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Simple, Fast Map Data Editing
We are trying to make it easier to draw, change, and publish maps. Some of the most important geospatial data is the information we know, observe, and can draw on a napkin. This is the kind of data...
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We Are Growing
We just launched /jobs @MapBox. We're growing fast and looking for talented, hungry people to join the team. Check out the openings or just drop us a line at jobs@mapbox.com to tell us how you could...
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A Better OpenStreetMap.org, One Step at a Time
For the past month, we've had our heads down on a series of incremental improvements to OpenStreetMap.org. This included a new sign up workflow, an improved map UI, a new data export screen and a...
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Cloudless Landsat Preview | Vancouver
We’re working on the next release of Cloudless Atlas, processing thousands upon thousands of huge Landsat scenes. Many techniques carry over smoothly from our cloudless MODIS project, but the number of...
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London Happy Hour at Strongroom
We'll soon be on our way to State of the Map in Birmingham UK. Join us at our stop in London for a happy hour at Strongroom in Shoreditch on Wednesday September 4th to talk maps, satellite imagery and...
View ArticleFirstLook for MapBox Satellite Live
We are getting closer to launching MapBox Satellite Live! Over the past month we focused on our pipeline's integration with DigitalGlobe's FirstLook imagery service. FirstLook is a custom monitoring...
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User-Friendly Guided Feature Extraction: Extending the iD Editor
We want to make it easy to extract features from precise, current satellite imagery and add them to your map in iD. Feature extraction has been a topic in GIS for decades, but has never been intuitive...
View ArticleWhat's New in TIGER 2013
On Thursday, the US Census Bureau released the 2013 version of TIGER, its base map of the United States. Here is a first rendering of the new TIGER 2013 dataset. Changes in the 2013 edition are in...
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Open Source Mapping in Ramallah
Today I've arrived in the city of Ramallah to connect with technologists, civic activists, and students at TechCamp Ramallah. The TechCamp kicks off tomorrow and will bring together organizations from...
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Newseum Launches Civil Rights Map
The Newseum has started using MapBox in its Digital Classroom. Coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, they've combined maps and markers with their amazing archive of...
View ArticleThe World’s Highest Resolution Map of Global Temperature from Forecast.io
Check out the heat of daylight sweep across the Sahara in this animation of the world's highest resolution temperature data from Forecast.io. Or zoom in to see the microclimates across the San...
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Off to Europe: Let's Catch Up in London, Birmingham, Paris, Berlin
GPS tracks on OpenStreetMap by Eric FischerWe're getting on our way to Europe today, making stops in London, Birmingham, Berlin, and Paris. Looking forward to catching up with a ton of folks at one or...
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Facebook Rival VK Goes MapBox
VK, second largest social network in Europe, switched to MapBox maps September 1st. Its 47 million daily users now see their stories, photos and messages all mapped on MapBox maps. The switch from...
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Berlin Happy Hour at Pratergarten
On our tour through Europe Eric and myself will join Konstantin for a couple of days working out of Berlin. Let's meet up to chat maps, satellite imagery and OpenStreetMap over a beer at Pratergarten...
View ArticleVote for Our Session at SXSW: Only One Day Left!
Vote for our mapping session @SXSW! - there is only 1 day left for voting! We are teaming up with our friends at Gnip, who we partnered with to map 3 billion tweets. Eric @MapBox and Ian @Gnip will...
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World Satellite Business Week
We are heading to Paris today for World Satellite Business Week, an international conference bringing together more than 600 senior-level executives and government representatives from the global...
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Visualizing Building Age in the Netherlands
All 9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands were mapped and shaded according to their year of construction in the map above. The map was created by Bert Spaan using TileMill, similar to the Portland and...
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OpenStreetMap's Contributor Community Visualized - Individual by Individual
OpenStreetMap is created every day by thousands of users logging in and improving the map. Here is a visualization of this amazing social fabric of individuals working together. We generated a color...
View ArticleAdd MapBox to iOS 7 with One Line of Code
You can now add totally custom MapBox maps to any iOS 7 app in one line of code using our new MBXMapKit, which leverages new changes in Apple's MapKit software to allow greater customization on both...
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Marc Prioleau Joins the Board of Directors
Marc Prioleau, a long time player in the geo space just joined our Board of Directors and is specifically focused to help us grow smart as we continue to expand the team.Marc has been a good friend and...
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