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Join Us for Spring New York City Happy Hour
Join us for drinks at the New York City Mapbox happy hour on Wednesday, April 2nd. We’ve been up to some interesting things lately — rethinking satellite imagery, rendering fully vector terrain...
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Beer + bánh mì: Highlights from last night
Great seeing everyone at Mapbox San Francisco last night! Kegs + backup Bud Light + Bicycle Bánh Mì happened. Here are some highlights.Checking out Eric Fischer’s “Locals and Tourists” mapCamille &...
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Finding Planes with Satellites
127 planes were reported in the past few days as people helped search Blackbridge imagery for missing flight MH370— out of more than thousand reports overall. While none of these finds pointed to the...
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Ebola mapping in Guinea: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Ebola has broken out in West Africa. As of this morning, about 60 people have died of hemorrhagic fever in southern Guinea, with Ebola confirmed in more than a dozen cases — and the the virus may be...
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Cloak: Anti-social network mapping
As seen on CNN, Time, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, LA Times, Huffington Post, InformationWeek, Jimmy Fallon’s monologue, and seemingly everywhere else, Cloak, the new iPhone app for the anti-social...
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Welcoming State of the Map US with a Garage Party
We’re excited for this year’s U.S. OpenStreetMap conference coming to Washington, DC. To welcome and get to know the 400+ OpenStreetMap contributors converging for the conference, we’re throwing a...
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Taller OpenStreetMap y Mapbox alrededor del Foro Económico Mundial en Panama
Next week I´ll be in Panama giving a Workshop on OpenStreetMap and Mapbox. That week we are also talking at the World Economic Forum on Latinoamerica about Innovation and Technology.El próximo Lunes 31...
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CalGIS: Three days of mapping + a party
We’re kicking off CalGIS on Monday, April 14th with a party. Join us at the Cannery Row Brewing Company at 95 Prescott Avenue in Monterey at 6pm to talk maps + have some beers + celebrate CalGIS in its...
View ArticleOver 100,000 buildings mapped in Guinea where Ebola broke out
In the past 5 days the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and volunteers mapped over 100,000 buildings and hundreds of miles of roads in Guinea where Ebola broke out. In just these few days since the...
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GeoDC Today: How To Use OpenStreetMap
Come out to GeoDC on Wednesday, April 2nd, at Stetson’s. Beers at 7:00 pm, presentations kick off at 7:30 pm. The annual OpenStreetMap conference State of the Map is right around the corner, so this...
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Zeit Online Launches Custom Maps
Zeit Online, the digital sister publication of Germany’s most widely read weekly paper launched new maps in a completely custom branded design, seamlessly integrating into the website’s look and feel....
View ArticleNew high resolution satellite images for Ebola outbreak region
We just processed high resolution imagery with DigitalGlobe for Mamou, a region within the center of the Ebola outbreak where more than 80 people have died and more are at risk as the virus spreads to...
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Carol Hansen joins Mapbox
Developer Carol Hansen joins the Mapbox team in Washington, DC! Previously, Carol worked in web development, GIS, and volunteered as a developer with Code for Boston, the Boston-based CfA Brigade. She...
View ArticleDrone Adventures Imagery for Tracing in OpenStreetMap: Fukushima + Lima
Drone Adventures released four new UAV imagery layers of their recent deployments for tracing on OpenStreetMap. Three of the maps are from Fukushima, Japan, one from Lima, Peru. This release is part of...
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Mapping an entire city in a day
This is what you get when you combine community, open data, and awesome imagery. In 29 hours 68 contributors mapped an entire city (20,105 buildings):Read more about how OpenStreetMap volunteers led by...
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Creating Maps From Drone Imagery
Here is an end to end walkthrough showing how to process drone imagery into maps and then share it online, all using imagery we collected on a recent flight with the 3D Robotics team and their Aero...
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Women Who Code @Mapbox
Four out of five of our newest team members at Mapbox are amazing women who code. This is awesome, and it’s just the start. We’re growing fast at Mapbox and are looking for talented, hungry women — and...
View ArticleAudiolizing Server Query Rate
Project OSRM is audiolizing the server query rate on our demo site. It’s kind of like a geiger counter for monitoring usage, letting people feel what is happening in an abstracted way. An often...
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Monitoring Oil reserves from Space
Skybox Imaging is making it easy to monitor oil reserves and other resources from space. Oil is typically stored in tanks with roofs that float to avoid breathing and evaporative losses in the space...
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GeoLadies Coffee Break at State of the Map US
Let’s have a GeoLadies get together at State of the Map US this weekend during the coffee break at 3:30 pm on Saturday. Grab a coffee and join us in Room 143 (lunch room). There’s going to amazing...
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