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Partners for Mapbox + Tableau
Tableau just announced full Mapbox integration to an audience of more than 10,000 at the Tableau Conference (#data15) keynote in Las Vegas. You can now build Tableau visualizations on Mapbox’s streets,...
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Announcing the Mapbox Android SDK
Mapbox Mobile just launched on Android! Our completely open source SDK lets developers add beautiful maps to their apps. Mapbox’s SDK works just like Google Maps on Android: swap out...
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Powering maps and geo on Fabric: Twitter's Mobile Development Platform.
We’ve teamed up with Twitter to power maps and geo on the Fabric Mobile Development Platform. Starting November 18, our iOS and new Android SDK will be available on Fabric - integration with mapbox...
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Open mapping happy hour at the Open Government Partnership Summit
Join us for an Open Mapping Happy Hour at the Open Government Partnership Summit in Mexico City on Wednesday October 28th from 7PM onwards.The Open Government Partnership Summit is about to kick off...
View ArticleHurricane Patricia
Around 6pm local time yesterday, Hurricane Patricia made landfall about 85km (50 miles) northwest of Manzanillo, México. We animated data from NOAA’s’s Global Forecast System, showing wind gusts over...
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Mapping for hurricane response in Mexico
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has activated to support emergency response in coastal and inland Mexico anticipating the landfall of Hurricane Patricia - the strongest hurricane ever recorded. Our...
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Ahoj, Praha!
We’ve just updated Mapbox Satellite with fresh imagery of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. Founded circa 885 (yes, 1100 years ago) the Prague metro area has since grown to be the home to...
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HOT Responds to Afghanistan Earthquake
Responding to yesterday’s magnitude-7.5 earthquake near the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team immediately started monitoring the situation for priority mapping...
View ArticleU.S. Government Commits to Open Mapping
The U.S. federal government just made a huge commitment to Open Mapping, taking the lead in creative government partnerships with the OpenStreetMap community.Collaborate with Citizen and Global...
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Improving sidewalks globally in OpenStreetMap
In OpenStreetMap, paths for foot traffic such as park trails and sidewalks can be modeled in very similar ways. Any path intended for foot traffic can be tagged as highway=footway. This includes...
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Afghanistan earthquake satellite imagery
As the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team responds to yesterday’s magnitude-7.5 earthquake in Eastern Afghanistan the satellite team is working with DigitalGlobe to source existing imagery of affected...
View ArticleMapbox GL with video
Mapbox GL JS supports video as a seamless, geographically-positioned layer in any map. By using theHTML5 Video specification for video support, we can show MP4, WebM, and any other format supported by...
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Three million km2 of super high resolution imagery
We just acquired three million square kilometers of the freshest, highest resolution 30 cm imagery available from DigitalGlobe, the largest satellite company in the world. The imagery was captured by...
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Make a shakemap with Mapbox Studio in 3 steps
With Mapbox Studio, creating a quick map visualization is fast and easy. Let’s make a shakemap.Step 1: Download the dataData for the recent 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan is available from...
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Chào, Ho Chi Minh City!
Mapbox Satellite just got fresh, high-resolution imagery of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). This has me really excited: it wasn’t long ago that clouds and haze made it nearly impossible for OpenStreetMap...
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Matt Perry joins Mapbox
It’s our great pleasure to announce that Matt Perry is joining the Satellite Team at Mapbox.Matt is the author of a number of popular open source GIS software packages such as python-rasterstats and...
View ArticleAnimated atmosperic water
I just mapped NOAA GFS precipitable water data, using a video directly in the map. This is part of the new Mapbox GL JS, and the same technique I used to visualize Hurricane Patricia forming, then...
View ArticleMapping Female versus Male Street Names
Places and streets named after personalities are indicators of social hierarchy in a city. Often they are as prestigious as the person they are named after. We wanted to study the distribution and...
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Hello from the Web Summit in Dublin
Good morning from the Web Summit in Dublin! Jeff and I are in town for the next few days speaking with Mapbox users, listening in on talks, and checking out the tech that all the new startups here are...
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Pansharpening for higher resolution in Landsat-live
Landsat-live is now twice as crisp! We’ve added pansharpening to our constantly refreshed Landsat-live pipeline, and are now serving NASA’s Landsat 8 data at 15 meter resolution. The improvements from...
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