Maps primed for real estate
Every real estate site needs a map, but most property maps show cluttered pins on small thumbnail maps that don’t help people understand what it is that makes that location special. People want to be...
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COFFEEDEX: Super simple editing on OpenStreetMap
When we built iD, the default OpenStreetMap editor, we made sure we could recombine its parts to create a new wave of experimental, minimal, and unusual editors. OSM is more than a map, and more than...
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Happy hour: Mapbox for government
Coming to DC for the Esri Federal GIS Conference in February? Join us for happy hour and lightning talks on Mapbox for government. We’ll walk through our mapping platform, how to design powerful custom...
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Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Bloomberg New Energy Finance relaunched their Energy Asset maps to visualize everything from power plant capacity to distribution of gas pipelines and biofuel production. The map starts with macro,...
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Mapbox terrain data update
We just pushed a huge data update to Mapbox Outdoors, increasing terrain resolution across nearly 70 countries and significantly improving our map design. Check out the side-by-side comparison showing...
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Terrain in Mapbox Studio
Yesterday’s huge update to Mapbox Terrain all plugs into Mapbox Studio.First thing you’ll want to is open the Layers panel of your Mapbox Studio style project and click the Change Source button. Edit...
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Hello Andrey Golovin!
Say hello to Andrey Golovin! Andrey is an incredibly active mapper with some 4,200 edits on OpenStreetMap, and he is active in his home community in Ukraine, where he has helped put the entire 1...
View ArticleStyling maps for transportation
London We've open-sourced a new map style, Emerald, that you can download and edit in Mapbox Studio right now. Alongside roads and our new Outdoors data that features high-zoom terrain, we've added...
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Ski maps
The Winter Wonderland style is now updated with the new terrain data released last week. The super detailed-terrain brings more defined mountainsides and elevations to the snow-covered map. Andreas...
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Using Github for your map design workflow
This week we open sourced two gorgeous Studio styles: Emerald and Winter Wonderland. I decided to grab one of these styles and make it my own.I opened up Emerald’s repository, forked it to my Github...
View ArticleSuperpowering Runkeeper's 1.5 Million Walks, Runs, and Bike Rides
View more citiesView full screen map Using the new vector rendering capabilities of Tippecanoe, we were able to revisit our map of 1.5 million walks, runs, and bike rides with data from our friends at...
View ArticleSpace Station style ready for lift-off
Earlier this year, Eleanor Lutz designed the stunning map style Space Station. We’re happy to announce that it’s now available for all Mapbox Studio missions.ParisAfter you download the style, make it...
View ArticleTurf: GIS for web maps
Turf is GIS for web maps. It’s a fast, compact, and open-source JavaScript library that implements the most common geospatial operations: buffering, contouring, triangular irregular networks (TINs),...
View Article2014 Berlin in High-Res
2014 Berlin in High-Res We just updated Berlin, Germany in Mapbox Satellite with a fresh set of high-resolution orthoimagery captured earlier this year. The 20 cm imagery was taken during the winter...
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Lyzi Diamond Joins!
We’re thrilled to welcome Lyzi to the Mapbox team! As a co-founder of the geo education-focused Maptime meetup series and a longtime OpenStreetMap contributor, we have no doubt she’ll continue to stir...
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Willy Berg joins Mapbox
MapBox is joining forces with Dr. Wilhelm Berg of BergWerk GIS.We are thrilled to be partnering with Willy to ensure key Mapbox tools deliver the same performance and stability on Windows as on other...
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Say it in Satellite: Aerial Bold
We love Aerial Bold, the new project by artist Benedikt Groß and geographer Joey Lee. Aerial Bold scans millions of square miles of Satellite imagery for objects that look like letters and make them...
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Blake Thompson joins Mapbox
Blake Thompson is joining the Mapbox team! Blake will be diving into the development of our open source vector tile pipeline. He will be improving the performance and flexibility of Mapnik’s vector...
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Join the Mapbox directions team
Got an idea for solving this problem efficiently and elegantly in C++?A given graph consists of two connected sub-graphs in which every node has at least three neighbours. The sub-graphs are only...
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Africa terrain update
Our terrain across Africa now has 200% more detail.Virunga Mountains, DR Congo (SRTM 90m vs. SRTM 30m)Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (SRTM 90m vs. SRTM 30m)Mount Meru, Tanzania (SRTM 90m vs. SRTM 30m)Lake...
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