It’s Mapbox… in a box
By: Alex Ulsh
A new version of our on-premises mapping and location platform, Atlas, shipped today — running fully offline on your own secure infrastructure. Atlas comes equipped with our cloud-based mapping APIs but is designed to run fully air-gapped, offline, or behind a firewall. It now comes with vector maps visualizing data at 60fps, our iOS/Android/React Native SDKs, and our design tool, Studio.
This new version includes:
- Offline Studio: Build beautiful maps and custom tilesets offline
- HTTPS support: Use your own TLS certificates directly in Atlas without a separate proxy server
- Custom tilesets: use Tippecanoe to transform massive vector datasets into slim mbtiles files or use GDAL to create tilesets of custom high resolution satellite imagery
- Docker: Atlas now runs on Docker for easy installation and administration
Atlas is truly all of Mapbox in a box — including our fast vector maps technology, allowing you to render your data at 60 fps. Create custom map styles with Mapbox Studio and then use them to power your on-premises applications running GL JS, our Maps SDKs for iOS and Android, and even our Maps SDK for Unity.
With Atlas, you can use our tools in air-gapped or offline environments and other areas where connectivity isn’t available or desirable. Running offline in disconnected environments is core to our roots; monitoring deforestation in the Congo; tracking malaria to see where to put clinics in Nigeria; using satellite imagery to measure floods in Pakistan.
Atlas is designed to work where you need it including on a virtual private client, bare metal servers in corporate data centers, laptops running with no internet, or even a USB stick. This means that just about every government agency that needs to be FISMA — or DoD RMF — compliant can use Atlas as their on-premises mapping server of choice. And healthcare companies needing to host, maintain, and protect sensitive data regulated by HIPAA can use Atlas to visualize patient trends at scale.
With Atlas, we wanted to give analysts and developers across healthcare, government, and telecom a set of robust tools to visualize and analyze their data. This upgraded version of Atlas simplifies compliance with GDPR, SOC 2, and other regulations. Organizations can build the same fast, customized visualizations they see in the news or on some of the leading business intelligence software easily and securely. — Peter Sirota, Mapbox SVP Engineering
Atlas isn’t just offline maps — it’s an offline location platform—and this is just the first of many planned upgrades for Atlas.
Find out more, or if you’re ready to start mapping with Atlas, reach out to our team.
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