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Guardian rolls out Mapbox GL
The Guardian just published an amazing interactive regarding immigration on the south Texas border. It’s all powered by the new open-source Mapbox GL JS framework for the web.Hats off to their team...
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Imagery from DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 — now live on Mapbox Satellite
The new imagery coming down from WorldView-3, the satellite that DigitalGlobe launched only two weeks ago, is amazing! And this early imagery is now live on Mapbox Satellite for all Mapbox.com maps....
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OpenStreetMap contributions around the world
By extracting and analyzing historical OpenStreetMap data, we can see the story of contributions to the dataset over time. The number of edits, number of contributors, geographic concentration of...
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Fresh imagery for Australia
An Australian imagery update adds 30 billion fresh pixels to Mapbox Satellite. The new data goes in to zoom level 19, meaning you can count cars and bushes. As always, it’s licensed for OpenStreetMap...
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Transit metrics dashboard
Smartphone-to-car startup Automatic just went live with an analytics dashboard. Automatic is making driving safer and smarter for everyone and their dashboard shows everything about your car’s gas...
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Shiv Ramachandran joins Mapbox
Welcome Shiv! A long-time colleague from the international development space, Shiv started mapping using TileMill 0.4 (old school 2011-style) and now joins us to help grow our data team, expand our...
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Come say hi at FOSS4G!
We’re in Portland this week for the FOSS4G conference and will be hitting up JS.geo and WhereCamp PDX before and after — come say hi! Throughout the week we’ll be talking and giving workshops on Mapbox...
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Matt Irwin joins Mapbox!
Matt Irwin joins the Mapbox team after eight years working as a diplomat with the Department of State. While at State, Matt mediated boundary disputes, negotiated ceasefire agreements, and forged...
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Our imagery processing pipeline at SF GeoMeetup
I’m presenting on our imagery processing pipeline and how we deal with the enormous amount of imagery that we see every day, from satellites to drones, at the Bay Area GeoMeetup, this Thursday the 11th...
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Introducing Mapbox Studio
IntroducingMapbox StudioMapbox Studio, our open source map design platform, launches today across all platforms; Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Studio allows anyone to design radically custom maps,...
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Satellites + Beer + Pizza: Thurs. 9/11 at Mapbox SF
Join us at 6:30pm tomorrow for a GeoMeetup at Mapbox SF to talk Big and Little Satellites, organized by Ragi Burhum and Bronwyn Agrios. Charlie Loyd from our team will be talking about our imagery...
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OpenStreetMap data in Syria
The OpenStreetMap community has mapped more than 43,700 miles of road in Syria. This data is of vital importance to humanitarian workers on the ground. Over just the last three and a half years, the...
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Mapbox goes to Mexico City for Condatos Sep 30 --- Oct 2
Meet us in Mexico City for Condatos, this year’s major Latin American Open Data conference bringing people from all over the continent together around building a better future with open data. We will...
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Duncan Graham joins Mapbox
Duncan is joining the Mapbox design team, coming to us from daytime hours at The Washington Post and nighttime experiments with CSS and JavaScript:Focus and its accompanying tutorial.Duncan will be...
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High resolution prints from Mapbox Studio
With vector tiles, Mapbox Studio maps are print ready. The resolution independence of vector tiles now makes it possible to create a map with flexible resolution appropriate for high quality printing....
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Peter Liu joins Mapbox
We’re excited to welcome Peter to the Mapbox design team, where he will be focusing on map creation tools with an eye for user experience. Peter comes to us from a background in application design and...
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Welcome Danny Aiquipa!
Say hello to Danny Aiquipa. Danny is a power OpenStreetMap contributor. She is excited to join the Mapbox data team working on improving the map, systematically fixing errors, and adding data. For some...
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See you at the Code for America Summit!
We are heading to the Code for America summit next week! The Summit is where cities come to share, inspire, and collaborate around tackling some of the toughest civic challenges with the power of open...
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Design control with regular expressions in Mapbox Studio
With Mapbox Studio, it’s straightforward to apply styles to every building, park, or road label in the world. But sometimes you want more control. Regular expression filters are one way to get control....
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Mapbox Happy Hour: London edition
We’ll be at one of our favorite bars, Strongroom, in London next Friday, September 26th. Swing by to talk maps, satellite imagery, and OpenStreetMap over drinks. You’ll find Alex and Eric at the bar...
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