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Find us at the DC Android Summit
This week Mapbox will be at the DC Android Summit, a two-day multi-track event focused on designing, developing, and testing for Android. Look out for my talk, Build Your Own Ride Sharing App on...
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Kara Mahoney joins Mapbox!
We’re thrilled to welcome Kara Mahoney to Mapbox! Kara is joining us in DC to work on security, data pipelines, and preparing our APIs for offline and specialized deployments.Before joining Mapbox,...
View ArticleMapbox GL JS in a Reactive application
We use React to build Mapbox Studio, demos, and many other parts of our website. React, along with Redux, and Immutable.js, forms a new standard for building web applications that yields good and...
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Announcing the Mapbox Studio dataset editor
Today we are opening up access for all users to the Mapbox Studio dataset editor, a brand new tool for creating and editing geospatial data in your browser. The dataset editor integrates seamlessly...
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Find us at QtCon!
Thiago (@tmpsantos) and I (@brunoabinader) will be attending QtCon in Berlin next week - the biggest Qt event in Europe specifically for developers. I will also give a talk on Mapbox Drive and our...
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Nadia Barbosa joins Mapbox!
We are thrilled to welcome Nadia Barbosa to Mapbox! Nadia is joining us on the Support team, answering troubleshooting questions and working on our Help documentation to give our users the best...
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Erin Quinn joins Mapbox!
We’re delighted to welcome Erin Quinn, who is joining the Mapbox business team in DC! They’ll be diving in to work with enterprise customers and help bring new companies to the Mapbox platform.Prior to...
View ArticleMapping historic Boston in the Mapbox Studio dataset editor
I recently created a historical map of Boston using the new Mapbox Studio dataset editor.The geographic footprint of Boston has changed drastically over the past several hundred years. Luckily, there...
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Custom dynamic markers with the Mapbox iOS SDK and PaintCode
Using PaintCode and the Mapbox iOS SDK, we can create a workflow for custom markers and interface elements in an app without paying a price in performance or busywork.Building visually rich,...
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Launch of Map for Environment, unprecedented environmental data in the commons
Our friends Moabi are launching Map for Environment, working with OpenStreetMap to monitor the world’s natural resources, and addressing the toughest problems facing our planet.From space, the earth’s...
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Mapping U.S. wildfire data from public feeds
With the Mapbox Datasets API, you can create data-based maps that continuously update. As new data arrives, you can push incremental changes to your datasets, then update connected tilesets or use the...
View ArticleLearn C++ at GridKa School this Thursday!
I will be attending GridKa School at KIT Campus North in Karlsruhe next week — a summer school for advanced computing techniques.Thursday, 1st September:11:00 am – 6:00 pm: Modern & Idiomatic C++14...
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Interactive 3D maps in Unity
Mantle, the game engine plugin for designing 3D maps in Unity, just leaked screenshots of its new 3D terrain and maps. Developers are no longer constrained to a limited geographic area, they can now...
View ArticleOpen data and traffic fatalities
Traffic fatalities in the U.S. jumped 7.2% to 35,092 last year, the sharpest increase in about 50 years. Yesterday the NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) released final 2015 data on...
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Creating accurate 3D building shadows in Unity
The new Mantle plugin for Unity, which adds real world terrain and streets to games, allows full control over lighting. Being able to simulate real world lighting conditions is key for creating...
View ArticleChinese, Japanese, and Korean glyph support in GL
We just rolled out improved support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) labels in Mapbox GL JS and GL Native. With our GL improvements that accommodate a larger glyph atlas and character range,...
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2016 White House LGBT Tech & Innovation Briefing
Last week I was honored to attend the third annual White House LGBT Tech & Innovation Briefing. Over 200 LGBTQ tech professionals convened at the White House to discuss how the tech community can...
View ArticleInfinite possibilities with iOS annotation views
We recently released our iOS SDK 3.3 with the powerful new functionality of the MGLAnnotationView class, letting developers bring in anything they can create—or have created already—in native iOS views...
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New maps for Ushahidi
Ushahidi has recently switched to Mapbox Streets and Satellite! Ushahidi is an influential crowdsourcing platform that allows users to gather data from a variety of devices with custom surveys and...
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Open mapping with UW's Cartography Lab
This week, Sam, Molly, Angelina, and I represented Mapbox at the University of Wisconsin’s Cartography Lab Education Series Workshop in Madison. The series provides a regular forum for students,...
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