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Where’s your district’s next Town Hall?
Redesigning a map to increase civic engagementBy: Dylan MoriartyDylan Moriarty is a cartographer & designer who recently joined The Wall Street Journal as an interactive designer. He’s also worked...
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Accessible maps for blindness or visual impairment on iOS
VoiceOver screen reader support in our map SDKBy: Minh NguyễnMapbox iOS SDK v3.7.0 will introduce full compatibility with the VoiceOver screen reader built into iOS. This ensures that those with...
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No GPS, no phones: Paper maps and 36 rally cars
All photos provided by Rebelle RallyBy: Brynne MorrisThirty-six all-women race teams just started the started the 2,000 kilometers 8 day race across Nevada and California deserts. The first couple days...
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Double bounty for top Hack the World report
Improve security through bug bounty competitionBy: Kara MahoneyMapbox is participating in HackerOne’s Hack the World event, their largest hacking competition of the year. All reports submitted to the...
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2 cm drone imagery of damage to Coffey Park and Journey’s End in Santa Rosa
By: Paul GoodmanSonoma County and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office just released two-centimeter drone imagery of Coffey Park and Journey’s End after last week’s Tubbs Fire. Government officials are...
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Indoor mapping in Unity
By: Baran KahyaogluThe Unity Maps SDK lets you create indoor maps. Here is the floor plan of our office in San Francisco recreated in the Mapbox Studio dataset editor. The floor plan is made using the...
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New GeoJSON plugin for Android
Contribute plugins to our open source SDKsBy: Langston SmithRetrieve and draw GeoJSON data for your Android applications using our GeoJSON plugin. You can fetch the data via a URL, a file stored in the...
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Marena Brinkhurst joins Mapbox!
By: Mikel MaronMarena Brinkhurst joins the Mapbox team in San Francisco. As a member of our Community team, she supports non-profits, social ventures, and other organizations using Mapbox tools for...
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Mapping the Rebelle Rally: Kibby Dry Lake and the Dumont Dunes
All images provided by Rebelle Rally.By: Brynne MorrisRebelle Rally, the 2,000 kilometers 8 day race across Nevada and California deserts, is underway.Drivers no longer return to basecamp — for the...
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Paper style maps in Unity
By: Baran KahyaogluMap styles created in Mapbox Studio can be added to the Unity Maps SDK, incorporating terrain and 3D buildings. I love the texturized feel of AJ Ashton’s pencil drawn style, and I...
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Are San Francisco buildings as tall as they could be?
A new picture of the SF housing crisis using zone and building heightsBy: Asheem MamoowalaSan Francisco has been in the midst of a housing shortage since the early 1990’s. While there isn’t much room...
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Announcing Expressions in GL JS
More powerful ways to custom style spatial dataBy: Anand ThakkerToday we’re introducing Mapbox GL expressions, available in the latest version of Mapbox GL JS (v0.41.0). Expressions build on...
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Hundreds of thousands of polygons rendered on the fly
A better data vis tool for comparing property assessmentsBy: Erin QuinnIs it possible to custom style every single building in an entire city on a map? This is the question Eugene Chen, of Darkhorse...
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Manhattan live traffic in Unity
Sunday night around Central Park, camera angle looking slightly south-westBy: Baran KahyaogluYou can stream traffic into maps in Unity using our Maps SDK for Unity. Traffic data works just like adding...
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Tracing Hurricane Maria’s wake
By: Scott FarleyIt has been over a month since Hurricane Maria made landfall on the island of Puerto Rico, destroying critical infrastructure and leaving millions of Americans without power, roads, or...
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Turn-by-turn navigation for motorcycles
How NaviRider built a custom map and navigation experienceBy: Chelsea GoddardThe fastest route isn’t always what bikers need. Criteria like curviness, road quality, scenery, and elevation gain, can be...
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Designing maps with density in mind
By: Amy Lee WaltonThe design principle of density involves the finessing of both timing and intention in your map style. While map features may become available at a certain zoom level, features should...
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Build data streams and lakes
By: Mick ThompsonAt Mapbox we ❤️ working with data in streams, lakes, and other geographic features. We are a mapping company after all.We’re building the future of data infrastructure, and we use our...
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Welcome Ouliana Trofimenko — Head of Technical Talent Acquisition @ Mapbox
By: Zaina OrbaiOuliana Trofimenko just joined our team as Head of Talent Acquisition supporting technical teams. Previously, she was the Head of Talent Acquisition at Quid, leading the company through...
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Introducing heatmaps in Mapbox GL JS
By: Vladimir AgafonkinCircle (left) and heatmap (right) layers representing earthquakes in CaliforniaWith the 0.41 release of Mapbox GL JS (and mobile SDKs to follow), we’re introducing heatmaps — a...
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