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Happy Hour Thursday @Bloodhound in San Francisco
We're kicking off August with beers this Thursday, August 1st, at 6:30pm @Bloodhound, our favorite bar by our office in San Francisco. Expecting to see a lot of good mapping friends from...
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Processing RapidEye Imagery in Minutes
RapidEye has high-res, extremely up-to-date satellite data. Their satellite constellation provides daily images of anywhere in the world with 5 meter resolution, making it especially useful for some of...
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Connecting Communities: Edit OpenStreetMap Directly from Foursquare
Foursquare Superusers can now edit OpenStreetMap directly from their moderation interface.Foursquare has always benefited by collecting location information from users who have a passion for accurate...
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Super Sharp 50cm Pléiades Satellite Imagery on MapBox.com
Pléiades is a constellation of two identical high-res satellites 1A and 1B on the same heliosynchronous orbit on opposite sides. This basically means that Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology...
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Financial Times Goes MapBox: Design Matters
The Financial Times' signature pink brand can now be found in its maps too. They completely nailed the new map design, integrating both the distinctive pink color scheme and their in-house font into...
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Good Morning San Francisco!
stretch good morning SAN FRANCISCO! Starting today I'm rocking it ~50% of the time out here w/ the growing @MapBox team.
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Weekend Hack: Printing 3D Tiles
A friend recently got a Makerbot (3D printer) at his work, and he invited me to play around with it. I thought it'd be neat to see what printing a map "tile" might look like. Unfortunately, his printer...
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Tracking Mars Curiosity Rover
This weekend I made a map tracking the Rover's year-long journey across the Red Planet, all in celebration of the Curiosity Rover's one year anniversary on Mars -- and an excuse to dive back into my...
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Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap!
August 9th OpenStreetMap's 9th birthday is coming up. To celebrate, we'll be hosting the local DC community's birthday sprint this Saturday August 10th at the MapBox garage. Join in for a day of...
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Faxing Outer Space
Today, requesting satellite imagery of anywhere in the world often requires a fax machine. The process is more like a game of telephone in order to gain access to some of the most high-tech tools in...
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Financial Times Satellite
Last week the Financial Times launched with new custom branded MapBox maps in their signature pink and in-house fonts. These new maps also come with a labels and streets layer specifically designed for...
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Expanding our Satellite Processing with Astrium’s SPOT 6
As we prepare our MapBox Satellite Live service, we're continuing to expand our satellite imagery processing to include the best and newest sensors available – this time with SPOT 6 from Astrium. SPOT...
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Simple, Fast Map Data Editing
We are trying to make it easier to draw, change, and publish maps. Some of the most important geospatial data is the information we know, observe, and can draw on a napkin. This is the kind of data...
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We Are Growing
We just launched /jobs @MapBox. We're growing fast and looking for talented, hungry people to join the team. Check out the openings or just drop us a line at jobs@mapbox.com to tell us how you could...
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A Better OpenStreetMap.org, One Step at a Time
For the past month, we've had our heads down on a series of incremental improvements to OpenStreetMap.org. This included a new sign up workflow, an improved map UI, a new data export screen and a...
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Cloudless Landsat Preview | Vancouver
We’re working on the next release of Cloudless Atlas, processing thousands upon thousands of huge Landsat scenes. Many techniques carry over smoothly from our cloudless MODIS project, but the number of...
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London Happy Hour at Strongroom
We'll soon be on our way to State of the Map in Birmingham UK. Join us at our stop in London for a happy hour at Strongroom in Shoreditch on Wednesday September 4th to talk maps, satellite imagery and...
View ArticleFirstLook for MapBox Satellite Live
We are getting closer to launching MapBox Satellite Live! Over the past month we focused on our pipeline's integration with DigitalGlobe's FirstLook imagery service. FirstLook is a custom monitoring...
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User-Friendly Guided Feature Extraction: Extending the iD Editor
We want to make it easy to extract features from precise, current satellite imagery and add them to your map in iD. Feature extraction has been a topic in GIS for decades, but has never been intuitive...
View ArticleWhat's New in TIGER 2013
On Thursday, the US Census Bureau released the 2013 version of TIGER, its base map of the United States. Here is a first rendering of the new TIGER 2013 dataset. Changes in the 2013 edition are in...
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