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Run the Catalina Eco Marathon in 3D
This past Saturday, ambitious runners took on the Catalina Eco Marathon, a race that loops around California’s Santa Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles. To visualize the mountainous path...
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OpenStreetMap Geoweek in Ayacucho
English version below.El equipo de Mapbox estuvo ocupado durante la Semana de Concientización Geográfica. Nuestra oficina de Ayacucho organizó un mapatón el viernes pasado para crear conciencia sobre...
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Exploring NYC Open Data with 3D hexbins
We’re always looking for interesting data to explore with Mapbox tools, so when we found this cool dataset of 311 incident reports from NYC Open Data we had to check it out. In the map below, built...
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Jayana joins Mapbox!
We’re stoked to welcome Jayana Charles to the operations team at Mapbox Bangalore. Jayana will work on everything from creating an amazing work space for our team, supporting event logistics and...
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3DR combines drone imagery with Autodesk
3D Robotics’ new app, Site Scan, combines imagery from their construction drone, Mapbox maps, and AutoCAD data to prevent expensive mistakes on constructions sites. Site Scan is the first end-to-end...
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MongoDB 3.4 now features Mapbox in Compass
MongoDB’s new 3.4 release now includes Compass with maps powered by Mapbox. Compass’s intuitive UI enables anyone on your team, from data scientists to developers to nontechnical team members, to run...
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Mapping with action cams, Mapillary and OpenStreetMap
Mapillary has made mapping with street level imagery in OpenStreetMap accessible to anyone. Simply take pictures from your phone using the Mapillary app, hit upload and use them directly in...
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Announcing Mapbox.cn
Today we are announcing Mapbox.cn, making Mapbox available at high speed in China. We are expanding our global Mapbox API infrastructure to bring the fastest possible service to anyone using our maps...
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Welcome Miles!
We’re excited to welcome Miles Sackler to Mapbox! Working closely with the business and engineering teams, Miles will help enterprise users build amazing applications with Mapbox.Before joining Mapbox,...
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Cory joins Mapbox!
Big welcome to Cory Guillory who has joined the Mapbox team in DC!Cory works with Enterprise customers, putting together agreements and helping connect companies with the tools they need to build...
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Open Mapping at OGP Summit 2016
Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit week is here, hosted by this year’s chair France. After the 2015 OGP Summit’s Open Mapping efforts, we are excited that open mapping will play an even bigger...
View ArticleBuild Mapbox GL JS plugins
We spend days making sure that our maps are rendered quickly and beautifully, but that’s only part of what online maps are. Maps aren’t just a canvas for data: they’re also the zoom controls, scale...
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Kevin joins Mapbox!
We’re excited to welcome Kevin Fu who is joining the Mapbox business team! Kevin will be working out of the DC Garage, where he’ll help grow our enterprise customer base.Kevin joins us from DC-based...
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Un nuevo mapero en OpenStreetMap, el Presidente del Perú Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
English version below.Ayer, el Presidente del Perú, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski visitó a nuestro equipo en Ayacucho, aprendiendo sobre Mapbox y contribuyendo su primera edición a OpenStreetMap, la base de...
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Gokul Ganesan joins Mapbox!
We’re excited to welcome Gokul Ganesan to Mapbox! Gokul joins our team to improve OpenStreetMap and other datasets using satellite imagery, telemetry, and customer feedback.Gokul completed his master’s...
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Styling 3D buildings in Unity
The upcoming Mapbox Unity SDK is designed to bring full map capabilities to Unity. In this example built with the Mapbox Unity SDK, we applied a set of building facade images as textures to Mapbox...
View ArticleTake the 2016 OpenStreetMap US Census!
This year the OpenStreetMap US community is conducting a census! They want to learn more about who is mapping, why they’re doing it, and how to continue growing and nurturing the community.If you...
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Welcome, Sam Kronick!
We’re excited to welcome Sam Kronick to Mapbox! Sam joins our labs team in San Francisco to push on new projects in Mapbox GL and beyond.Before Mapbox, Sam founded 💾🌵 (“Disk Cactus”), an Oakland art...
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Using Mapbox to tackle cities' challenges
In September, we announced Mapbox Cities and started looking for three cities we can work with to solve the biggest urban challenges. Since then, more than 70 cities from six continents applied, laying...
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Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
We’re helping to bring two of the largest open data projects closer together - OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. Wikidata is the free knowledge base that anyone can edit. It has grown to over 24 million...
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