Getting your data into Carto - rteverson/fallofrome GitHub Wiki

This is the way I'd like us to try it, please.

Carto can import data via url, and github can generate such a url. Doing it this way means that as you add to your data via github, it will be automatically synced with Carto. Fantastic!

1. Decide which file in github will be your primary data source for a layer in Carto. You can import more than one into Carto. Use github to keep your versions straight; so you might import the version of the file in the master branch, so that you can see the viable version of your data, and also the version in your personal branch, so you can see how data you're adding will affect the map, before you commit those changes to the master version.

2. View the file in github, and right-click on raw--->copy link address

3. Sign into Carto, and navigate to the add datasets page, as Shawn showed us

4. Paste the copied link address (URL) into the URL box, and hit sumbit:

5. Carto will ask how often you want it to sync the data automatically. Choose a reasonable value. You can also manually ask Carto to sync, when you're working on your map.