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Come party before the Women Who Code DC Hackathon!
On Friday, April 29th we’re opening the Garage doors to welcome friends, family, and participants of this year’s Women Who Code DC Hackathon! The Hackathon marks the two year anniversary of Women Who...
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3 years of editing OpenStreetMap
Our data team is constantly exploring ways to improve the quality and coverage of OpenStreetMap to create the most detailed map of the world. To do this, we use feedback from our users,probe data from...
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Welcome Nat Slaughter!
Welcome Nat Slaughter, the latest addition to the Mapbox design team! Nat has a history of working on unique and complex data visualization projects, like these Inman Park Squirrel Census posters.Nat...
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Introducing the Mapbox API Playground
We’re always working on making our APIs easier to use. Last month, we launched new API documentation. And now, we’re launching an API Playground to make it easy for hands-on exploration of our API!The...
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Use Studio styles in Tableau, ArcGIS, and CartoDB
You can now use map styles designed with Mapbox Studio in spatial analysis tools including Tableau, ArcGIS Online, and the CartoDB Editor.Click on the “Share & use” button of a style, follow the...
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Techniques for fast mapping
The Mapbox data team is always exploring ways to improve our workflow for resolving OpenStreetMap issues with the Java OpenStreetMap Editor (JOSM). Over time, we have found techniques that increase our...
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Mapbox Outdoors Redesign
Apps for outdoor activities should have maps designed for outdoor activities. Our completely redesigned Mapbox Outdoors style combines a detailed road network with useful outdoor features:...
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Sri Lanka UAV survey for disaster preparedness
The World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) has been using OpenStreetMap, UAVs, and satellite imagery to assess flood risk in the Mundeni Aru and Attanagalu Oya River...
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Meet Moriah, HOT's Outreachy intern
Last December through March, Mapbox sponsored an intern through the Outreachy program to work with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) on redesigning their website. Outreachy organizes...
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Bringing OpenStreetMap to Cuba / Apoyando OpenStreetMap en Cuba
Versión en español abajo.Today CubaConf opens the first ever international free software conference in Cuba.We’re proud to sponsor CubaConf and bring Wille Marcel to talk OpenStreetMap and open...
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We're at the North Bay GIS User Group
This Wednesday we will be presenting at the North Bay GIS Developer Meeting in Petaluma, CA.Tyler will speak on The Autonomous Map: machine inputs, telemetry, and ‘self-healing’ data, reviewing some of...
View ArticleDesign turn-by-turn navigation with our route guidance simulator and Studio
You can now imitate in-car navigation experiences with our guidance simulator, a tool built on Mapbox GL JS and our Directions API.With the guidance simulator, you can preview routes at high-speed,...
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OpenStreetMap iD editor in Google Summer of Code
Congratulations to Kushan Joshi on acceptance to Google Summer of Code, a program which pairs talented students with mentors to work on open source software. This summer, Kushan and I will be working...
View ArticleThree million km² updated in Mapbox Satellite
We just pushed three million square kilometers of new imagery into Mapbox Satellite. Last year, we talked about our purchase of this high-res data from DigitalGlobe. A few weeks ago, I posted about one...
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The new Mapbox Vector Tile Specification guide
Vector tiles are how we store geographic data for rendering on the web or mobile devices. Every time you upload your data to Mapbox it is converted into a tileset; a collection of vector tiles.For us...
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Vector Tile Specification version 2: what's changed?
The Mapbox Vector Tile Specification recently graduated to version 2.0 and along with it a number of our tools and products, including some new documentation. The specification is an important way for...
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Introducing Maki 3
We just released a new version of Maki, our open source map icon set. Maki 3 includes 114 icons, plus style guidelines to help the icon set grow to meet user’s needs, and an iconset editor for quickly...
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Create custom map icon sets with the Maki icon editor
The latest version of the Maki comes with an icon set editor for customizing and organizing large icon sets.A new way to edit iconsTo make it easier and faster to create icon sets, all styling in the...
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Welcome Justin Van Etten!
Justin Van Etten is joining Mapbox! As Mapbox’s first commercial counsel, Justin is jumping in with our business team to close sales and wrangle data licenses. Justin will be building the legal systems...
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New Analytics API for fetching your usage stats
We’ve launched the Analytics API, an API that Premium and Enterprise customers can use to programmatically check Mapbox usage. You can request usage by account as a whole or, if you’re using multiple...
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