Up your skills and get moving quickly
By: Colleen McGinnis
Here’s a look at what’s new and updated in Help from the past few weeks. We cover everything from creating your first web map with GL JS, to adding real-world terrain in Unity, to building a driver app for iOS and Android. As always, you can find guides and tutorials on our Help page to get started with our tools or gain more hands-on experience for advanced projects.
Tutorials
Make a heatmap with Mapbox GL JS
Our heatmaps were a long-anticipated release, so we created a step-by-step guide to help you implement them right away. Heatmaps are a great way to explore massive point datasets in a way that is visually engaging.
Get started with Mapbox GL JS expressions
We just introduced expressions for GL JS. Use expressions to style data with multiple feature properties at once, apply conditional logic, and manipulate data with arithmetic and string operations for a more sophisticated relationship between your data and how it is styled. Take a look at this tutorial to learn how to write expressions in GL JS.
First steps with the Maps SDK for React Native
Our new SDK for React Native is a cross-platform solution that provides reusable JavaScript components for building mapping and location into Android and iOS apps. Learn the basics, including how to customize your map, add annotations with callouts, and display a user’s location on a map.
Use our iOS Store Locator Kit to create a custom store locator map that you can integrate into any iOS application. With the Kit, view several locations, browse additional information, and retrieve the distance and route to each from your user’s location. Start with one of five different themes and customize everything from store location data to marker icons and individual store cards.
Troubleshooting guides
We go to great lengths to protect the security of your account, your data, and your users. This guide contains recommendations and resources for building secure applications and keeping your account secure.
Improve the performance of GL JS maps
The performance of your Mapbox GL JS maps can depend on the render time, the source update time, and the layer update time. This guide walks through the performance model and provides suggestions for making more performant maps.
Let us know what other resources and tutorials you’d like to see on our help page via @mapbox. Our support team explores every aspect of our stack, building out the educational tools and experiences our users rely on. If you’re relentless about learning, we’re hiring a technical writer.
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