Build your next IoT project with Mapbox
A couple of weeks ago Google announced Android Things, which brings official Android support to popular IoT devices like Raspberry Pi 3, Intel Edison, or NXP Pico.This means that you can use all the...
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Mapping wind barbs to show speed and direction
Wind barbs are ideal for visualizing wind patterns over a large area: they point in the direction of travel, and their length and notches at the end denote velocity at each position. For example, a...
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Welcome Kathleen Lu!
We’re excited to welcome Kathleen Lu to Mapbox! As an IP specialist, Kathleen will focus on Mapbox’s open source and open data frameworks and our copyright, patent, and trademark policies.Kathleen...
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Adding POIs in OpenStreetMap: Osmic JOSM style
When you’re adding POI’s with JOSM, the default map paint style can make it hard to see the POI’s already mapped. I found this awesome osmic-josm-style plugin that enables icons on all POI’s.This style...
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Ski maps for travel apps
I’m designing a new ski map in Studio; highlighting the elevation in the terrain, showing each ski trail, and showing all the gondolas and chair lifts going up the mountain. tl;dr scroll to the bottom...
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Grilling! and other new Maki icons
A grilling icon for the 13,216 tags in OpenStreetMap where amenity=bbq. All part of our Maki updates this week, which include 21 new Maki icons.The full catalogue of 310 Maki icons are all open source,...
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Visualize the USA's economic recovery with client-side data joins
The GIF above visualizes the unemployment rate for each county in the United States in the years surrounding the Great Recession. At a glance, you can see the unemployment rate reach its peak in late...
View ArticleMapping the Women's March on America
Tomorrow is the Women’s March on Washington, as well as hundreds of sister marches and events around the country and world. I teamed up with some of the folks organizing the march to map all the events...
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Security on the AWS edge at Enigma 2017
I gave a presentation at AWS re:Invent in December, where I shared how Mapbox uses different AWS edge services to achieve high availability and low latency for our customers around the world. I get...
View ArticleIntegrate turn-by-turn navigation into your iOS app
We just open-sourced MapboxNavigation.swift, our navigation SDK for iOS applications written in Swift or Objective-C. When your users want directions, don’t push them out of your application into a...
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Creating storm cells out of weather data feeds
Storm cells indicate how powerful storms are and where they’re headed. Each cell is made up of multiple data points - from speed to severity - which makes for a unique mapping challenge, similar to our...
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Build better buildings with indoor maps
The U.S. construction industry generates 37 million blueprints each year. 90% of contractors keep those blueprints on paper. Project Atlas turns blueprints into maps – ingesting thousands of drawings...
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Build the next Pokémon Go with Mapbox + Unity
The Niantic team, creator of Pokémon Go, did amazing work in creating an iconic map style as a canvas for its game. Here’s how to build a map for location-based games with additional detail like...
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Welcome Lauren Butin!
We’re excited to welcome Lauren Butin who is joining the Mapbox finance team! Lauren will be working out of the DC garage where she will help scale our financial systems.Prior to joining Mapbox, Lauren...
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Validating and protecting OpenStreetMap
Our maps are built by contributors from around the world, sharing information on the places they know and love on OpenStreetMap. Through this extensive network, changes to road networks, buildings, and...
View ArticleMap the weather along your route
Wondering whether a downpour will gridlock your commute or a snowstorm will delay your trip to the mountains? You can pair Mapbox Directions with API-based weather data to view both traffic and weather...
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Welcome, GOES-16!
The newest weather satellite, NOAA’s GOES-16, took a test picture of the whole Western Hemisphere last week:Image: NASA/NOAAThe new GOES series, with their cousins Himawari 8 and 9 from Japan, are a...
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Improving Arabic and Hebrew text in map labels
Mapbox GL JS now supports Arabic and Hebrew text with an optional plugin, and the next releases of our iOS and Android SDKs will include support out of the box. This also extends to languages like...
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Bringing real-world places into your game
Here’s an example of how we used Unity and the Mapbox Unity SDK to integrate real-world points of interest into your game world. Read along to learn how we used select real shops and parks as locations...
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Better (re)routing with accurate turn bearings
When it comes to building turn-by-turn navigation, getting the rerouting interaction right is critical to user experience but it’s also challenging due to noisy GPS. Missing a turn can mean you’re...
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