I'm a heavy ArcGIS user, and was wondering how one may bring shapefiles onto CARTO.
I see that CARTO does not allow one to upload .shp datasets. Is there a easy conversion anyone would recommend?
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You are able to upload shapefiles onto CARTO, however they have to be in a zip file with all related extensions.
They provide details in their documentation here
CARTO creates datasets from shapefiles by importing a single zipped file. If your shapefile is not importing, make sure that:
You are uploading a zipped file, and not just one of the files it contains, such as a .shp file.
Your zipped file contains .shp, .dbf, .shx, and .prj files.
Your file names all have the same prefix. For example myshapefile.zip, myshapefile.shp, myshapefile.dbf, myshapefile.shx, and myshapefile.prj.
Remember to use in proj WGS 84 (Google it) EPSG 4326. Carto use it. All of their tables include the_geom column, which is a geometry field that indexes geometries with the EPSG:4326 (WGS 1984) coordinate system. All tables also automatically generate and update the_geom_webmercator column, which references the column internally to quickly create tiles for maps. More infos here
