Come hang with us at FOSS4GNA this week!
We’re in Raleigh this week for FOSS4G NA, and we are so excited to hang out and chat Mapbox with friends both old and new. Be sure to come check out our sessions and say hi!Tuesday, 2:15 pm: Mapbox...
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Fast geodesic approximations with Cheap Ruler
Geodesic calculations are an important building block of many geospatial applications. Examples include finding distance between two locations, length of a road, direction of a road segment, area of a...
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Mapping complex features in JOSM using relations
Relations are one of the more advanced feature types to map in OpenStreetMap. Most geographic features in OpenStreetMap are represented either by points (called nodes in OpenStreetMap terminology – for...
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Introducing data-driven styling in Mapbox GL JS
Today we’re introducing data-driven styling capabilities in Mapbox GL JS with property functions. Property functions allow you to style map features based on their properties. As of Mapbox GL JS...
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Mapping highway exit numbers on OpenStreetMap
Exit numbers are an essential part of guidance in navigation systems. To reach your desired destination, your navigation system should be able to guide you to the correct exit when driving on...
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Better OpenStreetMap data with iD's new imagery offset tool
The iD editor makes adding features to OpenStreetMap as easy as tracing on the map. But background imagery doesn’t always match up perfectly with the real world. Camera distortions, atmospheric...
View ArticleOur Geocoder 💙 Wikipedia
The Mapbox geocoder has always been able to tell you where a place is. Today we’re adding Wikidata IDs to geocoding responses, unlocking the ability to answer other questions about a location.The...
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Qt Framework officially supported
Mapbox GL Native now officially supports Qt, an open-source cross-platform application framework designed to write once, deploy everywhere. Qt is widely used in many industries, including mobile,...
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Voice generated directions in Android apps
Add voice generated directions to your Android app using the Mapbox Android SDK, Mapbox Android Services, and the Android Speech To Text API.To demonstrate how this works, we built an Android app...
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Vector maps in Cocoa applications on OS X
The Mapbox OS X SDK is a community-maintained port of Mapbox GL Native. The same library that powers interactive, customizable vector maps on iOS, Android, and the cross-platform Qt framework runs just...
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Mapbox Streets and Terrain now follow Vector Tile Specification version 2
We upgraded billions of our tiles in Mapbox Streets and Terrain* to follow the updated Mapbox Vector Tile Specification, which are now 100% compatible with our faster GL triangulation library, earcut....
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See you at the Open Data Camp happy hour!
On Saturday, May 14th we’ll be at Puma Social Club, Indiranagar after day one of Open Data Camp Bangalore to continue the conversation around open data and to strengthen the fight against, and curb...
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CityMaps2Go launches offline maps
CityMaps2Go just launched their new travel and offline map guides on iOS using our mobile SDK and Mapbox Streets.You can now browse maps or search for a specific country, province or city to download...
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See you next week at Google I/O
We’ll be down in Mountain View next week for Google I/O 2016, Google’s annual developer event, learning about what’s new in the next version of Android, attending workshops, and answering any questions...
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Updated terrain in Mapbox Outdoors
This week we launched our redesigned maps and announced that our streets and terrain data now follow Vector Tile Specification v2. These two releases come together in the new Mapbox Outdoors map, which...
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Mapbox Streets redesign
This week we launched a redesign of all our maps across all our Mapbox GL APIs, SDKs, and tools. It’s been just over a year since the last significant redesign of our flagship map, Mapbox Streets, and...
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Whiskey distilleries by state with the Mapbox Studio dataset editor
Recently I’ve been working to understand the number of whiskey distilleries in the United States. Thanks to this handy blog post, I’ve been able to use the Mapbox dataset editor to visualize the number...
View ArticleThe end of CartoCSS
This begins with a short story, you can skip to the demo if you want.In late 2010, I started on a map rendering language called CartoCSS. We were working on TileMill, our first-generation map editing...
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See you at the Understanding Risk Forum 2016
Join me along with Heather Leason of the Humanitarian OpenSteetMap Team and Nama Raj Budhathoki of the Kathmandu Living Labs to talk about how OpenStreetMap and digital humanitarians support crisis...
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Angelina Calderon joins Mapbox!
Angelina Calderon has joined the Mapbox team in San Francisco! As a member of our customer success team, Angelina helps Mapbox customers get the most out of the platform.Prior to joining Mapbox,...
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