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Cloudless Atlas with Landsat
This is a peek at the next release of our Cloudless Atlas release that the satellite team is prepping. Our goal is simple: to create cloud-free imagery mosaics from satellite imagery at ever higher...
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Washington Post Goes MapBox to Heat Map DC's Gun Seizures
The Washington Post used MapBox maps to build a fantastic interactive visualization of gun seizures in the District of Columbia and suburban Prince George’s County since 2000. Using a heat map on top...
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MeatText Arrives on Android
MeatText is an app that allows you to quickly share your location with friends, even if they don’t have the app! You can even customize the map style and animated icon to share your location with...
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Previewing User Interface Improvements in iD Version 1.1
Now that iD, the open source map editor, is live on OpenStreetMap.org we are investing in the details to make editing the map even easier and more intuitive. We are days away from the new release of iD...
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See the Freshness of OpenStreetMap Data
The colors in this map of the United States indicate how recently each road has been edited in OpenStreetMap: the oldest data in yellow, the newest in magenta, along a spectrum from Charlie’s sinebow...
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We're Supporting OpenStreetMap's Funding Drive for New Servers
We are supporting the OpenStreetMap Foundation’s $60,000 (£40,000) funding drive for new server infrastructure with a contribution of $20,000. If you hold a stake in OpenStreetMap large or small, we...
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Processing Landsat 8: First Look at the Northeast Mediterranean
Lake Burdur and Acıgöl, Turkey · Landsat 8 The new Landsat 8 imagery from USGS is amazing. We’re using the Aegean Sea and the western part of Turkey as a test area to look at adding it to MapBox...
View ArticleWWDC 2013 Whiskey Geo Hour
If you’re at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco next week, you’re invited to the WWDC Whiskey Geo Hour (WWGH) on Tuesday, June 11.(See a bigger map)Join MapBox for whiskey...
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State of the Map US in San Francisco this Weekend!
Over the next two days a good portion of the MapBox team is headed to San Francisco for OpenStreetMap’s annual U.S. conference. This year’s State of the Map US conference has come together to be one of...
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Dennis Luxen Joins MapBox
Dennis Luxen, the lead developer of Open Source Routing Machine, a high-performance routing engine, is joining the MapBox team. Dennis is an algorithm engineer at heart and just completed his PhD in...
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Mapping the NSA's Secret Data Center on OpenStreetMap
One of the most interesting new data centers in the world is under construction right now in Utah, just south of Salt Lake City. Despite being publicly owned, and one of the largest of its kind...
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Tuning OpenStreetMap Editing: iD Editor 1.1
Just in time for State of the Map US this weekend, we’ve released a new version of the OpenStreetMap editor, iD version 1.1 beta. From new UI refactoring, to workflow improvements, to performance...
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The 2013 OpenStreetMap Data Report
Today we are launching the 2013 OpenStreetMap Data Report, a beautiful and deep exploration of OpenStreetMap’s incredible momentum, its data and contributors. This report comes in time for State of the...
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Post-Conference Happy Hour Tonight in San Francisco
We’re throwing a round for everyone still in town after State of the Map USHere at the hub, the State of the Map US sprint day is in full swing. After a day full of hands-on updates to OpenStreetMap,...
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Photos from State of the Map US
The annual US-based OpenStreetMap conference took place this weekend in San Francisco, bringing out 380+ people to connect over OpenStreetMap. A good crew from MapBox was there talking about the iD...
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GitHub Adds Maps
GitHub adds maps! Today’s launch allows any GeoJSON file hosted on GitHub to be rendered as a fully interactive visualization on top of a custom map designed to let the data stand out. Github is taking...
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Putting Landsat 8’s Bands to Work
Here’s picture of LA, just like an ordinary digital camera would take (if it had ten times as many megapixels and were in space). The image is only two weeks old, taken from Landsat 8, launched by NASA...
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The iD Map Editor is Translated Into Thirty Languages
The iD map editor for OpenStreetMap is available in more than thirty languages thanks to a dedicated team of translators.
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Hacking the Red Planet in San Francisco
I'm headed to San Francisco, CA, this week to join other developers, designers, scientists, educators, and even astronauts at the Teaching Mars Hackathon.Where Curiosity May Roam, NASA/JPL/University...
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Processing Landsat 8 Using Open-Source Tools
This step-by-step post walks through processing Landsat 8 imagery into an interactive map that you can integrate into your website or app. We’ll cover the process from finding and downloading the image...
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