Maanya Umashaanker joins Mapbox!
We’re thrilled to welcome Maanya Umashaanker to the data team! Maanya joins us to improve OpenStreetMap and other datasets using satellite imagery, probe data, and analyzing customer feedback.Maanya...
View ArticleManohar Erikipati joins Mapbox!
We are excited to welcome Manohar to Mapbox. Manohar joins us to improve OpenStreetMap and other datasets using a combination of satellite imagery and analysing customer feedback.Manohar studied...
View ArticleSee you at Esri UC 2016!
The annual Esri User Conference is coming up at the end of the month, and we can’t wait to see you there. We’ll be hanging out on the USS Midway, one of the longest-serving aircraft carriers in the US...
View ArticleData-driven styling for fill layers in Mapbox GL JS
The latest Mapbox GL JS release (v0.19.0) includes data-driven styling support for fill-color and fill-outline-color. Data-driven styling opens up advanced data vizualization and map design...
View ArticleXinnong Yang to head business development in China
Xinnong Yang is joining Mapbox to lead business development in China. Based in Shanghai he will work on expanding our sales and partnerships with Chinese and international customers. Xinnong comes with...
View ArticleMapillary JS viewer now built into iD
With the new Mapillary JS viewer, you can walk around the world in 3D and explore millions of crowdsourced photos.Peter Neubauer, Kushan Joshi, and I integrated the new Mapillary JS viewer directly...
View ArticleBuilding relationships and tools for humanitarian response
Unprecedented relationships on the ground and spanning the globe, along with rapid advances in collaborative tools, are fundamentally changing how data and analysis are created and shared for...
View ArticleData-driven styling for live earthquake tracking
Using USGS earthquake data feed and Mapbox GL JS data-driven styling, we built a live earthquake tracker of global tremors as detected by monitoring stations worldwide.Check out the tight clusters of...
View ArticleSatellite workshop at Mapbox Bengaluru
Join us at our Bengaluru office on Friday, June 24 for an introductory session on satellite imagery processing. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll introduce you to open satellite datasets, and teach you...
View ArticleKick off WWDC with Mapbox
We’re kicking off WWDC with a party next week, and we’d love to see you there!Meet other mobile developers over food and drinks on Tuesday, June 14th at 5:30 pm at our office in downtown SF. We’ll be...
View ArticleProjectCSGIRLS and the future of women in tech
This past Saturday, we had the honor and pleasure of sponsoring the 2016 ProjectCSGIRLS National Gala for the second year. ProjectCSGIRLS is a non-profit organization aimed at supporting young women in...
View ArticleApplying data-driven style to remote data sources
GitHub, Dropbox, and Google Sheets make it easy to store and share data — but how do you request a file from these sources to use it as a data layer on a map? I’ll show you how to request data from...
View ArticleSee you at State of the Map US in Seattle!
We are so excited to talk OpenStreetMap and share our work with everyone next month at State of the Map US.We’re looking forward to catching up with everyone and meeting new people in this fast moving...
View ArticleNotice attribution issues? Tell us
Have you noticed an attribution problem on a Mapbox hosted map? Let us know. OpenStreetMap contributors work hard to create free and open map data and deserve recognition, and we take OpenStreetMap’s...
View ArticleHappy hour in Karlsruhe
This week our directions team is in Karlsruhe. Join us to discuss directions, maps, and Mapbox Drive over drinks at Old Chapel Pub on Tuesday, June 14 at 19:00.See you there!
View ArticleKai Dalgleish joins Mapbox!
Kai Dalgleish is the newest member of the Mapbox geocoding team and joins us in our San Francisco office. Kai will be improving our geocoder’s search capabilities, data coverage, test systems, and much...
View ArticleMapbox at WWDC 2016
The Mapbox team stopped by WWDC this morning to deliver a coffee boost from Beulah’s Bean Truck to the crowd in line for the keynote!The WWDC keynote covered the latest API and operating system updates...
View ArticleOpen source direction icons
We’re releasing a navigation icon set, comprised of over 50 symbols, designed specifically for you to use with our directions API. We based the icon set on a global catalogue of navigational conditions...
View ArticleNew imagery for Nairobi, Kenya
We rolled out fresh imagery for Nairobi, Kenya into our maps. The new imagery covers all built up areas of Nairobi County and is available for editing on OpenStreetMap. Our friends at Map Kibera are...
View ArticleOpenStreetMap Hack Weekend at Mapbox Bengaluru
Join us on July 2nd and 3rd in Bengaluru for two full days of mapping and hacking on OpenStreetMap tools.Our office will remain open from 9 AM to 9 PM on July 2nd and 3rd, and we’ll have some great...
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