We just pushed three million square kilometers of new imagery into Mapbox Satellite. Last year, we talked about our purchase of this high-res data from DigitalGlobe. A few weeks ago, I posted about one of the ways we choose where to improve Mapbox Satellite. Today, all Mapbox users can take advantage of a massive refresh that updates high-priority urban areas worldwide and improves coverage in hundreds of other spots.
The maps below show a few examples of this fresh 30 cm imagery – the highest resolution satellite imagery available in the market. Check out our Instagram feed and come back to the blog in the next few weeks as we show you some of our favorite updates. You’ll be seeing high-res data captured within the last few months by DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite. We’ll also be sharing engineering details on how we’ve optimized our imagery processing pipelines to support large scale updates.