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“A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that is listed by the UNESCO as of special cultural or physical significance.” Wikipedia.

Today we are launching UNESCOplaces.org, an unofficial redesign proposal of the UNESCO site using our new product CartoSet. 

CartoSet is an Open Source Framework to publish and curate a geospatial dataset in simple and beautiful ways. Internally, CartoSet makes use of our upcoming Open Source Geospatial Database on the Cloud, CartoDB.

We are still cleaning code and making it easier for deployment and we will release all the source code at FOSS4G in Denver next week. If you want to learn more about CartoSet and CartoDB join us at the following presentations:

1. Techniques for distributed high-speed map tile generation using Mapnik & Node.js: @tokumin will show CartoDB internals and introduce the new Open Source project.
2. CartoSet, a new FOSS to create highly visual geo portals: @jatorre will develop a full site using the new CartoSet Framework. Good luck with the demo effect!

So today’s launch of UNESCOplaces.org is the first of many upcoming beautiful geospatial sites. We already have a number of people committed and developing their own sites, and starting next week everyone will be able to join the community.

We hope you like it and we look forward to meeting you at FOSS4G.