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This month…Offline maps for all, MARTINI JavaScript library for real-time terrain mesh generation, vertical map labels
🌱 What’s New
Offline maps for all
You asked, we listened. Developers can now download as many offline map tiles as they want on pay-as-you-go — no contracts, no commitments, and no limits. Get started by upgrading to the latest Maps SDKs for iOS and Android, then adjust your offline tile limits. Offline maps usage will be metered as requests for the Vector or Raster tiles API and can be tracked in your account dashboard. Read our blog for tips and tricks and more information about pricing.
New cache management controls for Mapbox SDKs
Today we’re launching new client-side cache management APIs in our Maps SDKs for Android, iOS, and Web, giving developers more control over caching. You can now implement methods that clear a user’s cached tiles on-demand, letting you determine when map data and tileset updates take effect. The cache management APIs are available starting versions 8.2 of the Maps SDK for Android, 5.2 for iOS, and 1.2 for Web. Get started with the documentation on Android, iOS, and Web and learn more on our blog.
✨ New Demos
- MARTINI: Real-Time RTIN Terrain Mesh
- A JavaScript library for client-side terrain mesh generation called MARTINI: Mapbox’s Awesome Right-Triangulated Irregular Networks, Improved!
- Bring Mapbox data into ArcGIS
- You can bring Esri data into Mapbox — and users of ArcGIS Online, Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro can also import basemaps and tilesets from Mapbox Studio back into ArcGIS dashboards. Works both ways. :)
- Prototyping a campus app with 3D buildings with Framer X
- How to build an interactive app prototype with the Mapbox + Framer X integration, including data creation, 3D building extrusion, daytime/nighttime styling, and animations.
- How the Washington Post built the Opioid Epidemic in America map
- Learn how the Post team used Mapbox’s GL Geocoder to add search by pharmacy (in addition to city and county) to make this interactive data viz of the Opioid Epidemic in America.
🛠 Product Updates + Improvements
- GL JS v1.3.0 — Read more
- Introduce text-writing-mode to allow vertical labels.
- Extend variable text placement when text/icon-allow-overlap is true.
- Allow text-color to draw multicolored labels.
- Android Nav SDK v0.42.0 — Read more
- Bump mapbox-android-sdk version to 8.2.1
- Bump Mapbox Annotation Plugin version to v8 0.7.0
- Update translations to the latest Transifex.
📄 New Docs
📹 New Videos
- How to export (and import) custom map styles between Mapbox accounts
- #builtwithmapbox Developer Mashup Video #1 (August 2019)
📆 Events
- Webinar: How location data becomes traffic data — 9/12
- Kotlin User Group Meetup at Mapbox DC — 9/17
- Webinar: Visualizing critical, location-based metrics on serverless — 9/19
- Webinar: Industry change takes a generation, but AR navigation is now — 9/24
- Webinar: Isochrones: How far is it? About 15 minutes away — 9/26
- Webinar: Enable SAML Single Sign-on for Mapbox in 10 minutes — 10/3
- Webinar: Build your own 3D map with LIDAR point clouds — 10/17
🚀 Jobs
- Android Engineer, Navigation
- Senior Software Engineer, Platform
- Engineering Manager, Platform
- Android Engineer, Navigation
What’s new | September 2019 was originally published in Points of interest on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.