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Talking time travel at GeoDC
Tonight I’ll be at the March GeoDC meetup to talk about temporal map analysis and map hacking in the 4th dimension. I’ll show some examples of stories you can tell by combining time and other data and...
View ArticleChicago crime data with Turf
Turf can be used on massive datasets using Node.js streams. I was able to process three gigabytes of Chicago crime data from their Socrata portal - all crimes from 2001 to today - for this time-series...
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Inauguramos Mapbox Perú el 17 de Marzo
Les invitamos a la fiesta de inauguración oficial de Mapbox Perú. Tenemos muchos años de estar presente en el Perú — desde que se fundó la empresa antecesora de Mapbox aquí en Ayacucho en 2003. Este...
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Add a third dimension to Mapbox.js with CSS
Our recent Capital Bikeshare post received a lot of Twitter love, particularly for the 3D view of elevation profile. Several people even asked how it was done, so I’ve put together a little guide to...
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See you at FOSS4G in San Francisco!
We’re all booked and ready to head to FOSS4G North America next week in San Francisco. We’re looking forward to catching up with everyone and meeting new people in this fast moving open source...
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Mapbox Education is here!
Students! Teachers! Lend us your ears!Here at Mapbox, we value the creative ways our tools are being used in the classroom. That’s why last week we launched Mapbox Education and made our tools totally...
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Geospatial learning at FOSS4G-NA
FOSS4G-NA 2015 starts today in Burlingame, California, and I could not be more excited. These conferences are such an excellent way to follow the great projects our peers are working on, glean...
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Matching GPS traces to a map
Given a GPS trace, how do you find the matching streets in a given road network? For instance, think of the GPS trace of a taxi making its way through a city. How do you identify the actual streets the...
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Mapbox Mars
We're launching two new maps of Mars with the latest data from NASA & ESA: Mars Satellite and Mars Terrain. We love space, and we think it's amazing how much detail is mapped of our distant...
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Supporting scholars at the OpenStreetMap conference
This year we’re supporting 10 scholars to come to State of the Map US, what will be the largest open mapping conference - and OpenStreetMap conference - of the year. OpenStreetMap is made up of a...
View ArticleMapping extremely dense point data with vector tiles
One of the most challenging geographic data sets I have ever worked with is theNew York taxi trip origins and destinations that Chris Whong obtained through the New York Freedom of Information Law. It...
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Data processing pipelines at FOSS4G
Processing pipelines for large geospatial datasets is a big topic here at FOSS4GNA this year so we’re excited to share our work in two talks today.Wrangling pixels at FOSS4GWednesday March 11, 5-6PM...
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Open Source foundations of Mapbox GL at FOSS4G
Today is the final day of FOSS4G 2015. In the morning session we will share highlights of our work on Mapbox GL. Our talks will focus on the open source software, design, and formats behind our vision...
View ArticleNYC 311 with Turf
In this example, Turf is processing and visualizing the largest historical point dataset on Socrata and data.gov. The interface below visualizes every 311 call in NYC since 2010 from a dataset that...
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Traditional trail design with AllTrails
New AllTrails map designed for outdoor adventuresWith more than 50,000 trails, AllTrails.com guides you to the perfect spot to hike, bike, ski, snowboard, and camp in the backcountry. One million...
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Mapbox Vector Tile Specification adopted by Esri
The Mapbox Vector Tile spec is catching on. We are pleased to announce that Esri is the latest company to embrace this open format for fast and efficient distribution of tiled geodata.Esri made the...
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Maps in your language using Mapbox Studio and OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap allows any map feature to have a name for labeling points, streets and areas on a map. These names can be in any language by use of multilingual name tags.Name tags for the major world...
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Emily McAfee joins the team!
Emily McAfee is joining Mapbox! Emily graduated from General Assembly in Washington, DC where she studied web development. She is diving in on our Upload and Data APIs, working to making them powerful...
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Landsat-live goes live
Today we’re releasing the first edition of Landsat-live, a map that is constantly refreshed with the latest satellite imagery from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite. Landsat 8 data is now publicly available...
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Mapbox workshop at PARISOMA in SF this Monday
This Monday, join us for “Designing and Publishing a Map Product with Mapbox” at PARISOMA in SF! In this 90-minute workshop, we will provide a concise and comprehensive look into building maps with...
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