition for African governments and national mapping agencies — is live: Continental Command plus eight use-case departments (food security, health & immunization, border management, port management, land use, parcel fabric, flood & climate risk, settlement management) over a 54-country scope selector. Explore it at africa.cartosatlas.com. See it on the Editions page →
Seamless from orbit to the street
One system, connecting every level of government.
The value of a single shared platform is clearest when you follow the same data down through the tiers of government — national, state or emirate, county, municipal — with no seams, no re-keying, and no lost context between them.
The UAE Base Map is one example of the pattern: a single, authoritative geospatial foundation spanning all seven Emirates, on which federal and local agencies build from the same trusted picture. The same architecture applies anywhere a country wants its national, regional, and local government working off one map instead of many.
Ingest once, serve everywhere
A national foundation flows down to every agency and municipality without duplication or a fresh procurement at each tier.
Local autonomy, national coherence
Each tier operates its own modules and data under team-scoped access — while everyone shares one authoritative base.
The loop runs both ways
Ground truth captured in the field flows back up to keep the national base map current and the AI honest.
Reach the ground · measure the outcome
Mobile capture and KPI dashboards make it real.
A vision only counts if it reaches the field worker and shows up on the decision-maker's screen. Cartos closes both ends of that loop — a sovereign mobile edge that gathers ground truth, and per-module dashboards that turn it into a number a minister or a mayor can act on.
Mobile field applications
Cartos Field is a no-code platform for standing up bespoke field apps — schema-driven forms, a point/line/polygon geometry editor, photos and signatures — that work fully offline and sync into the data fabric when a connection returns. It's the ground-truth edge for places where connectivity is intermittent and the last mile is where the truth lives, and it multiplies seats far beyond the analyst desk. Explore Cartos Field →
KPI dashboards, per module
Every module carries a configurable KPI dashboard, bound to live catalog data — response times, outages restored, pavement condition, projects at risk, crop stress, service coverage. Admins compose the cards; leaders read them at a glance and drill from a KPI straight to the place on the map. It's how a shared platform becomes accountable governance rather than a pile of layers. See the dashboards across editions →
How the arc serves it
Every phase makes the mission real.
Phase I
The sovereign platform
Ingests and serves the foundational base across agencies and editions, in-territory, with team-scoped access. Explore →
Phase II
Turns data into decisions
Detects change, builds 3D, and writes auditable reports — the outcomes funders and agencies can measure. Explore →
Phase III
Reaches the ground
Puts capture in the hands of a field workforce — the ground truth that keeps the base map current and the AI honest. Explore →
Partner with us
Build foundational geospatial capability — sovereignly.
Whether it's a national base map, a continental program, a humanitarian mission, or a single agency's mandate, Cartos can be the central partner to ingest the data, reason over it, and deliver where it's needed most. Conversations run under NDA.