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OpenStreetMap's Redesign Goes Live! More Focused, More Inviting, More Map
A redesign of OpenStreetMap.org has just gone live. Since we kicked off with State of the Map US in San Francisco, we have been working closely with the OpenStreetMap community to implement this new...
View ArticleGoogle Glass + Strava Map
We love wearables at MapBox. I have Google Glass, and almost the whole team uses Strava to track their running or biking. So last Sunday I went for a long run to check out the Strava app for Glass. I...
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Ski Maps
Vail, Colorado is home to the largest ski resort in the United States.Ski trails and ski lifts are just some of the latest outdoor features being added to MapBox Streets and getting special attention...
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Mapping the open web using GeoJSON
GeoJSON is an open format for encoding information about geographic features using JSON. It has much in common with older GIS formats, but also a few new twists: GeoJSON is a text format, has a...
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Updating OpenStreetMap with the latest US road data
We can now pull the most current US government index of all roads directly into OpenStreetMap for tracing. Just go to OpenStreetMap.org, click Edit, and choose the "New & Misaligned TIGER Roads"...
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Smog from Space
This is what smog looks like from outer space. This true color VIIRS image was captured by the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite on October 22, 2013 and shows the deteriorating air quality situation across...
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Drag and Drop with Maki Icons and Style
You can now drag & drop GeoJSON, KML, GPX, and CSV files onto the MapBox editor and style them with Maki markers.
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Kojo Nnamdi on the future of maps
Live from Washington DC - Eric and Jonah Jones, Lead designer for Google Maps were on today's The Kojo Nnamdi Show on "The Next Generation of Online Maps." Here's the full audio version of the...
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Rafa Gutierrez joins MapBox!
Rafa Gutierrez is the new support hero at MapBox! He will be fielding developer questions on MapBox Support and Stack Overflow and producing on documentation, screencasts, and blog posts. He is here to...
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Quick add for places in OpenStreetMap
It's faster and easier to add the location of your local Starbucks, Sparkasse, Сбербанк, or ファミリーマート to OpenStreetMap: just add a point and start typing a name, and the editor will autocomplete the...
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Removing Atmosphere Scatter
Raw earth imagery from satellites is blue-ish — the atoms in atmosphere scatter the blue color of solar light the most. We are processing algorithms to make brighter colors that are truer to what you...
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Adam Phillips to lead Business Development
Adam Phillips is our new business development lead at MapBox, working out of our San Francisco office! He will be establishing strategic business direction, striking partnerships, and scaling sales...
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Before and after atmospheric correction
Raw earth imagery from satellites is blue-ish due to atmospheric scattering. Above you can see the before-and-after comparison. On the left the blueish“top of atmosphere” reflectance, on the right the...
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Holiday party 2013
This week our team converged on Washington, DC for a sprint week and our annual holiday party, with 45 people coming together, flying in from the West Coast, Peru, Ukraine, England, and Germany. It’s...
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Soon: powerful drawing tools
Soon you’ll be able to draw lines and polygons and add custom styles to make maps with even more data and interactivity.
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Removing Cloud Shadows
These shadowy shapes (pink arrows) littered on the mountains are cloud shadows.I just added a new method to our declouding algorithm that removes all cloud shadows for our next version of Cloudless...
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Mapping the future
We’ve been thinking about the future of mapping in our solar system and beyond. We can’t wait to see what’s out there.
View ArticleThe Hidden Beauty of Congestion — Real Time Holiday Traffic Visualized
Thanks to a collection of traffic speed data from INRIX, we’ve been watching how waves of traffic formed, moved, and dissipated on the roads near Washington in the days around Thanksgiving.I was...
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Beyond the dot: a powerful new editor for Mapbox
Today you can draw and annotate maps in a whole new way with your MapBox account: we’ve added tools for polygon and line features, along with user-friendly styling options and more powerful...
View ArticleSwipe to compare tiles in Mapbox.js
Swiping between two layers is one of the most convenient ways to compare map imagery, and now it’s back in full glory in Mapbox.js! The interactive example below shows the seasonal change near the Lake...
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