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Safer flying with AirMap
The FAA’s new rules for small UAVs mean that a lot more drones are going to work in the U.S. Our friends at AirMap are building maps and data services that make it possible for companies and pilots to...
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How to build a location picker for your app!
Location pickers in apps are useful for helping people coordinate rides and deliveries while on the go. Here’s how to build one for your app using the Android SDK!The main components needed to make a...
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Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata
iD, OpenStreetMap’s entry-level editing tool, now supports Wikidata, the freely licensed database that powers fact boxes and other structured content at Wikipedia.Another tool for mappers and...
View ArticleWhite House Mapathon today!
The second annual White House Mapathon is today! Last year was a blast, and we are so excited to celebrate open mapping in government. Mikel will be there creating map data and sharing power mapping...
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Amisha Singla joins Mapbox!
Join us in welcoming Amisha Singla to the growing engineering team in Bangalore! Amisha is a contributor to GNOME’s Outreachy program where she developed the print support for the direction feature in...
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Bharata Srinivasa joins Mapbox!
We’re excited to welcome Bharata Srinivasa to the data team! He is a tech and mapping enthusiast and has been contributing to OpenStreetMap for four years. Bharata joins us to improve OpenStreetMap and...
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Berlin happy hour
Berlin happy hour is back this July. With a bunch of Mapboxers in Berlin to work on our Directions API the same week, we’d love to take the opportunity to meet you! Let’s chat about anything maps or...
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Map matching and more in Mapbox Android Services 1.2
Mapbox Android Services is a great way to consume Mapbox APIs in your Java and Android applications. With just a few lines of code, you’ve been able to get the most efficient routes using the...
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Subaru Starlink connected car maps
Owners of SUBARU STARLINK™ subscribed vehicles can now locate their vehicle right from their phone. This Remote Vehicle Locator uses the Mapbox geocoding API to locate a user’s vehicle and then...
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Lily Chai joins Mapbox!
Lily Chai has joined the Mapbox Telemetry team out of our San Francisco office. Lily will be our resident data scientist, building statistics algorithms and data pipelines for improving OpenStreetMap...
View ArticleDesign your own Pokémon Go map
The team at Niantic, who built Pokémon Go, did amazing work. Pokémon brings augmented reality mainstream, and the playful design of the maps is the foundation for all of it. Niantic’s CEO John Hanke,...
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Book a support session at State of the Map US
Mapbox is gearing up for State of the Map US on July 23 and 24 in Seattle, and this year we’re trying something new. In addition to great talks and workshops, Dan Swick and Lyzi Diamond (that’s me!)...
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Jen Yu joins Mapbox!
We’re so excited to welcome Jen Yu to the communications team at Mapbox! Jen will be based in San Francisco where she’ll help us with messaging, media relations, our blog, email campaigns, and social...
View ArticleKicking off State of the Map US 2016!
Only one week until this year’s State of the Map US in Seattle! We’re excited to kick off the weekend’s conference with a welcome party at Rhein Haus next Friday, July 22nd at 7:30pm. Join us to catch...
View ArticleNative view annotations in our latest iOS SDK
Our latest iOS SDK release introduces native view annotations, bringing the powerful, customizable marker views that we recently released on Android to iOS. Our new annotations are a big step forward...
View ArticleThe playful design of Pokémon Go maps
The team at Niantic, who built Pokémon Go, did amazing work. Pokémon brings augmented reality mainstream, and the playful design of the maps is the foundation for all of it. Niantic’s CEO John Hanke,...
View ArticleKicking off State of the Map US 2016!
Only one week until this year’s State of the Map US in Seattle! We’re excited to kick off the weekend’s conference with a welcome party at Rhein Haus next Friday, July 22nd at 7:30pm. Join us to catch...
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Upendra Karukonda joins Mapbox!
We are excited to welcome Upendra Karukonda to our expanding data team in Bengaluru. He will focus on improving OpenStreetMap through satellite imagery, telemetry and customer-feedback data.Upendra...
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Natalie Pitcher joins Mapbox
Join us in welcoming Natalie aboard the Mapbox team! Natalie will be leading out event strategy, working to grow Mapbox’s presence across industries.Natalie comes to Mapbox after earning an MBA at...
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Fresh imagery --> more mapping
Fresh, high-resolution imagery lets mappers add more up-to-date, detailed data to OpenStreetMap.In November 2014, DigitalGlobe released 475,000 km2 of imagery of Cameroon in response to a polio...
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