Search points of interest by radius with Mapbox GL JS
Mapbox GL JS provides new and interesting ways to query data found on a map. We built an example that filters points of interest by genre, which uses the featuresAt method to only select data based on...
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Welcome Tobrun Van Nuland!
We are excited to welcome Tobrun Van Nuland to Mapbox! He joins our Mobile team where he’ll be working with our native SDKs and their integrations with the entire Mapbox tech stack.Tobrun lives and...
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Introducing the Directions Library for Android
We have just released a new Directions Library for Android. With this library you can easily add driving, walking, and cycling routes to your Android app, draw it on a map, and even detect when the...
View ArticleLinting OpenStreetMap Data
Just yesterday, over 1.5m nodes and 150k ways were added to OpenStreetMap. We are working on OSM Lint - an open source suite of validators - to understand the quality of OpenStreetMap data, and to...
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Introducing the Geocoder Library for Android
Introducing the Geocoder Library for AndroidFollowing the announcement earlier this week of a new directions library, today we are introducing a geocoder library for Android.This library lets you...
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Tracking conversations in OpenStreetMap
Mapbox contributes extensively to OpenStreetMap, and frequently interacts with the OpenStreetMap community through comments on changesets and notes on the map. We wanted a way, outside of email...
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Emily DuBois Joins Mapbox!
Emily DuBois is joining the Mapbox team! As a developer, she’ll focus on improving how we ingest OpenStreetMap data and more. She joins us from Opower, where she managed the development of data-driven...
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Designing the Swiss Ski style in Mapbox Studio
Swiss maps have long been praised for their accuracy, quality, and beauty. Since 1938 the Swisstopo– Swiss Federal Office of Topography, has been producing maps for hikers, Alpinists, cyclists,...
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Explore the X-Files
For seven seasons, Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully of The X-Files took us around the world as they investigated the unknown. To celebrate the series reboot, I built an interactive map of every X-File...
View ArticleCommunity mapping in Mongolia at the O'Reilly Design Conference
Come say hello this Friday, January 22nd at the O'Reilly Design Conference. As part of the Design for Social Impact track, I’ll be discussing the work of the Nomadic Mapping Collective, a community...
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Mapbox Android Version 3.1.0
We just released version 3.1.0 of the Mapbox Android SDK, which contains more than 100 core improvements and bug fixes. The new version focuses on improved navigation features for in-car and on-dash...
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A glimpse of the Mapbox Studio dataset editor
With Mapbox Studio, you can create and design beautiful, custom maps to your exact specifications. Soon, you’ll be able to do the same with your data. Take a look at this sneak peek of the Mapbox...
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Mapbox Directions on OSRM 4.9
This week the Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) saw a new release 4.9.1 (following 4.9.0). The 4.9 versions are focused on internal restructuring to enable future improvements. Among the changes you...
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Sam Matthews joins Mapbox!
Sam Matthews is joining the Mapbox team! As a developer, he will focus on improving the open source tools and documentation around Vector Tiles. Sam joins us from Code for America, where he worked on...
View ArticleMapping winter storm Jonas
The first flakes of winter storm Jonas are just beginning to fall at the Mapbox Garage. Damon used forecast data from NOAA’s High Resolution Rapid Refresh Model to animate the storm’s arrival in the...
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Embedding navigation within your app
Sign up for early accessWe're building an open source library that can put turn-by-turn directions right in your app, so that your users don't need to switch between apps to get where they need to go....
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Bringing native Mapbox maps to hybrid mobile developers
With Telerik’s new plugins for Cordova and NativeScript, your can write mobile applications with HTML & JavaScript without sacrificing the performance of the Mapbox’s native iOS and Android...
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Labels on top
Ever gone through crazy cartographic contortions to keep your labels from being buried? Transparency, offsets, and overlays can be tricky and often suboptimal solutions:You can keep labels on top with...
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Hannah Gelfond joins Mapbox!
We’re excited to welcome Hannah Gelfond to the Mapbox team! She’ll be running alongside Eric, helping him to scale as the team continues to grow. As a member of the Operations team, she will also...
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Whoops, where'd my label go?
With Mapbox Studio, it’s easy to make a map with labels on top. It’s a little more tricky to know when a particular label should render. We’ve done the hard work of keeping labels legible so you don’t...
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