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MapBox Streets in Español + Français
MapBox Streets is now also available in Spanish and French, in addition to English and local languages. Just click on the “customize” tab to pick your language!
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San Francisco State of the Map T-Shirt
I just finished the new t-shirt design for this year’s US OpenStreetMap conference – State of the Map– taking place in in San Francisco, CA, June 7-10. btw, today is the last day for early bird...
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Tibetan Plateau: Jewel Toned Lakes #CloudlessAtlas
The Tibetan Plateau. The plateau itself is covered in irregular hills, and its western half has no river drainage, so rainfall forms large lakes. They are called jewel-toned lakes for the colors of the...
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Photos from Open Government Happy Hour
On Friday, we hosted an Open Government happy hour in the MapBox Garage to kick off Transparency Camp 2013, an unconference organized by The Sunlight Foundation. Over 200 of our friends from across the...
View ArticleVector Tiles Preview: Designing the World with TileMill2
A peek over AJ’s shoulder while he uses an early internal preview of TileMill 2, 100% powered by our new vector tile stack developed by Dane, Artem, and Young.We’re combining TileMill’s deep design...
View ArticleNew Map Editor Launches on OpenStreetMap.org
Today iD, a modern in-browser map editor, launches on OpenStreetMap.org. This editor is a critical update to OpenStreetMap’s tool set and it is designed to radically improve the first-time editing...
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24 Hours of new OpenStreetMap Users
After yesterday’s launch of iD, a new editor for OpenStreetMap.org, the number of users making their first edit to OpenStreetMap more than quadrupled.
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Launching MapBox Earth
We just launched MapBox Earth, a free and open source iOS app that combines the power of a 3D globe with MapBox’s beautiful maps. It’s also a great starting point to build your own 3D mapping app -...
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Spotting Deforestation from Space – in Madagascar
This is the lower Mangoky river, southwest Madagascar, as seen with the EVI2 vegetation index as derived from data collected by NASA’s MODIS sensors in 2011 and 2012. To the south of the river’s mouth,...
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Vector Tiles for MapBox Streets
MapBox has developed an open source vector format to power the future of our web maps. Vector tiles rethink web maps from the ground up, providing a single efficient format to power raster tiles,...
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Users editing OSM worldwide with iD
After iD’s launch on OpenStreetMap.org last week, many new and existing users tried it out and started editing the worldwide map.
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Huge MapBox Satellite Update: Cloudless Atlas + US & EU Aerial +...
As Wired and FastCo just reported, we’ve pushed a huge update to MapBox Satellite today. Not only did we just launch our new Cloudless Atlas imagery for the entire world (down through zoom level 8), we...
View ArticleAWS User Group Road Trip
MapBox makes use of Amazon’s high-performance cloud infrastructure in order to scale quickly with demand and avoid single points of failure. So when Amazon’s Jeff Barr announced that he was driving...
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Q&A: City Guides by National Geographic
Today’s release of the gorgeous City Guides by National Geographic mobile app showcases the perfect marriage of expansive content, a high level of attention to detail and polish, and the flexibility of...
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Inkscape and MapBox for Interactive, Illustrated maps
We recently relaunched the MapBox product tour, and part of that redesign includes a custom map showing off our server infrastructure:Even though this map began its life as a vector illustration in...
View ArticleNew York City Happy Hour at Swift Bar
With our releases of Vector tiles, a cloudless world, and a brand new way to edit OpenStreetMap, we’ve been busy this last month.If you’re in New York City on Thursday, May 30th, join us for drinks to...
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Headed to San Francisco for State of the Map US
In a little over two weeks many folks on the MapBox team will head to San Francisco for the annual US-based OpenStreetMap conference. We’re gearing up for an interesting and productive trip and are...
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Look for Us @Foss4GNA Today and Tomorrow
Today and tomorrow, Justin, Tom, AJ, Eric and myself are at Foss4GNA in Minneapolis.We’re looking forward to two great days of catching up with the open source spatial community and talking about our...
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Capturing the Impact of the Oklahoma Tornado
We’ve partnered with USA Today to visualize the impact of Monday’s tornado in Oklahoma. The Civil Air Patrol conducted flyovers, capturing aerial images immediately after the storm. The images captured...
View ArticleBefore & After of the Moore, OK Tornado
Thanks to open aerial imagery provided by the U.S. Government and our MapBox.js javascript library, we can now see -- in stunning high resolution -- the impact of Monday's tornado on the city of Moore,...
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