Creating vector tiles from raster datasets
Climate models predict massive shifts in temperature and precipitation over the next 100+ years. These changes will not be the same everywhere; they will appear in complex patterns across the earth’s...
View ArticleSearch for your next apartment with RentPath
RentPath helps consumers find apartments and houses for rent, whether you’re looking for a modern apartment in San Francisco or a townhouse in Illinois. Its websites Rent.com, Rentals.com, and...
View ArticleMarissa joins Mapbox!
We are thrilled to welcome Marissa Fullford to the operations team at Mapbox! Marissa joins us to support our growing team - to make sure we all have what we need to work fast and well, that our DC...
View ArticleDelve into data with the Mapbox iOS SDK
With feature querying in the latest release of our iOS SDK, your iOS application can take any street, landmark, or business that’s on the map and display additional information about it anywhere on the...
View ArticleJoin us at 360|AnDev 2016!
Mapbox is proud to co-sponsor the 360|AnDev Conference on July 28th and 29th in Denver, Colorado. This two day event will bring together a diverse group of people from the Android community interested...
View ArticleSee you at The Fifth Elephant
Aarthy, Ramya and I are going to be at The Fifth Elephant on the 28th and 29th of July, where I will be speaking about using TileReduce to parallelise large scale spatial analysis.The talk will cover...
View ArticleMapbox welcomes Nate Perkins!
We’re growing fast here at Mapbox. At the forefront of our expansion is Operations, which runs our team, company, and logistical infrastructure. Last week we welcomed Nate Perkins to our team.Nate...
View ArticleColor balancing imagery with histogram matching
In our post on rio color we introduced a Rasterio plugin for color-balancing geospatial imagery. By adjusting gamma, saturation, and contrast we can correct colors to produce a more attractive and...
View ArticleState of the Map Japan 2016 at Tokyo
The third edition of State of the Map Japan is happening on August 6th at Tokyo. Mapbox is proud to sponsor the largest OpenStreetMap conference in Japan. The theme of the conference this year is...
View ArticleMeet Mapbox at Inman Connect San Francisco!
We’ll be at Inman Connect in kiosk #K12 in San Francisco tomorrow August 2 through Thursday, August 4. Come hear what we have in store for web and mobile.We’ll be on hand to talk about how real estate...
View ArticleWeather maps with WeatherBug
WeatherBug’s interactive forecasts and maps paint a colorful picture of real time weather trends around the globe. Toggle on the different layers to visualize weather data about everything from...
View ArticleSay hi at Black Hat USA 2016 and DEFCON 24!
We’ll be at Black Hat USA 2016, the largest information security conference in the world, and DEF CON 24 in Las Vegas tomorrow August 3rd through August 7th.We’ll be there to chat about our HackerOne...
View ArticlePower your Framer prototypes with real location data
Prototyping with real data allows you to build realistic interactions and create better user experiences. If you’re designing a location-based application, you can add real geographic data to Framer...
View ArticleDesign a location-based game map with Mapbox Studio
A couple weeks ago I built a web map in the style of Pokemon Go, and a bunch of you emailed asking how I made it. For all you designers out there, here’s a tutorial on designing a fun, minimal map for...
View ArticleTrack 'em all with PokeRadar!
Missing a Vaporeon? Did that Dragonite disappear before you unleashed your Pokéball? Trying to catch ‘em all can be grueling, but Pokémon Go has spawned an ecosystem of companion apps to help you meet...
View ArticleSay hi at the NABJ and NAHJ Annual Convention and Career Fair!
This Friday, August 5, 2016, at 2pm, we’ll be leading a workshop at the 2016 NABJ and NAHJ Annual Convention and Career Fair, one of the premier venues for journalism education and career development...
View ArticleMapbox + Unity
We’re building core support for Mapbox in Unity, the game engine used in many games - including Pokémon GO. This allows developers to use Studio to design maps to match the feel of their game. The...
View ArticleMapbox now powers The Weather Channel App on iOS
The most popular weather app on the App Store just switched to Mapbox mobile. The Weather Channel now uses our SDK to visualize the most accurate and precise weather forecasts around the world.The new...
View ArticleNick Cordella joins Mapbox
Join us in welcoming Nick Cordella to Mapbox! Nick will help us create new products from sensor data for semi-autonomous cars as part of Mapbox Drive.Nick comes to us from ExoNav where he was building...
View ArticleJoin us for the WikiConference India 2016
Join us on the 6th and 7th of August for the WikiConference India 2016 taking place in the Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Landran (Mohali), India.Manoj K and me will be a part of the mapping party...
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