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A whole new Earth for tracing on OpenStreetMap
Today, two new global satellite imagery layers are live for tracing on OpenStreetMap, courtesy of DigitalGlobe. Now, mappers have even more sources of high quality, recent imagery layers to trace,...
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Duda launches with Mapbox to add drag and drop maps
Duda has launched a new map tool in its website builder to help web professionals, marketing agencies, and small businesses create websites that attract more customers.Customers can find their business...
View ArticleOptimize trips using Mapbox Android Services v2.1
Mapbox Android Services (MAS) provides an out of the box solution for adding Directions, Geocoding, Map Matching, and more inside your Java and Android applications. The latest v2.1 release of MAS now...
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Deprecating streambot: a poem
Today, the Platform team completed the deprecation of streambot, which was our open-source, homegrown solution for providing Lambda functions with environment variables and connectors to read from...
View ArticleIntroducing plugins for Android
You can now contribute to the Mapbox Mobile SDK with plugins. Plugins are single-purpose libraries built on top of our mobile SDK to include in your apps, like any other library dependency.Splitting...
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OpenAddresses has 440M points. How can we tell when we're done?
Michal Migurski’s contributions to the open data community are almost too numerous to count. Most recently, Mapbox has been pleased to support his work on the OpenAddresses project, including more...
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Find your missing items with TrackR's mobile maps
Tracking the things you hate to lose the most just got an upgrade. TrackR’s small and lightweight devices - including TrackR bravo, TrackR wallet, and the new TrackR pixel - now help people find over...
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Oh, the places you'll go (with the Geocoding team)!
We have one simple mission on the Geocoding team: know about every place in the world. To accomplish our goal, we incorporate place data from dozens of sources and leverage wikidata to handle requests...
View ArticleCustom Stories bring maps to Snapchat
Snapchat now lets you and your friends drop a pin on a map and collect all of your snaps in that area into custom Stories. You choose who can view your snaps and which friends can post to your custom...
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Scaling open maps for Jakarta flooding
To streamline disaster response to flooding in Indonesia, PetaBencana.id, a natural disaster map, uses open source tools, open data, and Mapbox services.As a coastal city with over 13 rivers, Jakarta...
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Carto-cam, the map designer's quality-assurance tool
One of the biggest challenges of making a map in Studio is knowing if it looks good everywhere in the world. When designing a map, you’re not just making choices about colors and typography, you’re...
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A friendlier introduction to editing OpenStreetMap
Getting started with editing OpenStreetMap can be intimidating to someone who has never edited a map before. I recently spent time improving the iD editor walkthrough, a tutorial that guides new users...
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MicroStrategy upgrades data visualization offering
MicroStrategy and Mapbox just partnered up to bring smooth and fast Mapbox vector maps to MicroStrategy’s more than 4,000 business intelligence customers across the globe. Maps will soon be embedded...
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Introducing Mapbox Enterprise Boundaries
Starting today, Mapbox Enterprise users can add global administrative and postal boundaries to their maps and data visualizations.Explore the full coverage map.The data coverage is incredibly rich,...
View ArticleAmazon Alexa skills can use navigation and traffic
I just spent a few hours connecting our directions and traffic APIs to Alexa. Here is the step by step how this works:Decide on the intentsFor most bots, the first thing you need to decide is the...
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Doordash launches with maps on mobile apps
We all know what it feels like to be hangry, that grumbling feeling where hunger and anger meet. A full day outside or a meeting that runs through the lunch hour can get you to this place pretty...
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Navigation and maps for Qt Automotive
We’ve partnered with the Qt Company to bring Mapbox maps to Qt and the Qt Automotive Suite. The latest Qt 5.9 version now ships with vector-based maps and APIs for navigation, customized design and the...
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Introducing Mapbox Enterprise Boundaries
Starting today, Mapbox Enterprise users can add global administrative and postal boundaries to their maps and data visualizations.Explore the full coverage map.The data coverage is incredibly rich,...
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DoorDash's new maps
DoorDash upgraded the app all of us use to track the status of our food obsessively. The new consumer-facing app keeps us patient as we wait for our food with a new map showing a custom Dasher icon...
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Navigation and maps for Qt Automotive
The Qt Automotive Suite (Qt 5.9) now ships with vector-based maps and APIs for navigation, customized design and the ability to layer in your own data. This makes fast, GL rendered maps available to a...
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