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GeoDC Meetup Tonight on Geodata Formats
Join us tonight for the July GeoDC meetup on geodata formats starting at 7:00 pm at Stetson's. John Firebaugh, in town from San Francisco, will present on the GeoJSON file format, walking through when...
View ArticleSSL Maps for Everyone
MapBox now supports SSL on every plan and across every service - at no extra charge. SSL is a necessity for every secure website, and it's vital to have all remote resources sent via the HTTPS protocol...
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Batticaloa Progress on OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap mapping progress in and around Batticaloa, Sri Lanka (7°43′0″N 81°42′0″E) since May 1, 2013.The progress made in mapping was impressive, with the entire Batticaloa area traced and on the...
View ArticleEasy Maps with GitHub
Live from the GeoDC meetup -- Ben Balter of GitHub talks about making data social now that GitHub added maps and supports GeoJSON. It's as easy as committing your JSON, GeoJSON or TopoJSON file to...
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Real Time Imagery via MapBox Satellite Live
We're launching MapBox Satellite Live later this summer. This new service will provide instant access to timely satellite imagery from anywhere in the world, directly though MapBox.com. We are...
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Dashboards for Data
The MapBox Garage now sports five dashboard displays that visualize the growth and form of MapBox and OpenStreetMap.MapBox's server and CDN architecture is the core of our speed and reliability. We...
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Hiring Business Development Lead at MapBox San Francisco
We are looking for a head of Business Development to lead partnerships and build out a sales team at MapBox in San Francisco. We are rapidly growing, and to date we have not had a dedicated sales team...
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Smoking Hot Coffee Interview
I recently had a great interview with the guys at Smoking Hot Coffee, a show covering the startup space. We talked at length about MapBox's strategy, operation, history, and a bit about what might be...
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Portland: The Age of a City
619,000 buildings, 544,033 of them list the year they were built in Portland. Justin Palmer of GitHub created this beautiful map of Portland, Oregon's buildings by age with TileMill. The color scheme...
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Tracing Landsat 8 for OpenStreetMap
Want to help update OpenStreetMap with fresh, free Landsat 8 imagery? Here’s how to get started tracing whatever interests you, even if you’ve never edited OpenStreetMap before.Start by finding a place...
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Mapping Millions of Dots
I've made a lot of maps out of dots before, but the ones we made from Gnip's Twitter archives, which were featured in Wired Design a few days ago, were my first experience trying to make dot maps that...
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Making Maki Even Better
Maki, our open-source point-of-interest icon project, has gone through some exciting changes recently.Better for collaborationPreviously, Maki icons existed in a single source file, bunched together...
View ArticleWashington Post: The New Cartographers
Our team, inside the garage, watch today's Washington Post: The New Cartographers.
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Girl Power @MapBox
I've been on the leadership team at MapBox since day one. I literally filed our incorporation papers, found and built out our office, and opened our first bank account. Now we grow. Today I'm running...
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500px Adds MapBox Maps
500px, the popular photo sharing website, just added MapBox maps to its gorgeous layout. Now, when a user views a specific photo, they have the option of seeing where the photo was taken. 500px...
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Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño joins MapBox as Chief Scientist
Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño is joining MapBox as Chief Scientist. Bruno has a PhD in Astrophysics from the Max Planck Research School and has worked with NASA satellites and space rockets at the U.S....
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New Map Features on 500px
Since our post yesterday, 500px has rolled out new map features. If you now click on a photo's map you'll see everyone's photo in the vicinity. You'll find the maps by clicking on the "Location" link...
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A First Look at Improving OpenStreetMap With New TIGER data
Improving OpenStreetMap with the latest TIGER dataMuch of the United States in OpenStreetMap is based on US Census Bureau TIGER 2006 data. While this data has been edited and improved in OpenStreetMap...
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Congress for iOS by Sunlight Foundation Q&A
Our friends at Sunlight Foundation recently released the iOS version of their popular Congress app. This free app lets you find out more about members of Congress, watch bills work their way through...
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ArcGIS + MapBox Sitting in a Tree... Thanks to Arc2Earth
ArcGIS, and the larger Esri suite can be a used in powerful ways with MapBox. All that is needed is the Arc2Earth Sync plugin to bring your desktop GIS to the cloud with MapBox.With Arc2Earth Sync you...
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