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July New York City Happy Hour
Join us for drinks at 6pm on Monday, July 21st at one of our favorite New York bars, Swift Hibernian Lounge. We’ve been busy since we last met, rolling out our Android SDK, launching Mapbox GL, and...
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Pre-party for the TechLady Summer Hackathon
Come party with us before the TechLady Hackathon! We’re bringing together developers and those who want to learn for a party before a day of learning, teaching, and coding at the hackathon. The party...
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See you at the Open Mapping Happy Hour at Open Knowledge Festival
We’re heading to Open Knowledge Festival in Berlin.Whether you hold a festival pass or not, come and hang out at the Open Mapping Happy Hour with our friends from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team,...
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Discover a run with RunKeeper
We worked with RunKeeper last month to visualize 1.5 million walks, runs, and bike rides. We thought it would be cool to use this same dataset to discover and plan your own route. We worked with...
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Don't fly drones here
Unmanned drones like quadcopters and fixed-wing aircraft are at the center of new airspace regulations by the FAA. While the FAA deliberates on rules and regulations, states, cities and other national...
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Morgan Herlocker joins the team!
Morgan Herlocker has joined Mapbox, working with us from the DC garage. He’s an accomplished geo and JavaScript hacker who is the principal author of Turf, a modular system for geospatial analysis....
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Announcing Mapbox GL for the Web
Announcing Mapbox GL JS — a fast and powerful new system for web maps. Mapbox GL JS is a client-side renderer, so it uses JavaScript and WebGL to dynamically draw data with the speed and smoothness of...
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Mapbox Satellite gets 48TB facelift
We just added 48 terabytes of updated aerial imagery for the entire continental United States. Starting today users will see the updated imagery at zoom levels 13-17 on Mapbox SatelliteMapbox Satellite...
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Mapbox GL video: Drone edition
Video in Mapbox GL: Drone editionThis past weekend I flew my quadcopter over a beach in northern California. At an altitude of 400 feet, the drone recorded video with a GoPro facing downward. I then...
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Launching WorldView-3
The world’s most advanced high-resolution satellite, WorldView-3, will launch tomorrow – operated by DigitalGlobe, our primary provider of high-res imagery. With 31 centimeter (12 inch) resolution, it...
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Want to be part of the team that’s changing the way app makers design and develop maps? Or just enjoy building frameworks for other developers? Or maybe you love graphics programming and squeezing...
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Summertime BBQ at the Mapbox Garage
Next Thursday we’re tapping some kegs and BBQ'ing DC style, with half-smokes on the grill at the Mapbox Garage. We’re getting things started at 6:30 pm and going until late. Hope you can join us! RSVP...
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Karen Shea joins Mapbox
Karen is a designer who immediately impressed us by not being afraid to use GIFs and vanity browser themes in her online porfolio:She is a recent graduate from MICA. A designer by training, we’re...
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Welcome Luis Alanya!
Say hello to Luis Alanya Ortega. Luis is a power OpenStreetMap contributor, and as part of the data team, he improves the map, fixes errors, and adds data. He’s been part of our team for a couple of...
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Mapbox Swag!
Now for your iPhone, shower, and baby’s onesie - welcome to the Mapbox store!… and way more!
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Mapping #Ferguson
The protests and militarized police response have unfolded in real time on Twitter over the last ten days since police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on August...
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Processing Raw NAIP Scenes into Seamless Imagery
We just updated Mapbox Satellite across the continental United States with 48TB of open imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Project (NAIP). The imagery captured by NAIP is incredibly diverse...
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Explore National Parks offline with Chimani and Mapbox Outdoors
Chimani recently launched with Mapbox Outdoors to give hikers detailed trail and elevation data for National Parks. All maps are also available offline. The park data comes from OpenStreetMap, allowing...
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Over 1 million New York City buildings and addresses imported to OpenStreetMap
Over the past year, our data team has worked with the OpenStreetMap community to do a full import of building footprints released as part of New York City’s open data initiative. The result is over 1...
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