Lonely Planet launches with offline maps
Lonely Planet, the world’s largest travel guide publisher, just launched the newest version of their Guides app for iOS using our latest mobile SDK. The Guides app includes beautiful travel guides, and...
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Mapbox Summer BBQ
It’s time for the Mapbox Summer BBQ! Join us this Thursday in the DC Garage - we’ll have half smokes on the grill and beer on tap. Stop by anytime after 6:30! RSVP to let us know that you’re coming!
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Yunjie Li joins Mapbox
We are thrilled to welcome Yunjie Li to the Mapbox team! Yunjie joins the labs team in San Francisco where she will build custom maps and applications to showcase the breadth of uses for Mapbox design...
View ArticleCustom HTML markers in Mapbox GL JS
You can now add HTML markers to your GL maps in the latest release of Mapbox GL JS (v0.21.0). The Marker API provides you with added flexibility for representing point data by allowing you to use...
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Taller de OpenStreetMap - WISCI 2016
English version below.El 29 de Julio, el equipo de Mapbox Perú apoyó en un taller de OpenStreetMap para 100 niñas de educación secundaria de Chile, México, Estados Unidos y Perú que participarón en el...
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Higher resolution land cover data from satellite imagery
Mapbox Vector Terrain, our global elevation and landcover tiles whose data drives maps like Outdoors, is getting a resolution bump as we use our declouded satellite imagery to improve land cover...
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Benjamin Tran Dinh joins Mapbox
We’re so excited to welcome Benjamin Tran Dinh to Mapbox! Benjamin is joining our telemetry team to analyze sensor data and help us build maps and new products for guiding semi-autonomous vehicles as...
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Colleen McGinnis joins Mapbox!
Join us in welcoming Colleen McGinnis to the Mapbox team! Colleen is jumping aboard the Mapbox support team, where she’ll be putting her development and design skills to work to help Mapbox users get...
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Mapbox BBQ season wraps up tomorrow in DC!
Last Friday, we got together over tri-tips, drinks and corn on the cob for team BBQs in Ayacucho, Bangalore and San Francisco. Tomorrow, the DC team and friends will host the last Mapbox BBQ of the...
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Evento Mapillary Ayacucho
English version below.La semana pasada, el equipo de Mapbox Perú organizó un evento de Mapillary en Ayacucho como parte del esfuerzo de hacer que Huamanga, Perú sea la ciudad mejor mapeada en América...
View ArticleOpenStreetMap turns 12!
OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the whole world is celebrating its 12th year with 2.94 million enthusiastic community mappers around the world. The map has been constructed with around 3.48...
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Rasagy Sharma joins Mapbox!
We are excited to welcome Rasagy Sharma to Mapbox! Rasagy joins our design team based out of our Bengaluru office, working on custom cartography, data visualizations and improving the user experience...
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Open Mapping at the East Africa Open Data Festival
This is a big week in East Africa for open data and the Sustainable Development Goals.Our good friends Map Kibera are sharing their work on open, community based mapping at the Kenya National Roadmap...
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A new algorithm for finding a visual center of a polygon
We came up with a neat little algorithm that may be useful for placing labels and tooltips on polygons, accompanied by a JavaScript library. It’s now going to be used in Mapbox GL and Mapbox Studio....
View ArticleAccessible maps on iOS
Our iOS SDK includes basic support for VoiceOver, the screenreader that comes with every iPhone and iPad. Now, users with visual impairments have the same access as sighted users to the information...
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Automatic launches brand new app for your car
Automatic connects you to your car’s on-board computer so you can improve your driving, save money on gas, figure out what the check engine light means, and remember where you parked even when you...
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Find us at FOSS4G!
Photo by UNFCCC.Vladimir Agafonkin (@mourner), Johan Uhle (@freenerd), and I (@sgillies) will be in Bonn, Germany next week for FOSS4G. We’re excited to meet you there to discuss WebGL, vector tiles,...
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Mapbox ♥️ Human
We’re thrilled to welcome the incredible team behind Human to Mapbox!Our shared vision of changing the way people move around cities and understand our planet is what makes this so special. I fell in...
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Helping spatial planning decisions with fresh imagery
Recent imagery can not only help you add latest features on OpenStreetMap, but also verify if the older map data still resembles what’s on the ground or not. Our friends at the World Bank are working...
View ArticleVisualizing parking data with Spot Angels
We partnered with parking mapping company Spot Angels to visualize its street level data with Mapbox GL JS. We took a sample dataset of Detroit, MI and set up a time-series animation of the various...
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