Olá Rio! High resolution Olympic preview
Brazil’s preparations for this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro have taken six years, $11.1 billion, and transformed parts of the city. High-resolution satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe is...
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Mapbox Satellite Streets redesigned
Last week’s launch of our redesigned maps included a fresh revamp of Mapbox Satellite Streets. Our goal was to add meaningful context of vector data to our vibrant Mapbox Satellite imagery without...
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Ajith Ranka joins Mapbox!
A big welcome to Ajith Ranka, who has joined the Mapbox team! Ajith will focus on improving OpenStreetMap data by building better tools for mapping and validation.Ajith is passionate about good design,...
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Hannah Judge joins Mapbox!
Hannah Judge has joined the Mapbox customer success team in San Francisco! Hannah uses her experience in mapping to help our customers get the most from our maps and APIs.Prior to joining Mapbox,...
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HOT tools to keep up with the OpenStreetMap Community
The OpenStreetMap community and database are moving so fast, it is hard to track all the growth. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and Missing Maps have recently launched new tools to understand the...
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Mapbox Light and Dark redesign
We released new Mapbox Light and Dark maps last week as a part of our broader map redesign and relaunch. We have offered updates to Light and Dark in the past, but this iteration presented an...
View ArticleConverting a project from Mapbox.js to Mapbox GL JS
For developers who have experience building web maps with Mapbox.js or Leaflet, switching old projects to use Mapbox GL JS can drastically improve the performance of your existing applications. Mapbox...
View ArticleImproved performance for your maps
Your maps are about to get faster thanks to some newly updated vector tiles and a soon-to-be-released version of Mapbox GL JS using Earcut.Check out this side-by-side video of Mapbox GL JS 0.19-dev and...
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Mapbox Outdoors redesign
Last week we launched a redesign of Mapbox Outdoors, our general use map tailored for hiking, biking, and the most adventurous use cases. It now incorporates more lightly styled road and transit...
View ArticlePlan your bike ride to work
Today is Bike to Work Day in D.C.! Using Mapbox cycling directions, we made a handy ride planner to plot your route, and highlight any of the 84 pit stops you might pass along the way. To customize...
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Optimized raster color corrections with rio-color
Last week we launched rio-color– an open source Rasterio plugin for color adjustment of geospatial rasters. We’re using it as part of our production image processing chain to keep our satellite basemap...
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Find us at PyCon!
Next week a bunch of us will be in Portland, Oregon for PyCon and we’re excited to meet you there!PyCon is the biggest annual meeting of the developers and users of the Python programming language....
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Introducing Mapbox Humanitarian
Maps are critical in humanitarian emergencies. They reveal buildings hardest hit in an earthquake, identify safe routes for relief supplies, and streamline damage assessments.To support these...
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Designing Mapbox Streets and Outdoors for mobile
We recently updated Mapbox Streets and Mapbox Outdoors, our two general use maps. While they’re designed to be optimized across a variety of devices, screen types, and environments, mobile use cases...
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Mapbox --> Boundless without a plugin
Open source geospatial tools should play well together.It’s always been possible to use Mapbox with OpenLayers. Check out our documentation for various versions and this example dropping the revamped...
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Introducing the Knife tool for JOSM
We have been mapping turn lanes in many cities in the United States to improve navigation data present in OpenStreetMap. Adding turn lanes requires splitting existing roads at the exact point where a...
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Taxi-hailing mobile app Tappsi launches with Mapbox
Tappsi just launched their taxi-hailing app on iOS and Android using our mobile SDK. Available in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador, the app allows you to find and book taxis with the tap of a button.Tappsi...
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Mapbox Satellite Streets redesigned for mobile
Redesigned to complement our constantly improving Satellite and Streets data, we optimized Mapbox Satellite Streets for mobile in two ways: with stronger hierarchies and feature sets for road networks...
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Creating custom POI layers in Studio
In Mapbox Studio you can replace the default source layer of POI data provided by OpenStreetMap with your own! Under the tilesets tab there’s an option to upload several different file types, which are...
View ArticleVector maps on Raspberry Pi and Yocto
Mapbox GL Native now has a layer forYocto, a tool for creating embedded Linux distributions. Yocto supports many CPU architectures and development boards like the Intel-based Minnowboard and any...
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