Elevation-aware routing profiles in Mapbox Directions
We’re building support for external raster data sources in OSRM. This will unlock countless possibilities in OSRM — most immediately for us it means the ability to run elevation-aware routing profiles,...
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Come party before the TechLady Hackathon
We’re hosting the pre-party for the TechLady Hackathon, a full day of training, workshops, and hacking for women who want to beef up their coding skills and teach others what they know. Join us at the...
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Open source mapping classes at the International Institute of Information...
This Monday we will kick off three classes on OpenStreetMap, QGIS and Mapbox tools at the International Institute for Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B).The program is designed to introduce...
View ArticleHappy Hour in Karlsruhe
Next week the Directions Team of Mapbox will be in Karlsruhe again. Come and join us for a round of drinks on the house at Der Vogelbräu on Tuesday August 18th 2015 starting 19:00 to discuss...
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Welcome Max Sirenko
Max Sirenko has joined the Mapbox team in San Francisco! After years on Wall Street and Sand Hill Road, Max is going to strengthen our business strategy and help more people discover Mapbox. Welcome, Max!
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Summer BBQ at the Garage
It’s that time again! Join us next Thursday for our annual Summer BBQ - we’ll have half smokes on the grill, bubbly water, and beer on tap. Stop by the Garage anytime after 6:30 to say hello! RSVP here.
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Jessi Mann joins Mapbox!
Meet Jessi, the newest member of the Operations team in DC! She will be supporting our entire team, building our internal systems to help us grow and leading out special projects.Before Mapbox, Jessi...
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Seamless, cloudless, haze-free DigitalGlobe +Vivid
DigitalGlobe is uploading petabytes of some of the most beautiful imagery we’ve ever seen. With no seams, clouds, or haze, their +Vivid country mosaics cover the majority of the world’s land mass. And...
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New turn restrictions on Market Street
On Tuesday the Safer Market Street Restrictions went into effect in San Francisco, adding 14 new turn restrictions onto Market Street in downtown San Francisco between 3rd and 8th Streets. Drivers can...
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Code & Coffee at the Mapbox Garage
Join us at the garage this Sunday, August 23, from 2-5pm for Code & Coffee, a bi-weekly meetup organized by DCFemTech. Bring a project to rock out on and meet and collaborate with other women in...
View ArticleMapbox for iOS with storyboards and Swift
Mapbox for iOS is our fully native library for enhancing iOS apps with OpenGL-powered Mapbox maps. We’re building Mapbox for iOS on a cross-platform core, but we also made sure to adapt the library to...
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You may just have updated the map with your RunKeeper route
You may just have updated OpenStreetMap simply by sharing a route on RunKeeper. We’ve partnered with RunKeeper to update our OpenStreetMap based maps with routes from athletes all over the world. We...
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Oindrila Gupta joins Mapbox
Oindrila Gupta is the newest member of our data team in Bangalore. She will be focusing on adding and improving content on OpenStreetMap based on satellite imagery, customer feedback and automated...
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Dan Swick joins Mapbox!
Meet Dan, the newest member of the Support team in SF! Dan comes to the team with a deep background in environmental science, community outreach, and project management. Dan has worked on desktop and...
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Welcome Rebecca Goberstein
Welcome, Rebecca Goberstein!Rebecca has joined the team in San Francisco and you will be hearing from her as she gets the word out about new tech and helps developers use the Mapbox platform. You’ll...
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Sneak peek: Selecting features with the new Mapbox Studio
Maps are composed of carefully selected and simplified data: the maker’s challenge is to include context and data without adding clutter. To make this task easier for cartographers, designers, and...
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Experiments in simulating colorblindness
As a colorblind person who specializes in making maps for data visualization, I was inspired by Blake’s recent blog post on Introducing a Color Blind Filter to take a careful look at the limits of my...
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Rendering big geodata on the fly with GeoJSON-VT
Despite the amazing advancements of computing technologies in recent years, processing and displaying large amounts of data dynamically is still a daunting, complex task. However, a smart approach with...
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Super high-res New Zealand aerial imagery
New Zealand is so beautiful that it’s hard to get imagery that does it justice. But we found some we love – 250,000 km2 of gorgeous aerial photos from Land Information New Zealand, at high to...
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Distance API launches
Click on a nightclub to see the cycling travel time (in minutes) to all other nightclubs on the map.We just launched the Distance API to calculate travel times between many points with only one API...
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