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Embedding navigation within your app
Sign up for early accessWe're building an open source library that can put turn-by-turn directions right in your app, so that your users don't need to switch between apps to get where they need to go....
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Bringing native Mapbox maps to hybrid mobile developers
With Telerik’s new plugins for Cordova and NativeScript, your can write mobile applications with HTML & JavaScript without sacrificing the performance of the Mapbox’s native iOS and Android...
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Labels on top
Ever gone through crazy cartographic contortions to keep your labels from being buried? Transparency, offsets, and overlays can be tricky and often suboptimal solutions:You can keep labels on top with...
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Hannah Gelfond joins Mapbox!
We’re excited to welcome Hannah Gelfond to the Mapbox team! She’ll be running alongside Eric, helping him to scale as the team continues to grow. As a member of the Operations team, she will also...
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Whoops, where'd my label go?
With Mapbox Studio, it’s easy to make a map with labels on top. It’s a little more tricky to know when a particular label should render. We’ve done the hard work of keeping labels legible so you don’t...
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Mumbai's landfill fire captured on Landsat
Three days ago, Mumbai’s largest landfill located in the east caught fire, choking the air with toxic fumes. It took two days for the fire to be brought under control, by which time the city’s...
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Data quality + vandalism detection in OpenStreetMap
We’re developing tools like osmlint to identify and fix common geometry and metadata problems in OpenStreetMap. At this week’s GeoDC meetup, I’ll discuss the challenges of maintaining high-quality map...
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Better navigation with new road classifications in Mapbox Streets
Soon you’ll be able to highlight the road features most relevant to your map style with the new Mapbox Streets v7. We’ve expanded our road classifications, for more flexible styling and so you can dive...
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Washington Post real-time election results
Election season officially kicks off tonight at 7 PM CST in Iowa. You can follow the action in real-time using The Washington Post’s live election map. Built by Development Seed using US Census data,...
View ArticleCompare styles added to Mapbox Studio
Check out the new compare view inside Mapbox Studio’s debug panel. Use it to ensure colors are harmonious and label placement is consistent across styles, or to see how a particular style looks with...
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Get on the map!
Our maps are based on OpenStreetMap. This means that within minutes, you can add your local knowledge: roads, cafés, buildings, cycling trails, and more. Here is your guide to getting started.Let’s get...
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Space, Science, Hardware, and Lesbians Who Tech
We are more than excited to attend the Lesbians Who Tech Summit in San Francisco later this month! Not only is the theme of this summit right up our alley (Space, Science, Hardware, and More), but it’s...
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Drag and drop assets in Mapbox Studio
Drag and drop is now supported in Mapbox Studio. You can drag and drop data, icons, and fonts into the style editor and start using them instantly.You can also drag and drop data and style JSON files...
View ArticleBusiness intelligence powered by Mapbox
Modern business intelligence (BI) is more than charts and graphs. Need to identify insurance policyholders in a storm’s path? Compare spending and pedestrian traffic to optimize store locations? Plan...
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325,454 new buildings on San Francisco Peninsula
We just finished our building tracing sprint, adding 173,447 building polygons on the San Francisco Peninsula. Together with our 2014 San Francisco building sprint this brings us to a total of 325,454...
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Ramping Up in Studio
Zoom is a fundamental design element for maps. The same cartography can show political borders at one zoom and detailed building shapes close up. With Mapbox Studio and Mapbox GL, we support...
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Open source interpolation for geocoding
Our geocoder combines address points and interpolation lines from hundreds of open and proprietary datasets around the world. When searching for an address, we first look for a matching address point,...
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Introducing private maps and data encryption
Maps can now be locked and set to private, giving you total control over who is looking at your data. No one can see your private maps without your access token.The new private map settings apply to...
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Mapbox iOS SDK 3.1.0
The Mapbox iOS SDK is more dynamic than ever! Version 3.1.0 is now available, featuring numerous improvements to the installation process, animation, and customizability.If you’ve installed this SDK...
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Use your Mapbox Studio styles everywhere
Mapbox now supports older browsers like Internet Explorer 9 and the styles you create in Studio are perfectly backwards-compatible. To make this possible, we render vector tiles into raster images with...
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