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Addressing the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug at Mapbox
We have secured our infrastructure from Heartbleed, a serious OpenSSL vulnerability that caused security on most of the internet to virtually evaporate overnight (good post by the New York Times)....
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Map Design SketchUp Plugin
The Mapbox SketchUp Plugin makes it easy to add custom maps or imagery to your SketchUp for more design control. Any map you made in TileMill or on mapbox.com can be added to your to SketchUp...
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500,000 km2 Satellite Imagery Update for OpenStreetMap Tracing
We are starting a massive refresh of Mapbox Satellite, partnering again with our friends at DigitalGlobe— the largest satellite company in the world. We are going to add 500,000 km2 of fresh imagery at...
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Introducing Mapbox Outdoors
Mapbox Outdoors is a beautiful new map made for hiking, running, cycling, skiing, and exploring.Introducing MapboxOutdoorsA beautiful new map designed for outdoor adventures. Mapbox Outdoors is ready...
View ArticleMonitoring nuclear plants with micro-satellites
The IR-40 reactor is shaded red and the heavy water facility is shown with blue markers. The perimeter of the plant is shown in Orange. (Click on button to replay tracing)IR-40 is a nuclear reactor...
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Designing a Map for the Outdoors From the Ground Up
The new Mapbox Outdoors is all about bringing the background forward. Hill shades orient runners, topography lines help hikers judge ascents, roads are designed to overlay GPS tracks from your rides....
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Running maps for RunKeeper
Today RunKeeper.com launched new maps with tens of thousands of new trails on top of detailed terrain with elevation data – exactly how runners want to see their activity mapped. The new details are...
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TileMill adds support for Esri FileGDB format
TileMill now supports reading vector features directly from the proprietary Esri File Geodatabase (FileGDB) format. Interoperability with the FileGDB format is a major advance for Esri users that have...
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Mapbox Launches Smart Directions
Mapbox just launched Smart Directions. Developers can now program routing profiles with the same level of customization that we bring to our map designs. Smart Directions is live in production and...
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Come out and Map: OpenStreetMap Spring #editathon on April 26th
Come out and map on Saturday April 26th for the 2014 OpenStreetMap spring #editathon here at the Mapbox DC office. Editathons are a great way to connect with local mappers over improving OpenStreetMap...
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Secure Maps for Lookout
Lookout, the leader in mobile security, has switched to Mapbox. Trusted for security by over 50 million users worldwide and leveraging the world’s most comprehensive mobile data set, Lookout protects...
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Mapping your moves
Moves, acquired by Facebook this morning, automatically records any walking, cycling, and running you do every day. With a new export feature, your data can be downloaded in a range of formats....
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Help build the future of Android maps
We want to build the best platform maps on Android, and we’re looking for developers to help. A small team at Mapbox has been working on our new Android SDK and has big plans: it’s a completely open...
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Nick Ingalls Joins Mapbox
Nick Ingalls is joining Mapbox. We have been collaborating with Nick in the OpenStreetMap community on projects like the New York City building import and Open Addresses. Nick has been amazing to work...
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Maptime at Mapbox SF next Wednesday
Join us at Mapbox SF on Wednesday, May 7th for Maptime and an evening of learning Leaflet and Mapbox.js. We will kick things off at 6:30pm with a short introduction to mapping with JavaScript and then...
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Foundations - New guides to the Mapbox platform
We’re excited to introduce Mapbox Foundations, a new collection of educational guides for every corner of the Mapbox platform. Foundations is for anyone who wants to learn more about making maps with...
View ArticleTracing Imagery for Geofencing
Factual is tracing millions of new features using Mapbox Commercial Satellite imagery to add even more detailed geographic features to their massive store of location data. Factual consumes Mapbox...
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Offline maps for taxi cabs
Creative Mobile Technologies creates payment, media, and mapping tools for taxi fleets. As their customers are constantly on the move, CMT is now leveraging completely offline Mapbox tiles, stored...
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API for Blackbridge RapidEye Imagery
We have been working with Blackbridge imagery a lot, most recently integrating RapidEye into our Satellite Live pipeline to assist in the search to for flight MH370. Today in Berlin, Eric presented at...
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Earthquake ShakeMap design
Peak ground velocity for the 7.5-magnitude earthquake in Guerrero, Mexico in April.We now support compositing vector tiles - allowing me to style different data sources at once as if the base map and...
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