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Welcome Kelvin Abrokwa!
Meet Kelvin Abrokwa, the newest member of the Mapbox data team. As a student at William & Mary, Kelvin works on the AidData project, turning messy CSVs into useful open data. That experience makes...
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Improve the map --- in seconds
Now you can let us know in a split second when something needs to be added to the map.Tens of millions of individuals are looking at a Mapbox map right now. Anyone, from someone searching a place on...
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OpenAddresses Hits 100 Million
OpenAddresses is starting 2015 with a bang: all together, OpenAddresses now contains more than 100 million address points! It was just last June that we celebrated collecting 30 million addresses. The...
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What RunKeeper data tells us about travel behavior
CityLab’s article about our updated map of RunKeeper’s public routes highlighted the visible difference on the map between the shorter, more urban routes that tend to be associated with running and the...
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Growing our data team in Peru
The doors to our new office in Ayacucho, Peru are officially open! Our data team there is improving OpenStreetMap, from tracing satellite imagery to improving routes and directions. The energy starts...
View ArticleDynamic walkability estimation with Turf
Using Turf, I created an app that estimates how easy it is for residents to get around on foot in Washington, DC using a collection of open datasets. The computation is performed 100% client-side and...
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South America terrain update
Our terrain in South America is now 3x more detailed.Machu Picchu, Peru. 15th-century Inca site located 2,430m above sea level. (SRTM 90m vs. SRTM 30m)Aconcagua, Argentina. Highest peak in South...
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How fast is Turf?
Turf is designed to be fast: fast enough for real-time GIS in browsers and big data crunching on a node.js server.Some of Turf’s speed comes from JavaScript engines like V8 that make JS one of the...
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Installing Mapbox on Your AWS Account
Mapbox Atlas Server is now packaged as an AMI to run on your private AWS infrastructure, which means you can serve maps from your AWS account with a few clicks and a matter of minutes.A single command...
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Beautiful map styles for Editor
We’ve made an exciting update to Mapbox Editor: Editor now comes with the same set of beautiful map styles as Mapbox Studio, plus more.These new styles are located in the Styles panel of Editor. Choose...
View ArticleFind your nearest cup of coffee with Turf
Turf has opened a wide range of possibilities for apps running entirely in the browser. In this example, we’ve built a store locator that finds all Starbucks locations near a user’s current position....
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Robust navigation with smart nearest neighbor search
When dealing with huge global map data, small imperfections like disconnected roads are unavoidable. We’re handling millions of daily queries with Smart Directions on top of OpenStreetMap data. To...
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Analyzing 60 years of tornadoes with Turf
Tornadoes caused $25 billion dollars worth of damage to the US in 2011. Since 1953 NOAA has recorded 57,988 tornadoes that made landfall. Using Turf, let’s cross-reference this data with the Census...
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Install Mapbox in China (亚马逊 AWS)
Mapbox Atlas Server can now be installed in AWS China. This means with a few clicks you can be serving maps from the AWS datacenters in Beijing. Everything is packaged as an AMI to run on your private...
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Satellite map with contours
We’ve made recent updates to both our satellite base map and our terrain data. See them together in our new Satellite Outdoors style, which will be available in the next Mapbox Studio update. In the...
View ArticleTurf for local gov: potholes and parking meters
In an ideal world, data and visualizations inform decisionmaking. State and local government agencies rely on GIS, but technology, training, and funding can be barriers to broad adoption.Turf is part...
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NOAA doubles the spatial resolution of the Global Forecast System
Tropical storm Bansi, as it appeared last night, pulling warm water from rainforests of Madagascar, (full map live on Mapbox)Earlier this week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
View ArticleOpenStreetMap in Japan, 2007-2014
View more citiesView full screen map Ben Fry's classic map of the United States,"All Streets," demonstrated that a complete map of streets also implicitly creates a map of the topography around them,...
View ArticleOn the economics of data acquisition #DLD15
The DLD conference kicks off today in Munich. This years conference theme: “It’s just the begining” fits well with the “Maps & Data” panel I’m presenting on Tuesday.The mapping industry is changing...
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Asia terrain update
Our terrain across Asia has tripled in detail as we continue to improve our data around the globe.Mount Everest, Nepal/China. Earth’s highest mountain at 8,848m. (SRTM 90m vs. SRTM 30m)Gunung Gede,...
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