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How We Built USA TODAY's Election Night Maps
Throughout the 2012 election cycle, we’ve been fascinated with idea of visualizing realtime election results. On election day starting when voting concludes on the East Coast, newsrooms race to process...
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Talleres de Mapeo Para Desarrollando América Latina
On Saturday, November 24 we’ll be giving a series of webcasts on OpenStreetMap, TileMill, and MapBox.js in the lead up to the Developing Latin America hackathon. These webcasts will be given in...
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Hipmunk Relaunches Hotel Search with MapBox
This week Hipmunk relaunched their hotel search feature using MapBox maps.Hipmunk’s overall goal is to take the agony out of booking travel, and their new hotel search feature is a huge step in that...
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Hacking Hurricanes with NOAA
Tomorrow I’ll be joining scientists, designers, developers, and fellow citizens at Hurricane Hackers NYC, a hackathon to develop tools and apps to assist in the recovery efforts for those affected by...
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Evernote 5 Launches With Atlas for Notes Feature Powered by MapBox
Evernote just launched Evernote 5 for Mac, a much anticipated update that completely redesigns the app from the ground up. You can download it for free from the App Store. Evernote 5 features the new...
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MapBox at AWS re: Invent Conference Next Week
We will be in Las Vegas next week for AWS re: Invent, the first worldwide conference for Amazon Web Services. AWS helps us scale, serve maps fast, and maintain incredible uptime, so we’re looking...
View ArticleTaller en Lima, Peru en Diseñando Mapas para Mejores Soluciones
This weekend directly after the series of webcastsAlex is leading on OpenStreetMap, TileMill, and MapBox.js, Ian and I will give a hands on workshop in Lima, Peru on designing maps with a variety of...
View ArticleConnecting ArcGIS to TileMill with Arc2Earth Sync
Here’s a video preview of TileMill Connect, a new feature that allows you to instantly connect ArcGIS MXD documents to our open source map design studio TileMill. This is an upcoming feature in...
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Mapas Dinámicos Rápidos con OpenStreetMap, MapBox.js y Google Spreadsheets
The Desarrollando América Latina hackathons are about to kick off this weekend. Here is a walk through of a simple site using OpenStreetMap based MapBox Streets, MapBox.js and Google Spreadsheets to...
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MapBox iOS SDK Hits 0.5.0
We just released version 0.5.0 of the MapBox iOS SDK, the latest update to our open source alternative to Apple’s MapKit for iPhone and iPad apps. I’d like to highlight three of the biggest features...
View ArticleMasters Class Today on MapBox and TileMill in Mexico City
I’m in Mexico City today to give an advanced training session on MapBox, TileMill, and how we serve fast maps with Amazon Web Services at the University of Communications ahead of tomorrow’s...
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MapBox New Features Roundup
We’ve been quietly rolling out new features to the MapBox custom style editor. When used together they can really expand the styles and design options available to MapBox users. Here’s a summary of...
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Introducing MapBox Satellite
We just launched MapBox Satellite, our beautiful global imagery layer. We’ve been working hard to bring MapBox users a fast, beautiful satellite and aerial imagery layer that integrates seamlessly with...
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Export Your ArcGIS Projects to TileMill
TileMill Connect, a new feature from Arc2Earth Sync that lets you open ArcGIS projects in TileMill to utilize its beautiful cartography and advanced web publishing features, is available to use today....
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GeoDC Meetup Tonight on Mapping Real Life
Join us for the Geo DC meetup tonight, Wednesday, December 5, at 7:00 pm at Stetson’s for short presentations on mapping data collected in real life and to meet other people working in mapping, GIS,...
View ArticleOpen Aerial: The Data Behind MapBox Satellite
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Announcing FedGeo Day: Modern Geo Tools for the Government
Registration for FedGeo Day opened up yesterday. The one day event on February 28 in Washington, DC will showcase the latest open geospatial technologies, looking at how they can be implemented in...
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MapBox Teams Up with DigitalGlobe on Satellite Imagery
We’re partnering with DigitalGlobe, the world’s leading provider of high-resolution satellite imagery, to radically extend the coverage of MapBox Satellite.DigitalGlobal offers an advanced commercial...
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Photos from the MapBox Holiday Party
We celebrated the end of an exciting year yesterday by bringing the team together, drinking some eggnog, and enjoying a family style barbecue feast from local bbq spot Rocklands. A big thanks to Justin...
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The Trouble with Geoportals
Bulk open data access is different from programmatic and casual access, but all three are key elements of a sophisticated spatial data infrastructure. The extent of this difference becomes painfully...
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