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Mining Probe Data
Probe data is the byproduct of sensors and applications: hidden in logs, pings, and metadata lie tiny morsels of information like position and time. Individually, every record has little meaning, but...
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Make a map Bengaluru!
Come out to our new office in Bengaluru on Saturday, February 28th for an afternoon workshop to learn how to create your own maps from scratch. We’ll be working with OpenStreetMap, Mapbox Studio and...
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DSCOVR: a new view of Earth
At sunset on Wednesday, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) lifted off from Cape Canaveral and started its long trip toward the sun. It will give us never-before-seen views of Earth.Liftoff of...
View ArticleImproving OpenStreetMap with Mexico's new open data
Versión en español abajo.In November the Mexican statistical institute INEGI opened all its data under permissive terms. Here is a first look at INEGI’s road data. It holds huge potential for improving...
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Arun Ganesh joins Mapbox
Arun Ganesh is joining Mapbox. Arun is an interaction designer, programmer and according to Pascal Neis' OpenStreetMap profiles — a crazy mapper booking more than 7,000 edits on OpenStreetMap. He is an...
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Bengaluru office opening party February 26!
We’ve been heads down over the past months setting up shop in the tech capital of India. Our preparation work is entering the home stretch now with moving into our new office space and a kick off...
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Mapping turn restrictions and speed limits with Mapillary
Mapillary coverage is growing fast and the collected imagery is great for mapping turn restrictions and speed limits in OpenStreetMap. Here’s howThe Mapillary team is moving fast, the recently added...
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Customization and support for arbitrary feature types in iD
The OpenStreetMap iD editor provides powerful map editing in the browser with an emphasis on great user experience. It’s a great tool in its own right, so the Moabi initiative decided to use it. Moabi...
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Rethinking data + design
Connecting custom data to design has always been a confusing and difficult part of making maps. You need to grapple with file formats, projections, weak metadata, and multiple applications just to put...
View ArticleStartups support net neutrality
We strongly support the framework on net neutrality rules currently before the Federal Communications Commission, including the use of Title II to put the new rules on solid legal footing.We’re built...
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Streamlining map feedback
On every Mapbox map you will see an “Improve this map” link, letting anyone quickly share feedback and make the map better. We’ve now made it even simpler to submit feedback — reducing the number of...
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Atlas Server now available on the AWS Marketplace
Atlas Server is now available in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace, the app store for pre-configured EC2 instances. It takes one click to spin up the Atlas Server via the AWS Marketplace. From there...
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Mapping turn restrictions and speed limits with Mapillary
Mapillary coverage is growing fast and their team is adding exciting new features like traffic sign recognition this week. The ability to use Mapillary imagery for OpenStreetMap is particularly...
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Maptime in Oklahoma City on Monday
On Monday at noon I’m hosting the first ever Maptime in Oklahoma City. With Maptime in OKC, we’re following the Maptime tradition of creating a shared space for mappers of all skill levels to learn...
View ArticleUpload twice as much imagery with BigTIFF
In January we increased the file upload limit for imagery from 260 MB to 4 GB. Now, we're increasing the limit on TIFF files again, to 10 GB. This allows you to upload even more detailed satellite and...
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Welcome Vanessa!
A big welcome to Vanessa, who has joined the Mapbox team! She’ll be on operations, supporting our growing team across four offices and five time zones - making sure we nail the logistics across them...
View ArticleAnimated heatmaps and grids with Turf
The latest release of Turf includes powerful new functions to aggregate dense point data into grids & heatmaps. In this example, I aggregated and classified hail data for 1955 to 2013 and created...
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The first ten years of OpenStreetMap
In the first 10 years of OpenStreetMap, hundreds of thousands of people have mapped 25 million miles of roads in every country in the world. Here is a look back at how the most detailed map of the...
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Minh Nguyễn joins Mapbox
Minh Nguyễn just joined the Mapbox team, bringing years of experience in open data communities and software engineering. He’s hacking on Mapbox GL and our iOS tools and will be reaching into many...
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BlackBridge country mosaics on Atlas Server
All full-country imagery mosaics from BlackBridge can now plug into Atlas Server. You can be serving your BlackBridge imagery of an entire country from your private cloud or on-premise in a matter of...
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