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Rand McNally: a new map and a peek into the design process
Rand McNally just rolled out a beautiful new map that makes the atlas that you grew up with in your glove compartment the atlas on your iPad. The 158-year-old company defined an era of cartography – we...
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Every feature as a dot, down to street level
I visualized every feature, down to street level, with dots:Europe I love how early European maps are shaped by the decisions of the creator more than by data. Look at the way the different "layers"...
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Improved code search in Mapbox Studio
The latest version of Mapbox Studio comes with a range of small UI improvements, including a more intuitive CartoCSS code search to make styling a little easier:The search bar now informs you if there...
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Roadtrippers' New Trip Planning
Roadtrippers just made it ridiculously it easy to throw more adventure into your drive with their brand new app launch, now with hotter maps that fit their brand and Smart Directions. Plug in a...
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Making the most detailed tweet map ever
I’ve been tracking geotagged tweets from Twitter’s public API for the last three and a half years. There are about 10 million public geotagged tweets every day, which is about 120 per second, up from...
View ArticleMaps primed for real estate
Every real estate site needs a map, but most property maps show cluttered pins on small thumbnail maps that don’t help people understand what it is that makes that location special. People want to be...
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COFFEEDEX: Super simple editing on OpenStreetMap
When we built iD, the default OpenStreetMap editor, we made sure we could recombine its parts to create a new wave of experimental, minimal, and unusual editors. OSM is more than a map, and more than...
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Happy hour: Mapbox for government
Coming to DC for the Esri Federal GIS Conference in February? Join us for happy hour and lightning talks on Mapbox for government. We’ll walk through our mapping platform, how to design powerful custom...
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Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Bloomberg New Energy Finance relaunched their Energy Asset maps to visualize everything from power plant capacity to distribution of gas pipelines and biofuel production. The map starts with macro,...
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Mapbox terrain data update
We just pushed a huge data update to Mapbox Outdoors, increasing terrain resolution across nearly 70 countries and significantly improving our map design. Check out the side-by-side comparison showing...
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Terrain in Mapbox Studio
Yesterday’s huge update to Mapbox Terrain all plugs into Mapbox Studio.First thing you’ll want to is open the Layers panel of your Mapbox Studio style project and click the Change Source button. Edit...
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Hello Andrey Golovin!
Say hello to Andrey Golovin! Andrey is an incredibly active mapper with some 4,200 edits on OpenStreetMap, and he is active in his home community in Ukraine, where he has helped put the entire 1...
View ArticleStyling maps for transportation
London We've open-sourced a new map style, Emerald, that you can download and edit in Mapbox Studio right now. Alongside roads and our new Outdoors data that features high-zoom terrain, we've added...
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Ski maps
The Winter Wonderland style is now updated with the new terrain data released last week. The super detailed-terrain brings more defined mountainsides and elevations to the snow-covered map. Andreas...
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Using Github for your map design workflow
This week we open sourced two gorgeous Studio styles: Emerald and Winter Wonderland. I decided to grab one of these styles and make it my own.I opened up Emerald’s repository, forked it to my Github...
View ArticleSuperpowering Runkeeper's 1.5 Million Walks, Runs, and Bike Rides
View more citiesView full screen map Using the new vector rendering capabilities of Tippecanoe, we were able to revisit our map of 1.5 million walks, runs, and bike rides with data from our friends at...
View ArticleSpace Station style ready for lift-off
Earlier this year, Eleanor Lutz designed the stunning map style Space Station. We’re happy to announce that it’s now available for all Mapbox Studio missions.ParisAfter you download the style, make it...
View ArticleTurf: GIS for web maps
Turf is GIS for web maps. It’s a fast, compact, and open-source JavaScript library that implements the most common geospatial operations: buffering, contouring, triangular irregular networks (TINs),...
View Article2014 Berlin in High-Res
2014 Berlin in High-Res We just updated Berlin, Germany in Mapbox Satellite with a fresh set of high-resolution orthoimagery captured earlier this year. The 20 cm imagery was taken during the winter...
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Lyzi Diamond Joins!
We’re thrilled to welcome Lyzi to the Mapbox team! As a co-founder of the geo education-focused Maptime meetup series and a longtime OpenStreetMap contributor, we have no doubt she’ll continue to stir...
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