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Your neighborhood as a woodcut
A week ago I posted screenshots of a woodcut inspired map I made. A lot of people asked for an interactive version, so I spent some time polishing the map for the entire world.This time I added labels...
View ArticleAlgae Blooms from Space
This algae bloom off the Coast of Estonia was captured by NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite at 30 meter resolution, on July 16th, 2002. This algae, a type of cyanobacteria, can be found in almost every...
View ArticleTattoos & TileMill 2
Tattoos & TileMill 2: We've been having some serious fun styling up TileMill 2 Vector Tiles. Now it's your turn to make something rad.Learn more about Vector Tiles.Follow...
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Pinterest pushes maps to iPhone
Pinterest has released a new version of its iPhone app that includes their custom branded map. With this update, you can now quickly build your own Place Pins map with just a few clicks.Check it out in...
View ArticleRasterio: GDAL especially for Python programmers
Rasterio is a GDAL and Numpy-based Python library designed to make your work with geospatial raster data more productive, more fun — more Zen. It’s a new open source project from the satellite team at...
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Foursquare: Maps designed for functionality
Foursquare users will notice a cool web update today: beautiful new maps, using a totally custom style we designed in collaboration with an amazing team at Foursquare. In addition to being designed...
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Hyper-styled terrain
Our Vector Terrain layer is close and we’re having some fun with it in TileMill 2. Here is a highly detailed contour map of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The styling itself is very basic–a single color...
View ArticleMonitoring transit from Space
Remote sensing enables monitoring of transportation infrastructure across seasons and across the world. Above is an example of an interactive map made using Landsat 7 satellite images of Eastern...
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Smart Directions Powered by OSRM's Enhanced Graph Model
Offering effective directions for pedestrians, cyclists or drivers is much more than simply computing the most direct connection in the road network. The open source routing engine Project OSRM...
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Interactive heatmaps with Mapbox.js
Just a couple of weeks ago, we’ve carefully picked and hosted the best plugins to use with Mapbox.js and its core, Leaflet. Today I’m happy to introduce a small but useful addition to the list —...
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Visualizing NDVI for Agriculture
NDVI is a common measure in remote sensing for agriculture — capturing how much more near infrared light is reflected compared to visible red. It helps differentiate bare soil from grass or forest,...
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GeoLadies --> OpenStreetMap
GeoLadies — this is an open invitation to join the OpenStreetMap community. Like many technology communities, OpenStreetMap has more dudes than ladies. But what makes OpenStreetMap great is that people...
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Expanding Leaflet's format support with Omnivore
Omnivore helps Mapbox.js& Leaflet eat more types of data. We love and support GeoJSON, but sometimes specific data is in other formats, like GPX from a running watch, KML from Google Earth, CSVs...
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Randomness in map design
I introduced an element of randomness into a recent map design. Misplaced buildings and overlapping areas of texture bring energy and excitement to the experience of viewing a map. The end result is a...
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GitHub adds visual history for maps
GitHub just added the ability to show changes to their awesome integrated maps. This makes collaborating on open geodata even better: you can see the full history of GeoJSON files as they’re edited....
View ArticleSochi, with love
OpenStreetMap has been in the news this month for its great coverage in and around the Olympic venues, particularly in comparison with Google Maps. Wired has a good piece on the subject, and Ilya...
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State of the Map US - Get In On Early Bird Rate Until Tomorrow
The next OpenStreetMap conference is coming to Washington, DC April 12 & 13, and you have through tomorrow — Saturday — to register at the early bird rate of just $75.The conference is a great...
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Mapping + Jamón at Mobile World Congress
Sign up to get an invite to our Mobile World Congress party – lots of talk about maps on mobile! Uncorking starts at 6pm on Tuesday the 25th of February at the Spanish Pavilion in Congress Square.We...
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Let's Meet Up At Wayra's 4 Years from Now Event
We are supporting Telefonica’s Wayra initiative, offering up free access to Mapbox APIs to Wayra’s next wave of tech accelerator startups. If you are a Wayra backed start-up or applying to be one come...
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Ubuntu mobile maps: open maps on an open platform
Today at Mobile World Congress we showed off Mapbox support for Ubuntu Mobile with direct Mapbox.js integration into any HTML5 Ubuntu Mobile app. Developers can design totally custom maps and integrate...
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