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New Map Site Templates
After you’ve designed your custom styles for MapBox Streets and have some data overlays, whether from a TileMill layer or data from an API, the next step is getting your maps online. We’re releasing...
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WWDC 2012 Geo Coders Lunch
If you’re an Apple developer going to this year’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco next month, you’re invited to the WWDC Geo Coders Lunch on Tuesday, June 12.Lunch is on MapBox,...
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TileMill Feature Preview: Compositing Operations
Artem and Dane have been hard at work on some fantastic new developments in Mapnik, the powerful map renderer that makes TileMill possible. The latest feature additions are a set of composite...
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SITEL Road Data from Jalisco, Mexico Released for OpenStreetMap
Lea la versión en español más abajoWe are excited to release the SITEL road dataset of the Mexican state of Jalisco in .osm format. This allows for easy contribution of this data via the popular JOSM...
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Binning: An Alternative to Point Maps
Binning is a great alternative technique for visualizing density when working with large data sets. Many of our maps are made with point data, such as locations of banks in South Africa and health...
View ArticleDemoing TileMill at the GeoDC Meetup Tonight
Tonight’s GeoDC meetup at 7:00 pm at Stetson’s Bar on U Street will feature four demos of tools for making web maps. Eric will be giving one of the presentations, walking through how to use TileMill,...
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Mapnik Code Sprint 2012, Washington, DC
We are hosting the second ever Mapnik code sprint the weekend of June 16 to 17 at MapBox’s headquarters in Washington, DC. Organized by the venerable Richard Weait, this gathering will build upon the...
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Open Source Mapping and Open Data in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Tomorrow I’m traveling to Almaty, Kazakhstan for Tech Forum Central Asia, where I’ll be leading hands on trainings on our open source mapping tools and contributing to OpenStreetMap, the open data set...
View ArticleMapBox At IRE 2012
Starting tomorrow the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Boston will bring together some of the most innovative journalists, data scientists, and editors in the industry.We’ll be there...
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OpenStreetMap Continues to Grow
Having gained the attention of foursquare, MapQuest, and many others, OpenStreetMap is enjoying another wave of strong growth.As of June 1, 2012, OpenStreetMap has 622,467 registered users, a 51%...
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Sketchy Maps with Geometry Smoothing
Recently I posted about how I’ve been experimenting with new Mapnik features in TileMill. This past weekend at the Mapnik code sprint here in DC, I experimented with its new geometry smoothing feature...
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High Speed Maps Available in Australia
We have just come online with a new datacenter in Australia, making MapBox maps faster for users across the entire region. Custom styled street maps, interactive maps from TileMill, map embeds, static...
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Add Markers to Your Maps
We just rolled out markers to all MapBox.com accounts, making it easy to annotate maps in your MapBox account with a few clicks. Use markers to designate points of interest by placing them anywhere on...
View ArticleMBTiles: Anatomy of an Open File Format
I’ll be speaking Wednesday afternoon at the fantastic Open Source Bridge conference here in Portland, Oregon about the history behind and lessons learned from our MBTiles open file format. The talk is...
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Global Terrain Coming Soon to MapBox Streets
We are designing a new feature for MapBox Streets - terrain visualization with global coverage. This will be provided as an optional layer in the MapBox Streets custom styles editor and will provide...
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Welcome foursquare developers!
We’ve teamed up with foursquare to give developers using the foursquare API access to a special free MapBox plan. Now any of the 25,000+ developers from developers.foursquare.com can sign up for a free...
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Building a Social Store Locator
Here’s a practical example of how businesses large and small can leverage MapBox’s expanding partnership with foursquare - build a social store locator for their websites. The concept is just like the...
View ArticleReinvent Green Hackathon: NYC Map Layers
Alex and I will be at this weekend’s Reinvent Green Hackathon in New York City to help attendees make maps and data visualizations. In preparation we have rendered several of the suggested datasets...
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MapBox Static API Launched
The new MapBox Static API is now out of private beta! With full access to custom styles for MapBox Streets, custom layers from TileMill, and POI markers powered by the Maki icon set, you can get...
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Terrain Layer for MapBox Streets Now Available
MapBox Streets now has a terrain map for the entire world, letting you turn any map into a terrain map and style it any color. Using global elevation data, this addition visualizes hills and elevation...
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