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National Geographic Uses MapBox to Track Their Digital Nomad
After releasing their wonderful City Guides app, National Geographic has started rolling MapBox into their web platform. The travels, tweets, and photographs of Andrew Evans, Digital Nomad, are posted...
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Leaflet Creator Vladimir Agafonkin Joins MapBox
We're excited to announce that Vladimir Agafonkin, the creator of Leaflet and lots of other great open-source mapping tools, has joined MapBox. Ever since we switched MapBox.js to Leaflet, we've been...
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Headed to United Nations to talk about open data for a green economy
I'm on my way to Geneva for a technical workshop with the UN Environmental Program. In my talk I will be focusing on the role of open data solutions and maps as a framework to measure development,...
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Dynamic hill shading in the browser
What if the map on your iPhone was responsive, changing the shadows based on the time of day? We're experimenting with this new level of customizable maps. From planning a hike at a particular time to...
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Monitoring DC Gunfire with Hundreds of Acoustic Sensors
Hundreds of acoustic sensors are monitoring gunfire across DC. The full interactive map visualizing hotspots is now live on The Washington Post. The DC Police Department started using ShotSpotter 8...
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Eden Halperin Joins MapBox
Eden Halperin just joined the MapBox team in SF! Drawing from his background in interaction design, data visualization, and mobile product design, Eden will be jumping into his role as a designer with...
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Redesigning mapbox.com
We just deployed a redesign of mapbox.com, with a new editor UI that's faster, easier to use, and more forward-thinking. The redesign is just the start of rethinking our entire .com experience. We've...
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Base: a styleguide and CSS framework for MapBox
We just launched a complete redesign of mapbox.com. With it came an opportunity to re-think how we manage styles and assets across the components that make up mapbox.com. The goal is simple: if...
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Growing @MapBox Satellite
Our satellite team is growing. We just listed an opening for an image processing engineer, but this is part of a much bigger play as we expand our Cloudless Atlas and Satellite Live rolls out. We're...
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Lindsay Young joins MapBox
Lindsay Young has joined MapBox! She'll run logistics as part of our operations team, helping to support all of us in both the MapBox DC garage and our San Francisco office. She will be key as we scale...
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Sponsoring Node Knockout this weekend
This weekend is Node Knockout 2013, the annual 48-hour Node.js hackathon, and we're giving each team 12 free months of MapBox so they can build awesome geo apps. Teams will get the details in an email...
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Police.uk relaunches crime map
Police.uk— the central gateway for citizens in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland to access street-level crime data — rolled out a new site powered by open data from data.police.uk and a new crime...
View ArticleSwitching JavaScript mapping libraries
Next week Google Maps JavaScript API v2 will be deprecated, and apps will need to migrate to a new API to prevent old syntax from breaking. I've received many questions about migrating to MapBox, so...
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Flying to Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2013
We are sending a team out to AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas this week for sessions and meetings about making maps fast with smart infrastructure, processing massive amounts of satellite imagery, and making...
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Designing labels for satellite and aerial imagery
We have designed a new streets and labels layer for our satellite and aerial imagery. Too often, the interests of legibility supersede imagery - resulting in strong, distracting halos or heavily...
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MapBox v1.4.2: style and sharing
Say hello to MapBox.js v1.4.2, with refreshed and refined UI controls and sharing options. Our redesign of mapbox.com established consistent and strong styling concepts that we wanted to embrace in...
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The Washington Post maps America's "Super Zips"
The Washington Post continues its recent trend of amazing map visualizations with a new piece on well-off zip codes, "A World Apart", built with MapBox.js.Using data from the US Census, the Post has...
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Mark your map with new Maki icons
We've rolled out over a dozen new highly-requested Maki icons – our open source point-of-interest icons – in the last month, with several more in the pipeline. Our goal is to make Maki as easy as...
View ArticleTyphoon Haiyan OpenStreetMap Tracing
As Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines the OpenStreetMap community was already adding new details to the map to help first responders. In the map below, all the brightly highlighted...
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Megan Wanee: Hello mission control
Megan Wanee has joined the team as Mission Control, a new position that's key to helping MapBox scale up. Megan is a writer, editor, and MacGyver-type who will be handling lots of roles at MapBox with...
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