Washington Post: The New Cartographers
Our team, inside the garage, watch today's Washington Post: The New Cartographers.
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Girl Power @MapBox
I've been on the leadership team at MapBox since day one. I literally filed our incorporation papers, found and built out our office, and opened our first bank account. Now we grow. Today I'm running...
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500px Adds MapBox Maps
500px, the popular photo sharing website, just added MapBox maps to its gorgeous layout. Now, when a user views a specific photo, they have the option of seeing where the photo was taken. 500px...
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Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño joins MapBox as Chief Scientist
Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño is joining MapBox as Chief Scientist. Bruno has a PhD in Astrophysics from the Max Planck Research School and has worked with NASA satellites and space rockets at the U.S....
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New Map Features on 500px
Since our post yesterday, 500px has rolled out new map features. If you now click on a photo's map you'll see everyone's photo in the vicinity. You'll find the maps by clicking on the "Location" link...
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A First Look at Improving OpenStreetMap With New TIGER data
Improving OpenStreetMap with the latest TIGER dataMuch of the United States in OpenStreetMap is based on US Census Bureau TIGER 2006 data. While this data has been edited and improved in OpenStreetMap...
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Congress for iOS by Sunlight Foundation Q&A
Our friends at Sunlight Foundation recently released the iOS version of their popular Congress app. This free app lets you find out more about members of Congress, watch bills work their way through...
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ArcGIS + MapBox Sitting in a Tree... Thanks to Arc2Earth
ArcGIS, and the larger Esri suite can be a used in powerful ways with MapBox. All that is needed is the Arc2Earth Sync plugin to bring your desktop GIS to the cloud with MapBox.With Arc2Earth Sync you...
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Happy Hour Thursday @Bloodhound in San Francisco
We're kicking off August with beers this Thursday, August 1st, at 6:30pm @Bloodhound, our favorite bar by our office in San Francisco. Expecting to see a lot of good mapping friends from...
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Processing RapidEye Imagery in Minutes
RapidEye has high-res, extremely up-to-date satellite data. Their satellite constellation provides daily images of anywhere in the world with 5 meter resolution, making it especially useful for some of...
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Connecting Communities: Edit OpenStreetMap Directly from Foursquare
Foursquare Superusers can now edit OpenStreetMap directly from their moderation interface.Foursquare has always benefited by collecting location information from users who have a passion for accurate...
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Super Sharp 50cm Pléiades Satellite Imagery on MapBox.com
Pléiades is a constellation of two identical high-res satellites 1A and 1B on the same heliosynchronous orbit on opposite sides. This basically means that Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology...
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Financial Times Goes MapBox: Design Matters
The Financial Times' signature pink brand can now be found in its maps too. They completely nailed the new map design, integrating both the distinctive pink color scheme and their in-house font into...
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Good Morning San Francisco!
stretch good morning SAN FRANCISCO! Starting today I'm rocking it ~50% of the time out here w/ the growing @MapBox team.
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Weekend Hack: Printing 3D Tiles
A friend recently got a Makerbot (3D printer) at his work, and he invited me to play around with it. I thought it'd be neat to see what printing a map "tile" might look like. Unfortunately, his printer...
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Tracking Mars Curiosity Rover
This weekend I made a map tracking the Rover's year-long journey across the Red Planet, all in celebration of the Curiosity Rover's one year anniversary on Mars -- and an excuse to dive back into my...
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Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap!
August 9th OpenStreetMap's 9th birthday is coming up. To celebrate, we'll be hosting the local DC community's birthday sprint this Saturday August 10th at the MapBox garage. Join in for a day of...
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Faxing Outer Space
Today, requesting satellite imagery of anywhere in the world often requires a fax machine. The process is more like a game of telephone in order to gain access to some of the most high-tech tools in...
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Financial Times Satellite
Last week the Financial Times launched with new custom branded MapBox maps in their signature pink and in-house fonts. These new maps also come with a labels and streets layer specifically designed for...
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Expanding our Satellite Processing with Astrium’s SPOT 6
As we prepare our MapBox Satellite Live service, we're continuing to expand our satellite imagery processing to include the best and newest sensors available – this time with SPOT 6 from Astrium. SPOT...
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