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Richman Pariona joins Mapbox
Richman Pariona joins the Mapbox data team! Before Richman joined he was researching traffic patterns in his home town of Ayacucho, Peru and creating software solutions for small businesses. He is now...
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Custom Imagery in Mongolia for the Asia Foundation
The hills around Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, are dotted with large, unplanned settlements known as ger districts. Mongolians from rural areas have moved to these communities, which are connected by an...
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Raster imagery to Mapbox in one step
You can now add any GeoTIFF imagery from satellites, airplanes, and drones directly to your account on Mapbox.com. Just upload your GeoTIFF file (up to 260 MB) to your Mapbox Standard or above account...
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Winter Wonderland
Summer is officially over and we’re ready to get outside in the upcoming season with a custom winter-themed map. Built on top of Mapbox Outdoors, we have made a few changes to help people as they head...
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Circa News: On-brand in mobile
Circa News just hit 3.0, now with hot new maps! We loved working with the Circa team as they deployed across both Android and iOS platforms for a unified experience. Circa CEO and co-founder Matt...
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Aerial + drone + satellite imagery internship
We’re going to ingest billions of new pixels from aerial, drone, and satellite sources into Mapbox Satellite and other imagery-based products. We’re looking for creative coders with strong research and...
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New imagery of Mexico City for Condatos
We’re joining open data advocates from all over Latin America at Condatos next week in Mexico City. Check out the agenda for great talks and workshops. I’ll be leading a discussion on using drones for...
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Designing a Pencil-drawn style in Mapbox Studio
Pencil is one of the 12 example styles included with Mapbox Studio, providing a hand-drawn pencil-on-paper look for a map of the whole world. The style is made up largely of image patterns, so most of...
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Katy DeCorah joins Mapbox
Katy DeCorah is joining the Mapbox team! Katy will be jumping into coding and design. I’m excited to be working with Katy to improve our tools and communicate with you about all the cool things you can...
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Audience-focused documentation
We’re doing a documentation push and now let you self-identify what kind of docs and notifications you get when you sign up. If you already have an account and want to fill out the form, there’s a...
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Emoji Map Markers
It’s my first week at Mapbox. As I’ve been exploring Mapbox.js and trying to learn what’s possible, I wondered about map markers. I couldn’t help but think about , , , and . And sure, the more...
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Hello Tom Lee!
Tom Lee has joined Mapbox! Tom comes to us from the Sunlight Foundation where he led the labs team in building technology for a more open government with projects like Open States, Clearspending and...
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Welcome Cathryn Stickel!
A big welcome to Cathryn Stickel, who is joining Mapbox to support our overall operations and our team as we keep growing fast. She comes to us from FrontlineSMS, where she helped transition from a...
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Join The Mapbox Directions Team
We’re building a routing service unlike any other and we want your help to develop it. It is flexible, fast, and customizable for every use case, from finding a path up a mountain, driving across the...
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Predicting data curation in OpenStreetMap
Our data team is now using our cumulative statistics to predict areas that need better tracing in OpenStreetMap. The world is huge, how do you find out where the map needs improvement? You can’t look...
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Alison Anthes joins Mapbox
Alison Anthes has joined the Mapbox team! We’re excited to have Ali on board, playing a dual role of account manager and support, bringing new users on to Mapbox and helping existing ones better use...
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Walking directions API
Smart Directions is getting a huge upgrade, more than just helping people move around their city in cars and scooters— we now have walking directions, today in private beta. Our friends at RunKeeper...
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DroneDeploy powered by Mapbox Upload API
DroneDeploy’s cloud-based drone management and imagery processing makes it simple to plan a mapping mission, launch the UAV, collect imagery, transmit data to the cloud for processing, and receive high...
View ArticleVideos from FOSS4G and JS.Geo
The recent open source geo-week in Portland, Oregon was a big hit and we’re happy to share our videos and slides that are now online. Here’s a quick recap of our talks at the FOSS4G and JS.geo...
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Two step verification
Mapbox now offers an additional level of security for your account: Two-step verification. Once enabled, you’ll be prompted to enter a security code generated by your mobile device each time you...
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