Brendan McFarland joins Mapbox!
A big welcome to Brendan McFarland, who recently joined the finance team. Brendan first discovered Mapbox while developing a hobby project to conduct public transit monitoring after a few too many...
View ArticleMapping public transit in Bangalore
Buses are Bangalore’s favourite mode of transport. The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC), one the oldest transport organisations in India, operates over 2000 routes with a fleet...
View ArticleMaps for IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant is launching new maps! Run any query or spatial operation on your Cloudant data and visualize the results on an interactive map.Cloudant speaks GeoJSON fluently, so our APIs were easy to...
View ArticleLetting you know if law enforcement asks for your data
Last week, Mapbox joined a coalition of startups filing in court to seek greater transparency around government requests for information.Laws like the PATRIOT Act and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
View ArticleOpenAddresses Now Has 220 Million Points
That was fast: OpenAddresses now contains 220 million addresses. You might recall that the project began 2015 with 100 million points. It’s been growing steadily since, adding an average of about three...
View ArticleTableau integrates Studio
Building custom maps and data layers for Tableau is now a totally visual experience. Tableau 9.3 includes support for Mapbox Studio, just in time for Tableau’s mapping month!Tableau Zen Masters and...
View ArticleMapbox SF, now 2x as big
Our San Francisco office is now twice as big. Last month we took over the space next door, knocked down the wall between us, and now have the entire top floor of the Storek building in Soma – giving us...
View ArticleDesign workshop with Mapbox Studio
Join us at our Bengaluru office on February 25th to learn map design with the new Mapbox Studio, and take a peek at our team’s day to day work.View the map full screenThis workshop is for anyone who...
View ArticleWelcome Noemi Walzebuck!
We’re very excited to welcome Noemi Walzebuck to the Mapbox business team. Noemi joins us in San Francisco, where she’ll be helping developers and product teams learn about how they can use Mapbox to...
View ArticleTake to the skies with the Mapbox iOS SDK
Go beyond simple linear animations with fly-to transitions, available in the latest version of our iOS SDK. Take advantage of this fluid animation style through user tracking mode://...
View ArticleSay hi at Howard University tomorrow!
Tomorrow Carol, Ian, and I will be attending Howard University’s career fair. We’re pumped to talk with students about how they can get started using Mapbox, about our current job openings, and overall...
View ArticleExplore your world through field mapping with OpenStreetMap
Now that you have started mapping the world on OpenStreetMap from the comfort of your chair, let’s see how to add addresses, street names, and amenities using first-hand observations with field...
View ArticleAnalyzing 579,677 properties in Philadelphia
Vector Tiles and Mapbox GL JS provide flexibility and control when working with large datasets to power your business intelligence. Using property assessment data from OpenDataPhilly, I built an...
View ArticleWelcome Jesse Bounds!
Jesse Bounds has joined the Mobile team in San Francisco. Jesse holds a Masters in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. With his wealth of experience in mobile...
View ArticleFresh imagery for Beira, Mozambique
We just updated our imagery in Beira, Mozambique as part of our commitment to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).Area requested for fresh imagery along the East N6 corridor near Pungue River in...
View ArticleBecome a power mapper!
Now that you know how to get on the map and got started with the Java OpenStreetMap Editor (JOSM), let’s take it up a notch with advanced mapping techniques. In this post, I will walk through common...
View ArticleDCFemTech Inspire
We’re excited to support tonight’s inaugural DCFemTech Inspire event. DCFemTech is a coalition of leaders aimed at providing opportunities for women in tech organizations, sharing resources, and...
View ArticleFind us at the Lesbians Who Tech Summit
I’ll be at the Lesbians Who Tech Summit in San Francisco today through Sunday, along with nine of my teammates. The (sold out!) conference looks spectacular - it’s bringing together 1,500 lesbians and...
View ArticleIntroducing the Mapbox CLI
We’d like to introduce you to the Mapbox CLI, the command line interface to Mapbox web services. It’s for users who want to automate their use of Mapbox APIs without committing to writing a full...
View ArticleIntroducing Mapbox Streets v7
Mapbox Streets v7 is now available in Mapbox Studio. Based on OpenStreetMap, Mapbox Streets provides a global set of data that’s ready to be customized for any map design. With v7, we’ve added features...
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