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Optimizing pickups and drop-offs

Finding the fastest route for a multi-stop trip By: Karen SheaOur Optimization API now supports a feature that allows you to indicate which coordinates are pickup points and which are drop-off points....

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Designing the Decimal Map Style

By: Tristen BrownDecimal is a minimalist map style that works great as a base for data visualizations or as a backdrop for your next game. It’s easy to customize, give it a try.Behind the designI...

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Bike ride with ARKit: How I built it

By: Adam Debreczenibody[data-twttr-rendered="true"] {background-color: transparent;}.twitter-tweet {margin: auto !important;}My bike ride in AR. (Unity + ARKit + Mapbox + Strava)...

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Light and Dark maps for data visualization

By: Ryan BaumannMapbox Light & Dark map styles are optimized for data visualization. Our cartography team carefully crafted Light and Dark to help tell your story with data.A good base map for data...

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The new Map Icon Editor

A better way to recolor highway shields to match your map styleBy: Alex ParlatoWe’re building an editor to help customize our highway shield and rail icons. While similar to our icon editor for the...

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Dots vs. polygons: How I choose the right visualization

Tell the best story with your dataBy: Amy Lee WaltonWhen I start designing a map I consider: How do I want the viewer to read the information on my map? Do I want them to see how a measurement varies...

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GPSengine and the future of AR: How I built it

By: Jeremy McCleanGPSengine, an Australia-based vehicle tracking platform, recently launched a unique demo with our Unity Maps SDK. The application communicates with the company’s existing platform to...

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Welcome Zaina Orbai

Welcome Zaina Orbai — VP of People @MapboxBy: Eric GundersenZaina Orbai, former VP of Global HR Operations at Yelp, just joined our team as VP of People — laying the foundation for the team during this...

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Fighting Patent Trolls on Capitol Hill

By: Tom LeeWe just testified before Congress about the need for patent reform to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the internet. In the hearing, I shared some of...

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Wall Street’s Q2 forecast for Apple’s iPhones was spot on and what that means...

By: Ceci AlvarezARKit is part of the most important platform that Apple created since the app store, and the market opportunity to make augmented reality (AR) mainstream is huge. Apple’s latest public...

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Terminal: Cyberpunk map style

By: Saman Bemel BenrudShadowy buildings and high-tech pathways come together in this mysterious, futuristic map style. Customize it with new fonts, icons, and colors to make it your...

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Mapbox Denver meetup

We’re in Denver on August 17th, and we’ll be hosting a meetup at Rhein Haus to talk through maps, share engineering best practices, and enjoy some drinks together. Join us!Mapbox is the location data...

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Using maps and location services with ARKit

By: Jesse BoundsSince ARKit’s release, it’s been exciting to see what developers can build with our maps, data layers, and location APIs. To help more people get started, I’ve created a small native...

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Exploring the world with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap

By: Bharata SrinivasaWe are excited to be at Wikimania 2017 to meet this incredible community, and exchange ideas on bringing together two amazing open data projects — Wikidata and...

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Offline navigation embedded in cars

Access to maps, data, and directions without a connectionBy: Will WhiteMapbox now supports full offline in-dash navigation. You can run automotive applications with turn-by-turn directions, maps, and...

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Gruntify’s new maps for data collaboration

By: Hunter RobertsonGruntify makes managing fieldworkers easier with its cloud platform and enterprise mapping service. Incident management, unplanned maintenance, inspections, surveys, and audits all...

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AR on Android with Tango + Unity + Cats

By: Dan NesfederWe loved this awesome example of a bike route captured with the Strava app and visualized using the Maps Unity SDK and Apple’s ARKit. The question was could we recreate it on...

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Dancing buildings with Mapbox GL

By: John FirebaughThe Mapbox GL team has made it our mission to give you complete control over the appearance and behavior of your map, enabling location-based apps that are interactive, creative,...

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New Unity Maps SDK release

Cache tiles, load maps faster, and explore new ways to visualize mapsBy: David RhodesWe’re super excited about the latest version of our Mapbox Unity SDK. You can view all of the updates and new...

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Leveraging Mapbox for location-intelligent analytics in Tableau

A guest post by Anya A’HearnTableau users love adding Mapbox background maps in Tableau to really enhance their data visualizations and dashboards. You can upload your own geographic data to provide...

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