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Mumbai's landfill fire captured on Landsat
Three days ago, Mumbai’s largest landfill located in the east caught fire, choking the air with toxic fumes. It took two days for the fire to be brought under control, by which time the city’s...
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Data quality + vandalism detection in OpenStreetMap
We’re developing tools like osmlint to identify and fix common geometry and metadata problems in OpenStreetMap. At this week’s GeoDC meetup, I’ll discuss the challenges of maintaining high-quality map...
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Better navigation with new road classifications in Mapbox Streets
Soon you’ll be able to highlight the road features most relevant to your map style with the new Mapbox Streets v7. We’ve expanded our road classifications, for more flexible styling and so you can dive...
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Washington Post real-time election results
Election season officially kicks off tonight at 7 PM CST in Iowa. You can follow the action in real-time using The Washington Post’s live election map. Built by Development Seed using US Census data,...
View ArticleCompare styles added to Mapbox Studio
Check out the new compare view inside Mapbox Studio’s debug panel. Use it to ensure colors are harmonious and label placement is consistent across styles, or to see how a particular style looks with...
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Get on the map!
Our maps are based on OpenStreetMap. This means that within minutes, you can add your local knowledge: roads, cafés, buildings, cycling trails, and more. Here is your guide to getting started.Let’s get...
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Space, Science, Hardware, and Lesbians Who Tech
We are more than excited to attend the Lesbians Who Tech Summit in San Francisco later this month! Not only is the theme of this summit right up our alley (Space, Science, Hardware, and More), but it’s...
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Drag and drop assets in Mapbox Studio
Drag and drop is now supported in Mapbox Studio. You can drag and drop data, icons, and fonts into the style editor and start using them instantly.You can also drag and drop data and style JSON files...
View ArticleBusiness intelligence powered by Mapbox
Modern business intelligence (BI) is more than charts and graphs. Need to identify insurance policyholders in a storm’s path? Compare spending and pedestrian traffic to optimize store locations? Plan...
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325,454 new buildings on San Francisco Peninsula
We just finished our building tracing sprint, adding 173,447 building polygons on the San Francisco Peninsula. Together with our 2014 San Francisco building sprint this brings us to a total of 325,454...
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Ramping Up in Studio
Zoom is a fundamental design element for maps. The same cartography can show political borders at one zoom and detailed building shapes close up. With Mapbox Studio and Mapbox GL, we support...
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Open source interpolation for geocoding
Our geocoder combines address points and interpolation lines from hundreds of open and proprietary datasets around the world. When searching for an address, we first look for a matching address point,...
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Introducing private maps and data encryption
Maps can now be locked and set to private, giving you total control over who is looking at your data. No one can see your private maps without your access token.The new private map settings apply to...
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Mapbox iOS SDK 3.1.0
The Mapbox iOS SDK is more dynamic than ever! Version 3.1.0 is now available, featuring numerous improvements to the installation process, animation, and customizability.If you’ve installed this SDK...
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Use your Mapbox Studio styles everywhere
Mapbox now supports older browsers like Internet Explorer 9 and the styles you create in Studio are perfectly backwards-compatible. To make this possible, we render vector tiles into raster images with...
View ArticleSan Francisco, Super Bowl Sunday
Yesterday, as crowds headed to watch the Super Bowl, DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite collected an astonishing view of San Francisco:East is up in this image. The Marin Headlands are in the lower...
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Your first steps with JOSM - the Java OpenStreetMap editor
The iD editor is the easiest way to get started with OpenStreetMap. But there may come a time when more power and precision is needed – our mapping team uses the Java OpenStreetMap (JOSM) editor every...
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Create landmark-focused, travel maps with Mapbox Streets
Scenic beauty, cultural heritage, artistic and culinary diversity – what’s not to enjoy when planning a European vacation? Now you can design travel maps that highlight only the best tourist...
View ArticleCreating a map and a native app in 5 minutes
See how yesterday’s update of the Mapbox iOS SDK and Mapbox Studio’s powerful workflows fit perfectly together.
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Taller de mapeo en Piura, Perú
This week, Rubén and I will support the U.S. State Department MapGive program, at a workshop in Piura, Perú, sharing data collection and mapping tools.Esta semana, Rubén y yo prestaremos apoyo al...
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