Jason Wray joins Mapbox
Jason Wray just joined the Mapbox team! Jason stands with one foot in mobile, one in support, to help our customers take advantage of Mapbox GL in their mobile apps. He’ll be building example apps,...
View ArticleAmbient light sensors and Mapbox Mobile
Mapbox Mobile lets you style every element of the map to your exact specifications. Making a map that matches your company’s identity and that looks great is simple, but it’s also possible to push...
View ArticleCustomizing topographical networks for routing with OpenStreetMap data
OpenStreetMap describes real world features with key=value tags. At the time of writing it has 74,029,011 distinct tags. That’s a lot of different ways to describe the world around us. Pop quiz: say...
View ArticleBuilding the whole mapping stack
Building the whole mapping stackWe're creating the building blocks for a complete mapping stack. This extends way beyond a map. Today we closed $52.55 million in Series B financing to enable us to...
View ArticleDon Drummond joins Mapbox
A big welcome to Don, the latest addition to our operations team. Don’s an accountant with a passion for knowing exactly what makes a business tick. At Mapbox, he analyzes our financial systems, tracks...
View ArticleMapbox Mobile with polylines
We’re continuing to move fast with the new Mapbox Mobile and are proud to announce polyline and polygon support. Now your apps can plot directions, regions, user traces, and all sorts of other...
View Article$20,000 for OpenStreetMap Infrastructure
We’re supporting the OpenStreetMap Foundation’s £56,000 funding drive with $20,000. Together with other contributions, 90% of the fundraising target has been met at this point. Help grow OpenStreetMap...
View ArticleNew Features in Mapbox GL JS
We’re building Mapbox GL for mobile and web simultaneously, and in addition to last week’s release of Mapbox GL for iOS, we released Mapbox GL JS version 0.8.1, with some exciting new features,...
View ArticleJinal Foflia joins team Mapbox
Jinal Foflia has joined our team! She will focus on creating and improving map data on platforms like OpenStreetMap based on satellite imagery, customer feedback and automated error monitoring.Jinal...
View ArticlePratik Yadav joins Mapbox
Pratik is the newest member of our data team. He focuses on improving OpenStreetMap data using a combination of satellite imagery, customer feedback, and probe data.Prior to joining Mapbox, he was...
View ArticleSupporting App Camp For Girls
We are proud to support App Camp For Girls, a non-profit that organizes summer day camps for girls entering eighth and ninth grades, teaching them how to build iOS apps in an environment filled with...
View ArticleMapping Uttarakhand
In Delhi next week? Join us and other OpenStreetMap enthusiasts from DataMeet and the Akvo Foundation on July 4 to map some of the most vulnerable places in Uttarakhand, India. We will start with a...
View ArticleCreating rainbow borders with Mapbox Studio
In celebration of today’s historic SCOTUS ruling on same-sex marriage, let’s use Mapbox Studio to create a map with rainbow borders! (Special thanks to MaptimeAMS for creating the base style for this...
View ArticleVirginia Yung joins Mapbox
A warm welcome to Virginia Yung! Virginia is joining the Mapbox SF office, working on image processing with the satellite team. As a mathematician with a passion for data science and visual products,...
View ArticleJacques Tardie joins Mapbox
Welcome Jacques Tardie, the newest member of the Mapbox satellite team! With a background in biology, data management and web mapping, Jacques is helping to build scalable image processing systems on...
View ArticleBruno Abinader joins Mapbox
Bruno Abinader joins Mapbox to help develop the best mapping library for mobile and the web. Bruno is bringing his vast experience working on browser engines like Blink and Servo to the team. He is...
View ArticleJuly GeoDC featuring OpenAddresses
July’s edition of the GeoDC meetup is all about open location data: addresses, traffic, and demography. Come check out the talks and mingle with DC’s liveliest geo crowd this Wednesday, July 8 at...
View ArticleSnapping noisy GPS traces with map matching
We just launched the Map Matching API. The API allows for cleaning noisy GPS traces by matching them against Mapbox Streets - all over a simple HTTP interface. It is powered by the Open Source Routing...
View ArticleSpreading the map love in India
Whether it’s in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Ayacucho, or Bengaluru, there’s always something cooking at Mapbox. In Bengaluru, July is shaping up to be an exciting month. After returning the most...
View ArticleNew AWS Marketplace listing for Atlas Server
Today we’re rolling out a new version of Mapbox Atlas Server on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace that let’s your purchase and run your own Mapbox map servers inside your private cloud with just a...
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