Geomeetup tonight at Mapbox SF: geospatial disaster response
Join us tonight for May’s SF GeoMeetup, with a panel on Geospatial Disaster Response. Doors open at 6:45pm at the Mapbox SF office.Our very own @camillacaros will be speaking on Mapbox’s response, in...
View ArticleScott Andrews joins team Mapbox
Scott Andrews has joined team Mapbox! Scott previously worked at Flux.io where he was lead developer on the Metro project. Flux Metro is an app for better understanding development codes.At Mapbox,...
View ArticleBuilding Mapbox Mobile For Android
Mapbox Mobile is more than just iOS; we’re also actively working on bringing all of the styling flexibility, video game-quality OpenGL rendering, app analytics, and open code and data to Android, too....
View ArticleMapbox at International Open Data Conference this week
Tom Lee (@tjl) and I will each be speaking at International Open Data Conference 2015 in Ottawa on Thursday and Friday of this week.On Thursday, 1:30 pm EST I’ll be answering questions as part of the...
View ArticleJake Pruitt joins our team
Jake Pruitt is now a part of the Mapbox team! Jake comes to us from Tempe, Arizona where he’s studying economics, computer science and mathematics at ASU. Jake will be using his knowledge of Node.js to...
View ArticleLocation analytics for iOS
Mobile location analytics are built into every developer’s account using the Mapbox Mobile iOS SDK, for free. The analytics dashboard is designed to for developers see how, when, and most importantly...
View ArticleLucas Wojciechowski joins Mapbox
Lucas Wojciechowski just joined Mapbox! Lucas was an early adopter of Mapbox GL, which he used to create beautiful trail maps at Scree Maps. He’s a graduate of the Software Engineering program at the...
View ArticleWWDC 2015 Mapbox Mobile kickoff party
Are you in San Francisco for the epicenter of everything Apple next week? Come join us at our beautiful office just steps from Moscone for a kickoff party on Monday night from 6 to 8pm.RSVP hereWe’ve...
View ArticleAlice Kuo joins Mapbox
Say hello to Alice Kuo! Alice has joined our business team working out of San Francisco.Alice will work across Mapbox to ask and answer tough questions about our business as we grow. Before joining us,...
View ArticleMapbox GL running on the Qt Framework
We’ve written Mapbox GL with portability in mind. Last weekend I used a rainy summer day to prove the point and integrated Mapbox GL into the popular Qt framework.Getting vector tiles rendered in a...
View ArticleMaya Gao joins Mapbox
Maya Gao just joined the design team at Mapbox! Her amazing ability to create beautiful, intuitive interfaces will help us improve the user experience on Mapbox.com and across all of our tools.Maya...
View ArticleSpeed optimizations to Terrain
Today’s update to Terrain has insane speed optimizations using Mapnik’s new geometry simplifications. The terrain vector tiles are now anywhere from 8 to 80% leaner. This directly translates to faster...
View ArticleBetter label placement for Mapbox Mobile
Our algorithm now adds more labels in more places to make every view clear. Labels can’t just look good. They also need to react instantly to every pinch and rotation. Performance optimizations will...
View ArticleSupporting ProjectCSGIRLS and the next generation of women in tech
When I joined Mapbox over a year and a half ago, our thirty-odd person team included just two other women (making us about 9% female). Now our rapidly-growing team is over 30% female, thanks to the...
View ArticleMetadata vector tiles for imagery
Now every Landsat scene passing through our image processing pipeline generates a vector tile footprint with metadata of the scene ID, when the image was captured, and when it was processed.The...
View ArticleJason Wray joins Mapbox
Jason Wray just joined the Mapbox team! Jason stands with one foot in mobile, one in support, to help our customers take advantage of Mapbox GL in their mobile apps. He’ll be building example apps,...
View ArticleAmbient light sensors and Mapbox Mobile
Mapbox Mobile lets you style every element of the map to your exact specifications. Making a map that matches your company’s identity and that looks great is simple, but it’s also possible to push...
View ArticleCustomizing topographical networks for routing with OpenStreetMap data
OpenStreetMap describes real world features with key=value tags. At the time of writing it has 74,029,011 distinct tags. That’s a lot of different ways to describe the world around us. Pop quiz: say...
View ArticleBuilding the whole mapping stack
Building the whole mapping stackWe're creating the building blocks for a complete mapping stack. This extends way beyond a map. Today we closed $52.55 million in Series B financing to enable us to...
View ArticleDon Drummond joins Mapbox
A big welcome to Don, the latest addition to our operations team. Don’s an accountant with a passion for knowing exactly what makes a business tick. At Mapbox, he analyzes our financial systems, tracks...
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