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Healthy community patterns of contribution in OpenStreetMap
The Association of American Geographers will host the second annual AAG Mapathon this week in Boston, and Jennings Anderson, a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder, will be there to share...
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Welcome, Anand Thakker!
Anand Thakker just joined Mapbox! Anand comes to us from our good friends at Development Seed, where he frequently used and contributed to Mapbox GL JS while working on projects ranging from rural...
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Create your own cognitive spatial app
Remember the app we built with IBM, to help SXSW participants discover a personalized event feed? Register now for tomorrow’s webinar How IBM and Mapbox Put Open Data and Real-Time Recommendations On...
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¡Hola, México! Fresh satellite photos for Mexican cities
We’ve just refreshed our satellite imagery for Mexico, with nearly half a million square kilometers of new imagery for cities and countryside across the nation. Our updates reach from Jalisco in the...
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A complete turn-by-turn navigation UI in your iOS application
The new Mapbox Navigation SDK for iOS makes it easy to add a complete turn-by-turn navigation experience to your iOS application. The navigation SDK builds upon our January releases of core navigation...
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Mapbox in Portlandia
While Portland is best known for its bikes, donuts, and DIY culture, it’s also a city that’s pushed boundaries through thoughtful urban planning and celebration of art and design. This month, Mapbox...
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You’ll find now height data for 140,484 San Francisco buildings in our maps. We have partnered with the San Francisco OpenStreetMap community to add this data directly into OpenStreetMap from where...
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We switched to Amazon ECS and you won't believe what happened next
The Mapbox platform is powered by Amazon Web Services — specifically, most of our computing workloads run on AWS EC2. We’re in the process of wrapping up a company-wide migration (led by the Platform...
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Welcome, Mugdha Bhattacharya!
Mugdha just joined the Operations team at Mapbox Bangalore, where she’ll focus on building systems and processes around recruiting and onboarding. She’ll also work on creating strong people support...
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Hello, Explorer: The new Mapbox logo
As the astronaut looks up at the stars, she’s ready to explore. Our team is driven by curiosity. An astronaut’s helmet, reflecting a star in the distance, embodies our ambitions to build the platform...
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Showcase your business on GoDaddy with custom location tools
GoDaddy has launched GoCentral to help businesses everywhere build better websites. We’re thrilled to help power GoDaddy with effective location tools that combine the Mapbox Streets style, GL JS, and...
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Introducing the Navigation SDK for Android
We’ve just released the Mapbox Navigation SDK for Android, making it easy to include a complete navigation experience from within your application. With the Navigation SDK, your users stay engaged and...
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1.7 million buildings mapped to fight malaria
Over the past few months, nearly 3,000 contributors have traced almost 1.7 million buildings, in a coordinated effort to map 500,000 km² of the malaria-affected world.Volunteers use satellite imagery...
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Going from Caches to Cash on AWS using the EC2 Spot Market
Caching increases map performance significantly, improving the experience for hundreds of millions of people zooming around our map. In addition to using a global edge network that brings our maps as...
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Redux for state management in large web apps
Building a state management system around Redux has allowed us to keep the complex Mapbox Studio (our version of Photoshop for maps) codebase manageable and testable. We’ve used Redux to establish...
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Say hello to the Studio Preview app
We just released Mapbox Studio Preview on the App Store. Studio Preview, a companion app to Mapbox Studio, allows you to view any map style directly from your device. Whether you’re prototyping a new...
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Designing live traffic
Our new traffic maps are live in our API! Take a look at the changes we’ve made to our traffic cartography in these side by side images:Improved color classification for live trafficWe shifted the...
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Welcome, Olivia Brundage!
Olivia Brundage has joined the security team at Mapbox in D.C., where she’ll be focused on enhancing our auditing and monitoring tools and further developing our procedures for internal penetration...
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WGS84 precision in Unity World Space
Placing features on a map in the correct geographic coordinates requires precision and accuracy to match the real world locations. We’ve created a data structure in Unity for geo coordinates to match...
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Efficient multi-stop routes with the Optimization API
Today we’re launching the Optimization API, which lets you quickly optimize multi-stop itineraries. You can pass up to 12 locations to the API and it will return the optimal order for making the stops...
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