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Quality assurance in the data team
The Mapbox data team works with the OpenStreetMap community daily by creating new data, improving existing features, or fixing errors reported by our users. We touch a lot of data everyday. In order to...
View ArticleMapbox Android version 3.0.0: Lights, Camera, Action!
Today we released version 3.0.0 of the Mapbox Android SDK, which includes numerous improvements and features including the Camera API.The Camera API allows Android developers to move and change the...
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Mapping UK flooding in Tableau
The United Kingdom just experienced its warmest December on record and the wettest since 1929. An average of 8.3 inches of rain (211 mm for those following along in metric) fell across the country last...
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Designing the whaam! style in Mapbox Studio
Inspired by a Roy Lichtenstein original at the Walker Art Center, I decided to design the whaam! map. In his early career, Lichtenstein worked as a comic book artist which inspired his later work. I...
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A year of improving OpenStreetMap with map feedback
Have you ever noticed the “Improve this map” link at the bottom of Mapbox maps? The link brings users to a form to let us know if something is not right on the ground. We look at this feedback every...
View ArticleSearch points of interest by radius with Mapbox GL JS
Mapbox GL JS provides new and interesting ways to query data found on a map. We built an example that filters points of interest by genre, which uses the featuresAt method to only select data based on...
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Welcome Tobrun Van Nuland!
We are excited to welcome Tobrun Van Nuland to Mapbox! He joins our Mobile team where he’ll be working with our native SDKs and their integrations with the entire Mapbox tech stack.Tobrun lives and...
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Introducing the Directions Library for Android
We have just released a new Directions Library for Android. With this library you can easily add driving, walking, and cycling routes to your Android app, draw it on a map, and even detect when the...
View ArticleLinting OpenStreetMap Data
Just yesterday, over 1.5m nodes and 150k ways were added to OpenStreetMap. We are working on OSM Lint - an open source suite of validators - to understand the quality of OpenStreetMap data, and to...
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Introducing the Geocoder Library for Android
Introducing the Geocoder Library for AndroidFollowing the announcement earlier this week of a new directions library, today we are introducing a geocoder library for Android.This library lets you...
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Tracking conversations in OpenStreetMap
Mapbox contributes extensively to OpenStreetMap, and frequently interacts with the OpenStreetMap community through comments on changesets and notes on the map. We wanted a way, outside of email...
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Emily DuBois Joins Mapbox!
Emily DuBois is joining the Mapbox team! As a developer, she’ll focus on improving how we ingest OpenStreetMap data and more. She joins us from Opower, where she managed the development of data-driven...
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Designing the Swiss Ski style in Mapbox Studio
Swiss maps have long been praised for their accuracy, quality, and beauty. Since 1938 the Swisstopo– Swiss Federal Office of Topography, has been producing maps for hikers, Alpinists, cyclists,...
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Explore the X-Files
For seven seasons, Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully of The X-Files took us around the world as they investigated the unknown. To celebrate the series reboot, I built an interactive map of every X-File...
View ArticleCommunity mapping in Mongolia at the O'Reilly Design Conference
Come say hello this Friday, January 22nd at the O'Reilly Design Conference. As part of the Design for Social Impact track, I’ll be discussing the work of the Nomadic Mapping Collective, a community...
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Mapbox Android Version 3.1.0
We just released version 3.1.0 of the Mapbox Android SDK, which contains more than 100 core improvements and bug fixes. The new version focuses on improved navigation features for in-car and on-dash...
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A glimpse of the Mapbox Studio dataset editor
With Mapbox Studio, you can create and design beautiful, custom maps to your exact specifications. Soon, you’ll be able to do the same with your data. Take a look at this sneak peek of the Mapbox...
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Mapbox Directions on OSRM 4.9
This week the Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) saw a new release 4.9.1 (following 4.9.0). The 4.9 versions are focused on internal restructuring to enable future improvements. Among the changes you...
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Sam Matthews joins Mapbox!
Sam Matthews is joining the Mapbox team! As a developer, he will focus on improving the open source tools and documentation around Vector Tiles. Sam joins us from Code for America, where he worked on...
View ArticleMapping winter storm Jonas
The first flakes of winter storm Jonas are just beginning to fall at the Mapbox Garage. Damon used forecast data from NOAA’s High Resolution Rapid Refresh Model to animate the storm’s arrival in the...
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