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Taller OpenStreetMap y Mapbox alrededor del Foro Económico Mundial en Panama
Next week I´ll be in Panama giving a Workshop on OpenStreetMap and Mapbox. That week we are also talking at the World Economic Forum on Latinoamerica about Innovation and Technology.El próximo Lunes 31...
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CalGIS: Three days of mapping + a party
We’re kicking off CalGIS on Monday, April 14th with a party. Join us at the Cannery Row Brewing Company at 95 Prescott Avenue in Monterey at 6pm to talk maps + have some beers + celebrate CalGIS in its...
View ArticleOver 100,000 buildings mapped in Guinea where Ebola broke out
In the past 5 days the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and volunteers mapped over 100,000 buildings and hundreds of miles of roads in Guinea where Ebola broke out. In just these few days since the...
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GeoDC Today: How To Use OpenStreetMap
Come out to GeoDC on Wednesday, April 2nd, at Stetson’s. Beers at 7:00 pm, presentations kick off at 7:30 pm. The annual OpenStreetMap conference State of the Map is right around the corner, so this...
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Zeit Online Launches Custom Maps
Zeit Online, the digital sister publication of Germany’s most widely read weekly paper launched new maps in a completely custom branded design, seamlessly integrating into the website’s look and feel....
View ArticleNew high resolution satellite images for Ebola outbreak region
We just processed high resolution imagery with DigitalGlobe for Mamou, a region within the center of the Ebola outbreak where more than 80 people have died and more are at risk as the virus spreads to...
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Carol Hansen joins Mapbox
Developer Carol Hansen joins the Mapbox team in Washington, DC! Previously, Carol worked in web development, GIS, and volunteered as a developer with Code for Boston, the Boston-based CfA Brigade. She...
View ArticleDrone Adventures Imagery for Tracing in OpenStreetMap: Fukushima + Lima
Drone Adventures released four new UAV imagery layers of their recent deployments for tracing on OpenStreetMap. Three of the maps are from Fukushima, Japan, one from Lima, Peru. This release is part of...
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Mapping an entire city in a day
This is what you get when you combine community, open data, and awesome imagery. In 29 hours 68 contributors mapped an entire city (20,105 buildings):Read more about how OpenStreetMap volunteers led by...
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Creating Maps From Drone Imagery
Here is an end to end walkthrough showing how to process drone imagery into maps and then share it online, all using imagery we collected on a recent flight with the 3D Robotics team and their Aero...
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Women Who Code @Mapbox
Four out of five of our newest team members at Mapbox are amazing women who code. This is awesome, and it’s just the start. We’re growing fast at Mapbox and are looking for talented, hungry women — and...
View ArticleAudiolizing Server Query Rate
Project OSRM is audiolizing the server query rate on our demo site. It’s kind of like a geiger counter for monitoring usage, letting people feel what is happening in an abstracted way. An often...
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Monitoring Oil reserves from Space
Skybox Imaging is making it easy to monitor oil reserves and other resources from space. Oil is typically stored in tanks with roofs that float to avoid breathing and evaporative losses in the space...
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GeoLadies Coffee Break at State of the Map US
Let’s have a GeoLadies get together at State of the Map US this weekend during the coffee break at 3:30 pm on Saturday. Grab a coffee and join us in Room 143 (lunch room). There’s going to amazing...
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Addressing the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug at Mapbox
We have secured our infrastructure from Heartbleed, a serious OpenSSL vulnerability that caused security on most of the internet to virtually evaporate overnight (good post by the New York Times)....
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Map Design SketchUp Plugin
The Mapbox SketchUp Plugin makes it easy to add custom maps or imagery to your SketchUp for more design control. Any map you made in TileMill or on mapbox.com can be added to your to SketchUp...
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500,000 km2 Satellite Imagery Update for OpenStreetMap Tracing
We are starting a massive refresh of Mapbox Satellite, partnering again with our friends at DigitalGlobe— the largest satellite company in the world. We are going to add 500,000 km2 of fresh imagery at...
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Introducing Mapbox Outdoors
Mapbox Outdoors is a beautiful new map made for hiking, running, cycling, skiing, and exploring.Introducing MapboxOutdoorsA beautiful new map designed for outdoor adventures. Mapbox Outdoors is ready...
View ArticleMonitoring nuclear plants with micro-satellites
The IR-40 reactor is shaded red and the heavy water facility is shown with blue markers. The perimeter of the plant is shown in Orange. (Click on button to replay tracing)IR-40 is a nuclear reactor...
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Designing a Map for the Outdoors From the Ground Up
The new Mapbox Outdoors is all about bringing the background forward. Hill shades orient runners, topography lines help hikers judge ascents, roads are designed to overlay GPS tracks from your rides....
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