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Patrick Niklaus Joins Mapbox
Patrick Niklaus is joining Mapbox. He has worked on great projects before like the alaCarte map renderer. Patrick has been amazing to work with in academia and I’m excited to announce that he is...
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First #MaptimeDC at Mapbox tonight
Maptime is coming to DC with its inaugural meetup today, June 17 at 6:30 in the Mapbox garage. This hands on meetup teaches skills on how to make online maps, no matter your experience level. This...
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Lauren Budorick joins Mapbox
Lauren Budorick is joining the Mapbox team in San Francisco!Lauren is a graduate of Hackbright Academy, where she built an elevation-based running route generator. She’ll be putting her development and...
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Hikable.com launches
Hikable.com just launched, giving hikers step by step trail descriptions and tools for planing trips on detailed terrain map with elevation data. Anyone can now create their own hiking guides on a map...
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Video in Mapbox GL
Embedded videos in maps let you explore content in new and exciting ways. In the past we've shared how easy it is to integrate static imagery from satellites and drones into your maps as well as a...
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1.5 Million Walks, Runs, and Bike Rides
This is what 1.5 million walks, runs, and bike rides look like. The colors of the tracks denote route length, glowing white hot in the places where athletes most often work out. Longer routes over 20...
View Article140,000 Roads and Counting: Continuously Improving OpenStreetMap
In the past months our data team has updated 71,000 roads and added 69,000 new ones to OpenStreetMap. Our work is spanning the entire United States, touching over 80 cities and metropolitan areas so...
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Detailed terrain maps for athletes
Endurance athletes can now see where they’ll be hurting the most as they haul up mountains, run through canyons, or power through the water with the new app, Compete Hub. Maps are huge for triathletes...
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Mapbox for Android Happy Hour
Join us for happy hour at Mapbox SF on June 26th at 6pm and learn everything about Mapbox maps on Android. Just last month we launched the Mapbox Android SDK. This Thursday you’ll have the chance to...
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New York City taxi trips
For several years, taxis in New York City have had GPS receivers to record the location of the start and end of every trip, but the data has never been made available to the general public. Chris Whong...
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30 Million Open Addresses Mapped
OpenAddresses is amazing data for geocoding and map making. We wanted to make a map of all 30 million addresses to get an idea of how much coverage there already is and which areas are missing. What we...
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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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Tracking Orders Live with Instacart
Watch your groceries travel right to your doorstep with Instacart’s live map view. The San Francisco-based grocery delivery service is now operating in 10 cities nationwide and has begun using the...
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Importing data into the Mapbox editor now supports geocoding
You can now drag & drop spreadsheet files on the Mapbox editor and we’ll automatically turn placenames into points on a map! Ever since we launched the improved editor on Mapbox.com, we’ve noticed...
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FontFont and Mapbox Studio
Here is a little preview of some of the new fonts from our friends at FontFont that we are going to include in the next version of Mapbox Studio:FF KievitFF Market & FF ClanFF Mister K & FF...
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Will Snook Joins Mapbox
Developer Will Snook joins the Mapbox mobile team! Will has been leading development on MBXMapKit for the past few months after spending some time with it and our iOS SDK on client projects in the past...
View ArticleMeet up at AWS Summit NYC on Thursday
Mapbox will be in New York on Thursday for AWS Summit at the Javits Center. If you’re attending the conference or just in the area, let’s grab a coffee. Ping me @willwhitedc.Also, don’t miss my talk at...
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Print maps: Tall stuff visible from Boulder, Colorado
Here’s a typical example of what the horizon might look like across an intersection or parking lot as you walk around Boulder, Colorado:The picture above shows Bear Peak, the Flatirons, and Green...
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Status San Francisco: Complete
This week, the data team finished adding buildings in San Francisco to OpenStreetMap. Since January, we have added or updated over 152,022 building polygons based on San Francisco building footprint...
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Designer Tatiana Van Campenhout joins the team!
Tatiana is a designer and illustrator who alongside making crazy animated GIFs brings an amazing ability to communicate product.She is a graduate student from Howest College in Kortrijk, Belgium....
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