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Sajjad Anwar joins Mapbox
Sajjad Anwar aka @geohacker is joining Mapbox. We have known Sajjad for a long time as an open data advocate, programmer and OpenStreetMap expert and I’m excited to welcome him to the team. Before...
View ArticleMapping Global Bandwidth with Turfjs on the Server
Turfjs works everywhere: in browsers,on desktops, and on servers. Here's an example of Turf shining within the server context: mapping global bandwidth. Using node.js,express, and a few modules, we can...
View ArticleUsing Turf with Smart Directions
I just updated last week’s coffee finder with Mapbox Directions. Now you can click on any coffee shop to get an instant route and estimated walking time. Check out our detailed docs to see how you can...
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Make a snowfall map
On the East Coast we’re all suffering from dry skin, a lack of Vitamin D, and media-hyped snowstorms. After any snowstorm comes the final snowfall count - a time to boast over who got more snow.Impress...
View ArticleTurf for transportation
Using Turf alongside the rest of the stack, we built a tool to demonstrate how quickly you can build a transportation app with Mapbox. In this case, we're using data from Washington, D.C.'s Capital...
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GeoBLR February featuring Olacabs
Join us for the upcoming GeoBLR meetup on February 12th to learn how Olacabs manages their real-time location data.Since its inception in 2010, Ola has grown fast making it dead simple to order one of...
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Rasterio binary wheels for OS X
Mac Python users, if you’ve used pip to install Numpy or SciPy from the Python Package Index recently, you may have noticed that it downloads a .whl file and skips all the old familiar compilation...
View ArticleDigitalGlobe imagery uploads
If you're looking to trace villages in OpenStreetMap or count cars in a shopping center parking lot, DigitalGlobe's satellite constellation offers the highest resolution available on the commercial...
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Mapping wind gusts
A ridge of high pressure moves north along the eastern seaboard of North America. Along the front’s leading edge, wind gusts approach 35mph.To make this map, I downloaded High Resolution Rapid Refresh...
View ArticleSF drones and mapping GeoMeetup
Will and I are speaking at tomorrow's SF GeoMeetup on drones, mapping, and our new imagery upload API. Specifically we are showing how to host and serve all types of imagery data and how to build fast...
View ArticleAtmospheric river
View full screen map A moisture-laden atmospheric river is aimed at the Pacific Coast and is slated to bring up to 6 inches of rain to parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. This will be our first rain...
View ArticlePlan a ride with Surface, Directions, and Turf.js
View full-screen demoCity bikeshares are a great way to get around if your town has them. But they're only convenient as long as:There are stations near you and your destination, since you'll be...
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Shravan Shah joins Mapbox
Say hello to Shravan Shah. Shravan’s joining our growing data team in Bengaluru to help us improve map data such as OpenStreetMap based on map user feedback. Before joining Mapbox, Shravan researched...
View ArticleTurf 1.4.0 release
We just released Turf v1.4.0. It includes new features for route analysis, blazing performance, and automatic geometry validation.New Featuresturf.lineSlice for segmenting lines and linear...
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Hello Ruth Maben!
Ruth Maben is joining Mapbox. Ruth is going to be part of a growing team of data analysts in our Bangalore office to help us improve the datasets that power our maps — one of the most important ones...
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Michael Steffen joins Mapbox
Michael Steffen is joining the Mapbox team. Michael will lead Mapbox’s legal work and push on business and strategy, especially around data.Michael comes to Mapbox from the FCC, where he helped lead a...
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Stickshift
Stickshift is a fast and efficient interface that helps you analyze your data in SQL. We built it for Mapbox’s internal metrics data, and today we are releasing it as open source so everyone can take a...
View ArticleTime travel across the Iditarod with Turf
Full Screen The Iditarod is an annual sled dog race that takes place every March in Alaska. At over 1000 miles, and with wind chill tempatures as low as -100 °F, the race tests the endurance of huskies...
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World Agriculture Expo
I’m Tulare-bound today, headed to the World Agriculture Expo to talk with farmers, agtech software companies, drone manufacturers, and imagery providers about the work that we’re doing together in...
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Srividya Bharadwaj joins Mapbox
Srividya Bharadwaj is joining Mapbox as data analyst focusing on improving OpenStreetMap— the free and editable map of the world powering Mapbox Streets.Srividya is a programmer and OpenStreetMap...
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