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Mapbox support in Airbnb's AirMapView
Mapbox is now a provider in AirMapView which means Android developers can use Mapbox in applications where native map providers aren’t able to run.AirMapView is an open source Android library from the...
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Welcome Bryan Housel
Welcome, Bryan Housel!Bryan joins us to work on Mapbox GL and OpenStreetMap infrastructure. He’s the maintainer of OpenStreetMap’s iD Editor and will bring the same skills to bear on high-performance...
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What's in a Mapbox Studio style?
Mapbox Studio styles are a lot more than meets the eye. Under the hood, every map relies on a set of APIs and performance-tuned standards working in concert.Vector rendering has spawned a new approach...
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Welcome Tim Channell
Welcome Tim Channell, who has joined us in DC!Tim is a long-time Turf contributor with a knack for writing lightning-fast computational geometry algorithms. He comes to Mapbox from the world of...
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Quality analysis for OpenStreetMap
OSM QA Tiles are now being updated daily for the entire world on osmlab.github.io as mbtiles. OSM QA Tiles contain the full spectrum of OpenStreetMap data at full fidelity. Use them with Tile Reduce to...
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The World's Wifi
This is what more than 900 million Wifi routers and cell phone towers looks like. That’s one router for every 8 people on earth, all captured from Skyhook.This is more points with attributes than I’ve...
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Help design the future of maps
Mapbox is expanding its design team! We are looking for a designer to help create the most beautiful and useful maps in the world.Ideal candidates want to touch every step of the map design process:...
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Manny Lopez joins Mapbox!
Meet Manny, our newest Mapbox Support Hero!Manny comes to our team with an amazing background in support as former lead at the Esri R&D Center and Page Operations support team at Facebook. Manny...
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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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Welcome Jothirnadh
Say hello to Jothirnadh! Jothi joins us to improve OpenStreetMap and other datasets using a combination of satellite imagery, customer feedback and probe data.Prior to joining Mapbox, Jothi was using...
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TransparencyCamp opening reception this Friday
We’re big fans of open government and open data, so we’re delighted to be hosting the opening reception for this year’s TransparencyCamp. Join us this Friday for drinks, snacks and good government...
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Say hi at FOSS4G Seoul!
Vlad and I are on the ground and very excited to be attending FOSS4G this week in Seoul. If you’ll be there, too, you should stop by the Mapbox booth and say hello! Or you can check out one of our...
View ArticleStartups support net neutrality -- in court
Yesterday we joined a coalition of startups to support the FCC’s new net neutrality rules in court. As we said in the run-up to the Commission’s vote on the rules earlier this year:We’re built on open...
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Dan Patterson joins Mapbox!
It is an honor to welcome Dan, the newest member of the Directions team! Joining the team from Coeur d'Alene, ID, Dan gained a love of mapping while developing the real-time GPS tracking systems that...
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Tour de Code's kickoff party
We’re thrilled to host the kick off party for DCFemTech’sTour de Code! Tour de Code has events running all month to bring together women and minorities interested in technology to teach, learn, and...
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Find anything with universal search in Mapbox Studio
Mapbox Studio now has universal search, making it fast for designers to find anything they need. You can search for almost anything while designing a map simply by pressing Cmd-K on OSX and Ctrl-K on...
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Mapbox Directions powered by OSRM 4.8.1
Mapbox Directions is now using the latest version of the Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM), the open-source library powering our Directions products.Some of the improvements you will see:Our...
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Tilt the world with the iOS SDK
Pitch just shipped in the newest release of the Mapbox iOS SDK! We also added support for iOS 9.0 and made continued performance and stability improvements.A new camera-like API lets you control an...
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Mapping Arctic sea ice in a polar projection
Arctic sea ice changes throughout the year, from winter maximums to summer minimums, but is generally shrinking. 2015 marked the lowest maximum and fourth lowest minimum since consistent satellite...
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How to design complex styles with Mapbox Studio
Detailed, sophisticated maps like Emerald consist of many interrelated layers. There are 16 different types of roads, and five types of landcover: snow, crop, wood, scrub, and grass. All in all, the...
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