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Fast updates to all our servers
We run hundreds of virtual servers on Amazon Web Services. So when security bugs like the bash vulnerabilities from a couple of weeks ago arise, we’re faced with a sudden, urgent need to perform a lot...
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Progress mapping West Africa's Ebola outbreak
For the past six months, 1,650 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) volunteers from more than 100 countries have worked around the clock to produce detailed maps of areas affected by West Africa’s...
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Johan Uhle joins Mapbox
Johan Uhle has joined the Mapbox team! He is working on global Mapbox infrastructure, making sure that data is processed quickly and maps are delivered reliably and fast.Johan lives in Berlin/Germany,...
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Querying elevation data from drones
We’re now able to query elevation data captured from drone flights. The example below uses terrain data recorded on a Sensefly eBee drone flight over a quarry near Lake Geneva. After processing the...
View ArticlePrivacy, Transparency, and Law Enforcement
We’re a mapping platform for our customers' services. We power Runkeeper’s new route planning app, DroneDeploy is building on our Upload API, and Pix4D uses us as their one-click publishing platform...
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Making Ayacucho the best map in Latin America
These past weeks our data team took a break from improving OpenStreetMap all around the globe and focused on mapping beautiful Ayacucho, Peru, where many of us are based. Our goal: to give Ayacucho the...
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GeoJSON overlays for static maps
We’ve expanded the functionality of our static maps API to include support for overlaying paths and GeoJSON. Everyone has access and can start playing with the API today.Preview GPX traces in your...
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Web to Canvas Print: Resolution Independence with Mapbox Studio
Mapbox Studio’s print export tool makes it possible to create high-resolution prints of any map style. Naturally, we were first in line to try the feature out, printing the amazingly loud and colorful...
View ArticleMore storage for publishing drone imagery on mapbox.com
We just increased the storage included with Mapbox accounts. Our free Starter plan now includes 100MB/month, our $5 Basic plan increased 4x to 1GB, the $50 Standard plan now comes with 5GB, our Plus...
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Mapping Gaza before and after a crisis
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is mapping buildings and streets in the Gaza Strip using high-resolution satellite imagery taken just before the outbreak of the the June-August 2014 conflict...
View ArticlePremium plans now include paywall maps
Mapbox Premium plans now include maps behind a paywall for up to 1,000 seats. It’s just included with every Premium account. Until recently, applications with maps behind a paywall required custom...
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Temporary Flight Restrictions mapped live on "Don't Fly Drones...
The FAA issues Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) to restrict airspace around VIP movements, natural disasters, and other special or sensitive events. Since we released the Don’t Fly Drones Here map,...
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Andreas Viglakis joins Mapbox
Andreas Viglakis is joining the Mapbox team! Trained as an architect and urban designer, Andreas is now jumping into the space where map design, data wrangling, and visual storytelling intersect. One...
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Namaste India!
We’re heading to India next month. Alex, Eric and I will attend Open Data Camp in Delhi on November 15th, and then head to the GeoBLR meetup on the 20th. We’re looking forward to catching up and...
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Color picker comes to Mapbox Studio
It’s now easier to experiment with colors in Mapbox Studio. Click on a swatch in a CartoCSS tab and you’ll see one of these:The picker supports all Mapbox Studio’s color modes, including hex, RGB, HSL,...
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Mapping your moves (with Mapbox Studio!)
Here are two years of my walks, runs, and bike rides loaded into Mapbox Studio.YELLOW/RED is biking, PINK is running, BLUE is walking --- View full screenOrganizing your dataI’m using Facebook’s Moves...
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Open data research internship
We’re looking for an enthusiastic data research intern to help us find, organize and share open data with our clients and the world. As a research intern, you’ll be joining the data team in Washington,...
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Dark Sky Weather Data
Dark Sky Weather Data Earlier this week I imported satellite weather data into Mapbox Studio, making snapshots of temperatures across the continental United States as the morning warmed up: All the...
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Happy Halloween from Mapbox
Happy Halloween from the folks at Mapbox! To commemorate the holiday, I whipped up this spooooky map for you. View map in fullscreenTo explore more, check out the full-sized version.Mapbox Studio is an...
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Skeleton of a Python Package
You’ve written a directory full of Python scripts on your laptop and now you want to deploy them elsewhere and share them with other developers. Turning them into a proper package at this stage can be...
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