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Dana Sulit joins Mapbox!
We’re excited to announce that Dana Sulit has joined the Mapbox team in DC! Dana will be working as a designer and developer on our labs team to design beautiful custom maps and push the boundaries of...
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Designing a wildlife map in Mapbox Studio
Using the style editing tools in Mapbox Studio, I created a custom map style for wildlife-themed visualizations. I then put my style into action to show locations of bird conservation across New York...
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Explore 1.2 billion taxi rides
Last year the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission released a massive dataset of pickup and dropoff locations, times, payment types, and other attributes for 1.2 billion trips between 2009 and...
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Making malaria history with maps
Over the last two months, our friends at the Zambia Ministry of Health, PATH, Tableau Foundation, and Alteryx mapped 99% of buildings in Livingstone District, Zambia to help make the country...
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Building heights in Mapbox Streets
We’ve pushed an update to Mapbox Streets v7 vector tiles to add heights and subparts to the buildings layer. This will be important very soon when Mapbox GL supports 3D buildings and extrusions. Until...
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Building with the Opportunity Project
Today we’re at the White House, celebrating the end of a sprint on the Opportunity Project, a collaboration among federal agencies, technologists, and communities to build digital tools with open data...
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Welcome, Tim Dougherty!
We’re excited to welcome Tim Dougherty to Mapbox here in San Francisco. Tim works on the business team and helps customers new and old understand how to take advantage of the platform. If you want to...
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Drive around your map
With Mapbox maps, Unity, and Mantle you can recreate and explore any place in the world in virtual 3D. With no prior Unity experience, a drive through San Francisco’s iconic hilly streets took me a few...
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Style-optimized vector tiles
We’re introducing a new feature for optimizing your vector tiles to give you more control over their size! Style-optimized vector tiles are smaller, served over-the-wire, and a great way to reduce the...
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Ugo Vollmer joins Mapbox!
We’re so excited to welcome Ugo Vollmer to Mapbox here in San Francisco. Ugo is joining our telemetry team to help build data-driven products for guiding semi-autonomous vehicles as part of Mapbox...
View Article3D features in Mapbox GL JS
Today we’re launching extrusions for Mapbox GL JS! Add custom, 3D visualizations to your maps by using our new extrusion properties – fill-extrude-height and fill-extrude-base– in fill layers to...
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Mapping 3D building features in OpenStreetMap
We’ve been talking a lot about 3D buildings on maps lately. Mapbox Streets buildings now include heights, and we just launched extrusions in Mapbox GL JS. Some of our coolest demos are powered by...
View ArticleViewing satellite imagery in VR
Mapbox with Unity 3D opens up new ways to showcase geospatial data. We have been experimenting with time-lapse satellite videos of Earth in VR, and are eager to share how visualizing this data could be...
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Say hello at NACIS 2016!
We arrive tomorrow in Colorado Springs for the annual meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)! We can’t wait to connect with fellow cartographers, learn new things, and...
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Shading and lighting 3D features in Mapbox GL JS
Last week we launched extrusion fill properties and light properties in Mapbox GL JS that enable exciting 3D map features like buildings as well as 3D data visualizations.3D features require shading to...
View ArticleCustom interfaces for geocoding address data
When it comes to displaying location data on a map, it’s common to have address data but not the geographic values required to display them. You can use the Mapbox Geocoding API to translate addresses...
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Welcome Bersabel!
Bersabel Tadesse has joined the Mapbox team in San Francisco! Bersabel will be working on business strategy, focusing on mobile, automotive, and gaming industries.Bersabel joins Mapbox from Hall...
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Mapbox @ IBM World of Watson
We’re heading to IBM World of Watson 2016 in Las Vegas next week!IBM and Mapbox are teaming up to change the way analysts interact with data, commuters move through cities, and insurers limit risk. See...
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Dive into large datasets with 3D shapes in Mapbox GL
Explore America’s population density down to the city block using this new visualization. We had fun using Mapbox GL JS’s new 3D features and data-driven styling to show the remarkable concentration of...
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Track your jetlag with data-driven line-color
Mapbox GL JS now supports data-driven styling for line-color, making it even easier to create stunning data visualizations. I decided to explore the capabilities of data-driven line styles by making a...
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