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Favorite satellite images of 2013
It’s been a great year for open data and a beautiful year for satellite imagery. Just for fun, here’s a few favorites.Confluence of the Fisher and Mellor glaciers, Antarctica. On November 11th, as the...
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Geologist Ryan Clark joins Mapbox
Geologist Ryan Clark joins the team! Ryan got into coding while maintaining the data behind various geologic maps at the Arizona Geological Survey. His deep technical skills range from maintaining...
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Mick Thompson joins Mapbox!
Civic hacker Mick Thompson joins Mapbox in San Francisco! We first started talking maps with Mick at Code for America, where he was a 2012 Fellow and most recently the Engineer in Residence. His years...
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Paul Goodman joins SF office
Paul Goodman is joining our expanding team in San Francisco, helping us grow our government and agriculture tools in addition to contributing to broader business strategy across Mapbox. His background...
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Eleanor Lutz joins Mapbox
Design consultant Eleanor Lutz joins the Mapbox team! As a designer and molecular biology major, Eleanor is experienced in bringing her design skills to anything from custom-made research equipment to...
View ArticleMapbox for Android blasts off
Android developers, we’ve heard you! Check out the new Mapbox Android SDK repository, read the quick start guide, and start sending your feedback for where we should go next.Based on OSMDroid, a...
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New /developers page
We just rolled out an update to our developers landing page. We built the new design to be more than just a jumping off point for developer resources: it’s also a guide for starting to develop with a...
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Good luck, Planet Labs!
Update: launch has been pushed back due to solar weather!Today this rocket will launch Planet Labs’ new imagery satellites to space:They sent up a couple test satellites in the summer, but this will be...
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A woodcut inspired map for city streets
I made a woodcut-inspired, textured map to showcase the complexity of urban streets. The map was created in TileMill 2 using different wooden textures for everything from parking lots and hospitals to...
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Beers in San Francisco: Tuesday the 14th!
Come get some drinks with the Mapbox West team at 7pm this Tuesday, the 14th. We’ll be at our favorite bar by the San Francisco office: Bloodhound. A contingent of the Mapbox East team will also be in...
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Mapbox.js v1.6.0: vectors and integrated Leaflet documentation
Mapbox.js is moving forward to fit our powerful new drawing tools on Mapbox: today’s version 1.6.0 introduces support for L.mapbox.featureLayer, a successor to L.mapbox.markerLayer that supports lines...
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State of the Map US in Washington, DC April 12 & 13
This year’s US-based OpenStreetMap conference will be in beautiful Washington, DC on April 12 and 13. Come out for the two day event packed with sessions on the future of OpenStreetMap, the free and...
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Tuning for mobile and low-bandwidth environments
Maps can be a challenge in low bandwidth scenarios—they rely on dynamic content being loaded fast and being constantly interactive. We’re tackling this challenge with native mobile SDKs and fast APIs:...
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Mozilla Location Services Coverage Map
Mozilla just published a new map showing the growing coverage of Mozilla Location Services. Mozilla announced Location Services late last year as a pilot project to provide geolocation lookups based on...
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Mapping the Chemical Spill in West Virginia
A chemical spill in West Virginia has left thousands in the West Virginia capital of Charleston and surrounding counties without drinking water. The 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol spill took place...
View ArticleUSGS Q&A: adding value to Landsat imagery with LEDAPS
As Bruno described last month, we leverage the Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System, or LEDAPS, software routines to process Landsat Level 1 images to surface reflectance. This...
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Boston Beers on Thursday the 23rd
Eric and I are going to be hitting Boston this week and would love to have some beers with you. Brave the cold and join us this Thursday, 6:30pm at Cambridge Brewing Company to see what Mapbox has been...
View ArticleCustomizable maps in Tableau
Tableau users can now add custom base maps to any visualizations across their business intelligence and analytics software product. The Information Lab, who implements and tailors Tableau’s software...
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Extend your maps with Mapbox.js plugins
Mapbox.js can be much more powerful with the help of plugins: everything from clustering markers to loading OpenStreetMap data has been implemented by members of the community and is ready to connect....
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Mapbox.js v1.6.1: Fixes, documentation, and a new site
Today we’re releasing Mapbox.js v1.6.1, which includes bug fixes, documentation improvements, and a system that will make it radically easier to use plugins to improve your map.This release includes an...
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