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MapBox at Kansas University GIS Day
This week, I'm heading to Kansas University for the annual GIS Day @ KU where I will be speaking about mapping and JavaScript. If you're at the event or if you are an educator and looking to integrate...
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Jeff Hurlock joins MapBox
A big welcome to Jeff Hurlock, who has just joined the MapBox team. He'll be working with our business development team bringing on new subscribers, customizing plans for large users, and helping...
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Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap
Last weekend we captured 100 acres of aerial imagery at 4cm resolution. It took less than an hour to fly, and it was easy to publish the imagery on the web using TileMill and then trace in...
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Why our Australia is red
We’re putting out some very saturated pixels. Why? Simple: The world really looks like that. When I demonstrate this I like to pull up photos of the Australian outback on Flickr, for example:Red sand...
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Glowing tweets
Yeah, we've done this before, but there's nothing like playing more with design, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of staring at geotagged tweets and marveling at all they reveal about the forms of...
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GoPro video maps
We've been playing with mapping GoPro video, most recently using some of Bobby's biking footage and overlaying it with his Strava GPX track. We synced up the video track using MapBox.js that embeds a...
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High-availability features added to OSRM
We just released OSRM v0.3.7 with huge improvements for running OSRM in a high-availability production environment. OSRM now handles data updates very transparently through the use of a new memory...
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Pinterest: Scaling Beautiful Maps
Pinterest now has maps! Gorgeous maps, designed by our friends at Stamen using our open source map design studio TileMill and our new vector tiles– all hosted on MapBox.com.This stack gives Pinterest a...
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MapBox.js keeps getting better: version 1.5.0 updates Leaflet to 0.7, bumping up performance and fixing...
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Golf course maps
We're working on a new golf course style in our vector terrain map for outdoor apps that makes golf courses look amazing — so it's easier to see features like fairways, greens, tees, and hole numbers....
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Aaron Lidman Joins MapBox
Aaron Lidman joins the MapBox team! Aaron has amazing experience on both the product side and data side. He's created projects like Toner for TileMill, a custom CartoCSS style for anyone to make cool...
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New office space in San Francisco
We just got an amazing new office space in San Francisco, right in SOMA at 9th and Howard. We're sticking to our roots and continuing to work alongside our friends at Code for America, who we LOVE....
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Party before the TechLady Hackathon
We're hosting the pre-party for the TechLady Hackathon + Training Day! Come party with us on Friday, December 6 at the MapBox garage.We want to bring together developers and wannabe developers to talk...
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We unit test our blog at MapBox
We blog using Jekyll at MapBox, which means that all of our blog posts are written in code. Sometimes we make mistakes though, and missing or invalid metadata can cause layout quirks or unexpected...
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Finacial Times: London’s renting crisis.
The data team at FT.com is killing it. Publishing a few maps a week, their latest is on London's renting market crisis. The map visualization shows affordability across different properties at...
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Financial Times: London’s renting crisis.
The data team at FT.com is killing it. Publishing a few maps a week, the latest is on London's renting market crisis. The map visualization shows affordability across different properties at different...
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Katie Wandtke joins MapBox!
Katie Wandtke has joined the MapBox team! She will be taking care of our subscribers, making sure their MapBox experience is awesome from day one and that all goes smoothly on the contracts and...
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Mapping a golf course
It's fast to add a golf course to a map by tracing satellite imagery - an entire course layout takes less than 30 minutes. Fact: that's roughly 1/8th the time it takes to play 18 holes, and you're 97%...
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Mozilla's Custom Branded Maps
Mozilla's flagship web site Mozilla.org just relaunched including new custom maps. The maps use Mozilla's colors, typography and design to fit seamlessly into the new web site. In keeping with...
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New Sharing Interface
We've released a new sharing interface that not only makes it easier to customize interactions on the map, but writes the code you'll need to get started. Map embeds now have toggles for interface...
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