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Drag and Drop with Maki Icons and Style
You can now drag & drop GeoJSON, KML, GPX, and CSV files onto the MapBox editor and style them with Maki markers.
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Kojo Nnamdi on the future of maps
Live from Washington DC - Eric and Jonah Jones, Lead designer for Google Maps were on today's The Kojo Nnamdi Show on "The Next Generation of Online Maps." Here's the full audio version of the...
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Rafa Gutierrez joins MapBox!
Rafa Gutierrez is the new support hero at MapBox! He will be fielding developer questions on MapBox Support and Stack Overflow and producing on documentation, screencasts, and blog posts. He is here to...
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Quick add for places in OpenStreetMap
It's faster and easier to add the location of your local Starbucks, Sparkasse, Сбербанк, or ファミリーマート to OpenStreetMap: just add a point and start typing a name, and the editor will autocomplete the...
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Removing Atmosphere Scatter
Raw earth imagery from satellites is blue-ish — the atoms in atmosphere scatter the blue color of solar light the most. We are processing algorithms to make brighter colors that are truer to what you...
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Adam Phillips to lead Business Development
Adam Phillips is our new business development lead at MapBox, working out of our San Francisco office! He will be establishing strategic business direction, striking partnerships, and scaling sales...
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Before and after atmospheric correction
Raw earth imagery from satellites is blue-ish due to atmospheric scattering. Above you can see the before-and-after comparison. On the left the blueish“top of atmosphere” reflectance, on the right the...
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Holiday party 2013
This week our team converged on Washington, DC for a sprint week and our annual holiday party, with 45 people coming together, flying in from the West Coast, Peru, Ukraine, England, and Germany. It’s...
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Soon: powerful drawing tools
Soon you’ll be able to draw lines and polygons and add custom styles to make maps with even more data and interactivity.
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Removing Cloud Shadows
These shadowy shapes (pink arrows) littered on the mountains are cloud shadows.I just added a new method to our declouding algorithm that removes all cloud shadows for our next version of Cloudless...
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Mapping the future
We’ve been thinking about the future of mapping in our solar system and beyond. We can’t wait to see what’s out there.
View ArticleThe Hidden Beauty of Congestion — Real Time Holiday Traffic Visualized
Thanks to a collection of traffic speed data from INRIX, we’ve been watching how waves of traffic formed, moved, and dissipated on the roads near Washington in the days around Thanksgiving.I was...
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Beyond the dot: a powerful new editor for Mapbox
Today you can draw and annotate maps in a whole new way with your MapBox account: we’ve added tools for polygon and line features, along with user-friendly styling options and more powerful...
View ArticleSwipe to compare tiles in Mapbox.js
Swiping between two layers is one of the most convenient ways to compare map imagery, and now it’s back in full glory in Mapbox.js! The interactive example below shows the seasonal change near the Lake...
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Favorite satellite images of 2013
It’s been a great year for open data and a beautiful year for satellite imagery. Just for fun, here’s a few favorites.Confluence of the Fisher and Mellor glaciers, Antarctica. On November 11th, as the...
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Geologist Ryan Clark joins Mapbox
Geologist Ryan Clark joins the team! Ryan got into coding while maintaining the data behind various geologic maps at the Arizona Geological Survey. His deep technical skills range from maintaining...
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Mick Thompson joins Mapbox!
Civic hacker Mick Thompson joins Mapbox in San Francisco! We first started talking maps with Mick at Code for America, where he was a 2012 Fellow and most recently the Engineer in Residence. His years...
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Paul Goodman joins SF office
Paul Goodman is joining our expanding team in San Francisco, helping us grow our government and agriculture tools in addition to contributing to broader business strategy across Mapbox. His background...
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Eleanor Lutz joins Mapbox
Design consultant Eleanor Lutz joins the Mapbox team! As a designer and molecular biology major, Eleanor is experienced in bringing her design skills to anything from custom-made research equipment to...
View ArticleMapbox for Android blasts off
Android developers, we’ve heard you! Check out the new Mapbox Android SDK repository, read the quick start guide, and start sending your feedback for where we should go next.Based on OSMDroid, a...
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