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Open Source Mapping in Ramallah
Today I've arrived in the city of Ramallah to connect with technologists, civic activists, and students at TechCamp Ramallah. The TechCamp kicks off tomorrow and will bring together organizations from...
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Newseum Launches Civil Rights Map
The Newseum has started using MapBox in its Digital Classroom. Coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, they've combined maps and markers with their amazing archive of...
View ArticleThe World’s Highest Resolution Map of Global Temperature from Forecast.io
Check out the heat of daylight sweep across the Sahara in this animation of the world's highest resolution temperature data from Forecast.io. Or zoom in to see the microclimates across the San...
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Off to Europe: Let's Catch Up in London, Birmingham, Paris, Berlin
GPS tracks on OpenStreetMap by Eric FischerWe're getting on our way to Europe today, making stops in London, Birmingham, Berlin, and Paris. Looking forward to catching up with a ton of folks at one or...
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Facebook Rival VK Goes MapBox
VK, second largest social network in Europe, switched to MapBox maps September 1st. Its 47 million daily users now see their stories, photos and messages all mapped on MapBox maps. The switch from...
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Berlin Happy Hour at Pratergarten
On our tour through Europe Eric and myself will join Konstantin for a couple of days working out of Berlin. Let's meet up to chat maps, satellite imagery and OpenStreetMap over a beer at Pratergarten...
View ArticleVote for Our Session at SXSW: Only One Day Left!
Vote for our mapping session @SXSW! - there is only 1 day left for voting! We are teaming up with our friends at Gnip, who we partnered with to map 3 billion tweets. Eric @MapBox and Ian @Gnip will...
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World Satellite Business Week
We are heading to Paris today for World Satellite Business Week, an international conference bringing together more than 600 senior-level executives and government representatives from the global...
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Visualizing Building Age in the Netherlands
All 9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands were mapped and shaded according to their year of construction in the map above. The map was created by Bert Spaan using TileMill, similar to the Portland and...
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OpenStreetMap's Contributor Community Visualized - Individual by Individual
OpenStreetMap is created every day by thousands of users logging in and improving the map. Here is a visualization of this amazing social fabric of individuals working together. We generated a color...
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Marc Prioleau Joins the Board of Directors
Marc Prioleau, a long time player in the geo space just joined our Board of Directors and is specifically focused to help us grow smart as we continue to expand the team.Marc has been a good friend and...
View ArticleAdd MapBox to iOS 7 with One Line of Code
You can now add totally custom MapBox maps to any iOS 7 app in one line of code using our new MBXMapKit, which leverages new changes in Apple's MapKit software to allow greater customization on both...
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New OpenStreetMap Editor iD Increases Participation
Great editing tools directly drive contributions to OpenStreetMap. It has been exciting to watch how OpenStreetMap's new iD editor has encouraged more people to do more editing of the map....
View ArticleBusiness and Open Data
Private sector companies can be amazing partners to open data projects and company resources are key to help open data communities grow. I just presented how we have been thinking about our involvement...
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New York City and OpenStreetMap Collaborating Through Open Data
Yesterday New York City opened up 200 high value data sets to the public, making it possible to use this data to improve OpenStreetMap. In return, New York City's GIS team can now be informed of...
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Oktoberfest at the MapBox Garage
We're bringing Oktoberfest to the MapBox Garage on Thursday, October 17. We're racing kegs - Hofbrau vs. PBR - and grilling up German sausages and halfsmokes in the alley. We'll get started after work...
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Hiring an operations associate for the DC garage
This position has been filled.Our team is growing fast, and we're hiring an operations associate to help support us as we scale from a small startup working from a DC garage, to a larger startup...
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Desarrollando América Latina: Talleres de OpenStreetMap y MapBox el 20 de...
Tune in on Sunday, October 20 for virtual workshops on OpenStreetMap and MapBox in Spanish language. These workshops are part of our support for Desarrollando América Latina 2013, a fantastic Latin...
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Eric Fischer joins MapBox
Eric Fischer joins the MapBox team! We have worked with Eric on some incredible projects, from mapping 3 billion tweets, to visualizing OpenStreetMap contributors across the globe, to analyzing the...
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Government Shutdown Map by the Washington Post
This government shutdown map by the Washington Post allows readers to comment how the closed government affects them and shows their response on a MapBox map. The result is an evolving visualization of...
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