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Watch solar panel installations bloom in San Diego
By: Chris LoerBy turning raw geospatial data into beautiful, interactive, and informative maps, we’re able to understand cities and urban trends in new ways. Recently we held an internal hack day, and...
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Say hello to JaNelle Hasty!
By: Julie MunroWe’re thrilled to welcome JaNelle Hasty to Mapbox! JaNelle will work across teams to direct the strategy and experience of Mapbox’s inaugural user conference.Prior to joining Mapbox,...
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Welcome, Langston Smith!
By: Antonio ZugaldiaWe’re excited to welcome Langston Smith to Mapbox! Langston joins our Android team where he’ll be helping us build new products for the Android platform and also developing some...
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Announcing the Store Locator Kit for Android
By: Lindsay YoungWe’ve just released the Android Store Locator Kit, a plug-and-play solution that cuts down on the set-up and development time needed to add a beautiful store locator into your app....
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Data underneath
Adding context to data visualizationsBy: Sam KronickContext is everything in data visualization — where is data in relation to things you recognize like roads, counties, streets, or rivers? How can you...
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Tracking storms with The Weather Channel’s newest app
By: Hannah JudgeThe new Storm Radar app from The Weather Channel is a full-screen interactive map that puts detailed weather and storm tracking data directly in the hands of users. The app pulls storm...
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Add geofencing to your on-demand app
By: Amy GhateOn-demand logistics companies deliver your Amazon packages, your DoorDash meals, the car you rented with Getaround, and the taxi you hailed with Lyft. Geofencing — virtual boundaries...
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Visualizing 1,000 flights a day at DXB
By: Erin QuinnDubai International Airport (DXB) is the world’s busiest hub for international air travel. All 1,000+ daily flights heading to more than 240 destinations are visualized on this map built...
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Mapbox + ARKit for a safer commute
By: Lindsay YoungVision Zero is San Francisco’s policy commitment to eliminate all traffic-related fatalities by 2024. Over 200 people annually are severely injured or killed in traffic collisions on...
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Open mapping for disasters and development
By: Marena BrinkhurstThis week, the 2017 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Summit, co-hosted by Statistics Canada in Ottawa, comes at an incredibly timely moment. We gather to take stock of the...
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Keep the ARKit hacks coming
By: Lindsay YoungIn the past few months, we’ve seen some cool projects built with ARKit and our Unity Maps SDK. We’ve been experimenting ourselves with new Unity and ARKit libraries that make it easier...
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A new kind of map: it’s about time
By: Peter LiuHow would you describe your morning commute?If you’re like most people, it starts with a ballpark estimate of how long it usually takes. Or maybe several estimates, depending on when you...
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Mapbox GL JS + React
By: Tristen BrownWhen we build web applications at Mapbox we often turn to React and Mapbox GL JS. The goals of each library work powerfully in combination and I’d like to share some techniques into...
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Pathfinders Sketches: Cartographers at Official Automobile Blue Book company
Early US automobile route mapsBy: Nat SlaughterThe series of pathfinder sketches below are turn-by-turn directions published in the 1911 Motor Age magazine. At a time when automotive travel was...
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Location & AR for Unity at VRDC San Francisco and Unite Austin
By: Siyu SongLet’s get together and talk location, AR and Unity. This week we’ll be at the Virtual Reality Developer’s Conference (VRDC) in San Francisco and in two weeks at Unity’s annual user...
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Share and discover travel stories with the Trips app
By: Hannah JudgeTrips — the latest mobile app from Lonely Planet — is a new way to share stories about the places you travel. The app also makes it easier to discover things to do; you can search trips...
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Joe Clark joins Mapbox!
By: Dan SwickWe are excited to have Joe Clark on the team. Joe comes to us from Portland, Oregon. He is joining the support team helping our users feel confident and excited about our tools and...
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Travel is all about location
By: Noemi WalzebuckWith more travelers booking on-the-go in far-reaching places, our tools are powering more and more travel apps focused on slick UX and key features like offline support. Customers...
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Say hello to Jacob!
By: David RhodesWe’re excited to introduce Jacob Ellena, the newest member of the Mapbox team!Jacob is on the Developer Engagement team, working with developers using Unity and our Maps for Unity SDK....
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Introducing jsxtreme-markdown
Hacking together a new way to use React components and markdownBy: John FurrowRecently, the Mapbox Design team was exploring ways to leverage the power of Javascript and React components without losing...
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