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Visualizing 3 Billion Tweets
This is a look at 3 billion tweets - every geotagged tweet since September 2011, mapped, showing facets of Twitter's ecosystem and userbase in incredible new detail, revealing demographic, cultural,...
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Using Leaflet plugins with MapBox.js: A Showcase
One of the reasons we built MapBox.js v1 on top of Leaflet was its robust plugin ecosystem. The Leaflet plugins page lists dozens of plugins, and more are being added every week. In fact, MapBox.js...
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New MapBox Stickers
We took some time out of our busy schedules here at MapBox to churn out some new goodies. Check it out.Inspired by the dozens of bold, iconic NASA shuttle mission patches, our new stickers aim to...
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MapBox Transparency Report
We just launched the Mapbox Transparency Report, an effort directly inspired by our commitment to protecting our users' privacy and data. Recent revelations of the scale of government surveillance on...
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Pig Roast This Friday in the MapBox Garage
This Friday we're throwing open the garage doors to host a pig roast at MapBox. Join us for a whole barbecued pig smoked by the folks at Rocklands, a few ice cold kegs to help you fend off the 90°+...
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Christopher Jones Joins MapBox
Christopher Jones, a long time colleague in the open source and open data space has just joined MapBox. Christopher will be working closely with Ian, Will and myself to expand the ability of our cloud...
View ArticleAnnouncing MapBox.js v1.1.0 & Leaflet 0.6.1
Today we're announcing the release of MapBox.js v1.1.0, which integrates with today's release of Leaflet 0.6.1. This week has been the first official Leaflet code sprint, hosted at the MapBox office in...
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TileMill Seamless Blur
Experimenting with the new ability in TileMill to seamlessly blur geometries -- coming soon in the next release of TileMill.
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GeoDC Meetup Tonight on Geodata Formats
Join us tonight for the July GeoDC meetup on geodata formats starting at 7:00 pm at Stetson's. John Firebaugh, in town from San Francisco, will present on the GeoJSON file format, walking through when...
View ArticleSSL Maps for Everyone
MapBox now supports SSL on every plan and across every service - at no extra charge. SSL is a necessity for every secure website, and it's vital to have all remote resources sent via the HTTPS protocol...
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Batticaloa Progress on OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap mapping progress in and around Batticaloa, Sri Lanka (7°43′0″N 81°42′0″E) since May 1, 2013.The progress made in mapping was impressive, with the entire Batticaloa area traced and on the...
View ArticleEasy Maps with GitHub
Live from the GeoDC meetup -- Ben Balter of GitHub talks about making data social now that GitHub added maps and supports GeoJSON. It's as easy as committing your JSON, GeoJSON or TopoJSON file to...
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Real Time Imagery via MapBox Satellite Live
We're launching MapBox Satellite Live later this summer. This new service will provide instant access to timely satellite imagery from anywhere in the world, directly though MapBox.com. We are...
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Dashboards for Data
The MapBox Garage now sports five dashboard displays that visualize the growth and form of MapBox and OpenStreetMap.MapBox's server and CDN architecture is the core of our speed and reliability. We...
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Hiring Business Development Lead at MapBox San Francisco
We are looking for a head of Business Development to lead partnerships and build out a sales team at MapBox in San Francisco. We are rapidly growing, and to date we have not had a dedicated sales team...
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Smoking Hot Coffee Interview
I recently had a great interview with the guys at Smoking Hot Coffee, a show covering the startup space. We talked at length about MapBox's strategy, operation, history, and a bit about what might be...
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Portland: The Age of a City
619,000 buildings, 544,033 of them list the year they were built in Portland. Justin Palmer of GitHub created this beautiful map of Portland, Oregon's buildings by age with TileMill. The color scheme...
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Tracing Landsat 8 for OpenStreetMap
Want to help update OpenStreetMap with fresh, free Landsat 8 imagery? Here’s how to get started tracing whatever interests you, even if you’ve never edited OpenStreetMap before.Start by finding a place...
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Mapping Millions of Dots
I've made a lot of maps out of dots before, but the ones we made from Gnip's Twitter archives, which were featured in Wired Design a few days ago, were my first experience trying to make dot maps that...
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Making Maki Even Better
Maki, our open-source point-of-interest icon project, has gone through some exciting changes recently.Better for collaborationPreviously, Maki icons existed in a single source file, bunched together...
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