Explore your buildings before they’re built with Katz Industries
An immersive architectural model in your pocketBy: Erin QuinnKIND-Automatic, by Katz Industries, lets commercial real-estate developers, construction companies, and architects create and interact with...
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A day in the life of Mapbox Telemetry engineer, Nick CordellaBy: (you guessed it) Nick CordellaNick Cordella is an engineer on the telemetry team at Mapbox, where he builds valuable products like...
View ArticleNew maps for DJI Go users
By: Paul GoodmanWith the launch of the new Mavic Air, DJI released a brand new version of DJI Go maps for Android powered by Mapbox. From the latest street and park data to high resolution aerial...
View ArticleGeospark Analytics upgrades its maps
Faster rendering for real-time, big data insightsBy: John GoolgasianFrom defense and intelligence agencies to travel, businesses, and financial services, Geospark Analytics helps organizations make...
View ArticleMaps for Machines @ Locate
Exploring the future of mobility and autonomous drivingBy: Marc PrioleauMaps used in autonomous driving require entirely new levels of accuracy and latency. This is pushing the boundaries of AI and...
View ArticleIndoor maps with Mapwize
By: Mederic MorelMederic Morel is CEO and co-founder at Mapwize, the indoor mapping platform for smart buildings.Mapwize is using Mapbox to bring navigation indoors. At Mapwize, we’ve spent years...
View ArticleBring realistic styles to Unity
By: Greg LemonOur Maps SDK for Unity lets you generate a city using our rich location, building, and road data. Now, we’re adding a realistic style with reflections, high resolution textures, and...
View ArticleHere comes Space Invad-AR
By Morgane SantosHold on to your butts. Space Invad-AR, our very own world scale AR game, is now available for download in the iOS app store; and it’s open source so you can use it as a starting point...
View ArticleSpeaking @ Locate: Eran Shir
Nexar Co-Founder and CEOBy: Joe GomezLocate | Pier 27, San Francisco, CA | May 30–31, 2018At Locate, we’re bringing together thinkers and makers in the mapping space — people who are building new...
View ArticleMapping Donor Network West’s mission to heal
A second chance at life in your communityBy: Lo BeníchouDonor Network West (DNW), the third largest federally designated organ procurement organization and one of the largest tissue recovery...
View ArticleLead Google PM of Local Search, Andrew Chen, Joins Mapbox as Head of Product...
By: Eric GundersenAndrew Chen brings an amazing mix of engineering depth and product vision and is someone I want around the table to help us build out the next phase of our product roadmap. As the...
View ArticleStyling Mapbox Terrain RGB
By Erin QuinnRecently, we released a new raster digital elevation model (DEM) source for styling terrain maps called Mapbox Terrain RGB. While styling any map in our cartography editor, Mapbox Studio,...
View ArticleSpeaking @ Locate: Di-Ann Eisnor
Director of Growth at Waze (now Google)Locate | Pier 27, San Francisco, CA | May 30–31, 2018By: Joe GomezLocate, is a two-day party with all of the coolest people and companies in the mapping space,...
View ArticlePatagonia’s “dam” good map
The outdoor brand launches its Discover the Blue Heart story mapBy: Erin QuinnPatagonia just launched The Blue Heart of Europe storytelling map, part of their Dam Truth campaign to protect the rivers...
View ArticleGeoSpock maps trillions of data points
Extending GL JS to create custom visualizations for BIBy: Angelina CalderonGeospock is building a data indexing engine to ingest, store, and retrieve geospatial and temporal data at petabyte scale....
View ArticleSee you at GEOINT!
By: Matt ShouppeOur Government Team is gearing up for another great week at GEOINT, the premier annual conference for all things GIS, kicking off next week in Tampa. This year, we’ve upgraded our...
View ArticleHappy Day from our team
Our favorite places, seen from aboveBy Camilla MahonWe do a whooole lot of Earth-gazing on the satellite team. We each have our handful of favorite spots on the satellite layer—places we have personal...
View ArticleRevamping gestures for Android maps
By: Lukasz PaczosWe just enhanced gesture detection for the Maps SDK for Android. We’ve expanded the core Android SDK to allow more nuanced map interactions like rotation, shoving, two-finger taps, and...
View ArticleHelping PATH scale out data for #VisualizeNoMalaria
Expanding to the Elimination 8 CountriesBy: Allan Walker, Anya A’Hearn, Marena BrinkhurstClick through image to view project. (Suitable for Desktop Chrome Only)Using open data and location analytics,...
View ArticleA mapathon for the environment with OSM Earth
By: Marena BrinkhurstI am the Lorax! I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” - Dr. SeussThis Earth Day, a group of volunteers from the OSM community participated...
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