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Jeremy Stratman joins Mapbox
Jeremy has joined our team! He’ll be working alongside Eric; running logistics, sharpening our business strategies, and supporting everything that comes up on the business side of things.Jeremy is...
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Nikhil Prabhakar joins the team
Nikhil joins the data team to strengthen our work on improving datasets like OpenStreetMap based on satellite imagery and customer feedback.Nikhil is bringing his passion for open source and experience...
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Weather data pipeline
Today we staged our weather processing pipeline for internal testing. Our pipeline converts any live weather data into maps that update in real-time. From NOAA to Forecast.io to The Weather Channel,...
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Custom markers and fresh imagery on Mobile
We just shipped v0.5.1 of our iOS SDK, with new marker support, new imagery, and better polyline annotations. Now you can have OpenGL-based rendering of tens of thousands of markers with any imagery...
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An architecture for fast imagery
We host beautiful imagery tiles — it’s easy to get lost in their visual qualities — and we do it using an efficient image processing pipeline. Imagery tiles served by Mapbox benefit from efficient...
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Meet us at the Esri User Conference!
The Esri UC is taking over San Diego next week and we’ll be camped out at the San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina Sunday 7/19 through Wednesday 7/22. We’re meeting with partners, showing off Mapbox...
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Map of Middle Earth with Mapbox Studio
We recently attempted to recreate the Lord of the Rings map of Middle Earth using Mapbox Studio. Here’s how we did it.Peaks and coastlinesYou can extract particular attributes from OpenStreetMap using...
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Siyu Song joins Mapbox
Say hello to Siyu Song! Siyu has joined our San Francisco office and will work with our engineering team to make our backend systems more robust and efficient.Before joining us, Siyu was a visual...
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Atmospheric correction for Landsat Live
We are building out automatic atmospheric correction to the Landsat Live pipeline, producing a clearer and more vibrant end product. Atmospherically corrected Landsat is not only more beautiful, it...
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Scaling Mapbox infrastructure with DynamoDB Streams
Amazon DynamoDB Streams, which provide a streaming log of events for Amazon DynamoDB, officially launched today, and we’re using them to migrate our primary database to DynamoDB. We’re leaving behind a...
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Your data managed in Esri, beautifully rendered with Mapbox on Web and Mobile
Esri’s adoption of the Mapbox Vector Tile spec opens the larger Mapbox open source toolbox to Esri users. A recent example is this Esri vector tile demo that was created with ArcGIS and rendered with...
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Help build the Mapbox Android SDK
Mapbox Mobile for Android is more than just code. Building an SDK means supporting developers, understanding their use cases, and making sure that our maps are fast and stable on every device. If we do...
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Good Morning Berlin!
In the coming months we will grow our presence in Berlin with a focus on powering Mapbox Directions. If you want to be part of this journey, check out our Jobs page.To celebrate, join us for a Happy...
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Adding Autocomplete: geoc => geocoding
We just launched geocoding autocomplete, delivering a dramatically better geocoding experience. You’ve probably seen autocomplete before when searching a map: as you type in a city name, like...
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Austrian address data is now open
Last week Austria released nationwide address point data under an open license. By the end of the day we had added it to OpenAddresses.io. Since then we’ve loaded and tested the data, and today it went...
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Aarthy Chandrasekhar joins the team
Say hello to Aarthy Chandrasekhar! Aarthy joins us to improve OpenStreetMap and other datasets using a combination of satellite imagery, customer feedback and probe data.Aarthy graduated from Vellore...
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Introducing a totally visual interface for map design
The next release of our map design and data visualization tool, Mapbox Studio, will do away with code-based styling and introduce a totally visual interface. Here’s a video showing off some of the...
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Mapping turn lanes in OpenStreetMap
Complex intersections often involve lane-specific turn restrictions. See for instance these overhead signs on Utah State Route 92, crossing Interstate 15 just south of Salt Lake City.Lane signage on...
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Welcome Daniel!
A warm welcome to Daniel, the newest member to our Directions team! Daniel comes with a deep knowledge of modern and idiomatic C++14, and an interest in geospatial analysis. He will mainly work on the...
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Upload API launches across all Mapbox plans
We just put the finishing touches on the Mapbox Upload API and are taking it out of preview. The API is ready for production and available on every Mapbox plan!Developers can use the Upload API to...
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