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MapTab: A Chrome extension for viewing beautiful maps
MapTabI open new browser tabs every few minutes and didn’t want to look at a blank page anymore, so I built MapTab: a Chrome extension for viewing beautiful maps when opening a new tab.Many tabs, many...
View ArticleMapping train tracker data to help understand the Amtrak derailment
Although the formal investigation is still in progress, Amtrak’s real-time train tracker provides some information about what happened in yesterday’s tragic derailment. Every several minutes, Amtrak’s...
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Chau Nguyen joins the team
Chau Nguyen is the newest member of the Mapbox team. She is currently completing her Master’s degree at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany. Chau brings her passion for graph...
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Announcing Mapbox Mobile
Mapbox Mobile just launched on iOS! The open source SDK lets developers add beautiful maps to their apps. Mapbox’s Cocoa Touch API works just like Apple MapKit: swap out MKMapView for MGLMapView and...
View ArticleBicycle routing on Mapbox Directions
We love cycling at Mapbox and most of our team bikes to the office. That’s why we’re excited to launch worldwide bicycle routing on Mapbox Directions. You can use the API to request routes and...
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Geomeetup tonight at Mapbox SF: geospatial disaster response
Join us tonight for May’s SF GeoMeetup, with a panel on Geospatial Disaster Response. Doors open at 6:45pm at the Mapbox SF office.Our very own @camillacaros will be speaking on Mapbox’s response, in...
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Scott Andrews joins team Mapbox
Scott Andrews has joined team Mapbox! Scott previously worked at Flux.io where he was lead developer on the Metro project. Flux Metro is an app for better understanding development codes.At Mapbox,...
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Building Mapbox Mobile For Android
Mapbox Mobile is more than just iOS; we’re also actively working on bringing all of the styling flexibility, video game-quality OpenGL rendering, app analytics, and open code and data to Android, too....
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Mapbox at International Open Data Conference this week
Tom Lee (@tjl) and I will each be speaking at International Open Data Conference 2015 in Ottawa on Thursday and Friday of this week.On Thursday, 1:30 pm EST I’ll be answering questions as part of the...
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Jake Pruitt joins our team
Jake Pruitt is now a part of the Mapbox team! Jake comes to us from Tempe, Arizona where he’s studying economics, computer science and mathematics at ASU. Jake will be using his knowledge of Node.js to...
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Location analytics for iOS
Mobile location analytics are built into every developer’s account using the Mapbox Mobile iOS SDK, for free. The analytics dashboard is designed to for developers see how, when, and most importantly...
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Lucas Wojciechowski joins Mapbox
Lucas Wojciechowski just joined Mapbox! Lucas was an early adopter of Mapbox GL, which he used to create beautiful trail maps at Scree Maps. He’s a graduate of the Software Engineering program at the...
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WWDC 2015 Mapbox Mobile kickoff party
Are you in San Francisco for the epicenter of everything Apple next week? Come join us at our beautiful office just steps from Moscone for a kickoff party on Monday night from 6 to 8pm.RSVP hereWe’ve...
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Alice Kuo joins Mapbox
Say hello to Alice Kuo! Alice has joined our business team working out of San Francisco.Alice will work across Mapbox to ask and answer tough questions about our business as we grow. Before joining us,...
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Mapbox GL running on the Qt Framework
We’ve written Mapbox GL with portability in mind. Last weekend I used a rainy summer day to prove the point and integrated Mapbox GL into the popular Qt framework.Getting vector tiles rendered in a...
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Maya Gao joins Mapbox
Maya Gao just joined the design team at Mapbox! Her amazing ability to create beautiful, intuitive interfaces will help us improve the user experience on Mapbox.com and across all of our tools.Maya...
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Speed optimizations to Terrain
Today’s update to Terrain has insane speed optimizations using Mapnik’s new geometry simplifications. The terrain vector tiles are now anywhere from 8 to 80% leaner. This directly translates to faster...
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Better label placement for Mapbox Mobile
Our algorithm now adds more labels in more places to make every view clear. Labels can’t just look good. They also need to react instantly to every pinch and rotation. Performance optimizations will...
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Supporting ProjectCSGIRLS and the next generation of women in tech
When I joined Mapbox over a year and a half ago, our thirty-odd person team included just two other women (making us about 9% female). Now our rapidly-growing team is over 30% female, thanks to the...
View ArticleMetadata vector tiles for imagery
Now every Landsat scene passing through our image processing pipeline generates a vector tile footprint with metadata of the scene ID, when the image was captured, and when it was processed.The...
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