carto-find-spatial-data

The CARTO Data Observatory (DO) is a catalog of curated external spatial datasets — demographics, points of interest, environmental data, mobility, financial — that you can subscribe to and have materialized into your own data warehouse. Instead of the user hunting down a US census shapefile, this skill answers: "what's already curated in the DO that would help here?"

This skill covers discovery and subscription. Once subscribed, the data lives in the user's warehouse and is queryable like any other table — see carto-query-datawarehouse.

When to use this skill

• The user asks for "demographics", "points of interest", "boundaries", "mobility data", "weather", or any other category of external spatial data.
• The user has internal data and wants to enrich it with external context (e.g., spatial-join their stores against census tracts).
• The user is exploring what's available before committing to a paid subscription.

If the user already has the dataset in their warehouse, jump to carto-explore-datawarehouse instead — DO is for sourcing new external data.

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