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Announcing Mapbox Drive
Mapbox Drive is the first lane guidance map designed for car companies to control the in-car experience. Built specifically for semi-autonomous driving, ride sharing, and connected cars, the map is...
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Interacting with the local mapping community using OpenStreetMap Notes
We regularly use Notes on OpenStreetMap to share and solve problems on the map. With Notes, anyone can quickly point out errors or omissions in the map and ask for verification from local...
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Maanya Umashaanker joins Mapbox!
We’re thrilled to welcome Maanya Umashaanker to the data team! Maanya joins us to improve OpenStreetMap and other datasets using satellite imagery, probe data, and analyzing customer feedback.Maanya...
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Manohar Erikipati joins Mapbox!
We are excited to welcome Manohar to Mapbox. Manohar joins us to improve OpenStreetMap and other datasets using a combination of satellite imagery and analysing customer feedback.Manohar studied...
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See you at Esri UC 2016!
The annual Esri User Conference is coming up at the end of the month, and we can’t wait to see you there. We’ll be hanging out on the USS Midway, one of the longest-serving aircraft carriers in the US...
View ArticleData-driven styling for fill layers in Mapbox GL JS
The latest Mapbox GL JS release (v0.19.0) includes data-driven styling support for fill-color and fill-outline-color. Data-driven styling opens up advanced data vizualization and map design...
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Xinnong Yang to head business development in China
Xinnong Yang is joining Mapbox to lead business development in China. Based in Shanghai he will work on expanding our sales and partnerships with Chinese and international customers. Xinnong comes with...
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Angelina Calderon joins Mapbox!
Angelina Calderon has joined the Mapbox team in San Francisco! As a member of our customer success team, Angelina helps Mapbox customers get the most out of the platform.Prior to joining Mapbox,...
View ArticleOlá Rio! High resolution Olympic preview
Brazil’s preparations for this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro have taken six years, $11.1 billion, and transformed parts of the city. High-resolution satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe is...
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Mapbox Satellite Streets redesigned
Last week’s launch of our redesigned maps included a fresh revamp of Mapbox Satellite Streets. Our goal was to add meaningful context of vector data to our vibrant Mapbox Satellite imagery without...
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Ajith Ranka joins Mapbox!
A big welcome to Ajith Ranka, who has joined the Mapbox team! Ajith will focus on improving OpenStreetMap data by building better tools for mapping and validation.Ajith is passionate about good design,...
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Hannah Judge joins Mapbox!
Hannah Judge has joined the Mapbox customer success team in San Francisco! Hannah uses her experience in mapping to help our customers get the most from our maps and APIs.Prior to joining Mapbox,...
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HOT tools to keep up with the OpenStreetMap Community
The OpenStreetMap community and database are moving so fast, it is hard to track all the growth. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and Missing Maps have recently launched new tools to understand the...
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Mapbox Light and Dark redesign
We released new Mapbox Light and Dark maps last week as a part of our broader map redesign and relaunch. We have offered updates to Light and Dark in the past, but this iteration presented an...
View ArticleConverting a project from Mapbox.js to Mapbox GL JS
For developers who have experience building web maps with Mapbox.js or Leaflet, switching old projects to use Mapbox GL JS can drastically improve the performance of your existing applications. Mapbox...
View ArticleImproved performance for your maps
Your maps are about to get faster thanks to some newly updated vector tiles and a soon-to-be-released version of Mapbox GL JS using Earcut.Check out this side-by-side video of Mapbox GL JS 0.19-dev and...
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Mapbox Outdoors redesign
Last week we launched a redesign of Mapbox Outdoors, our general use map tailored for hiking, biking, and the most adventurous use cases. It now incorporates more lightly styled road and transit...
View ArticlePlan your bike ride to work
Today is Bike to Work Day in D.C.! Using Mapbox cycling directions, we made a handy ride planner to plot your route, and highlight any of the 84 pit stops you might pass along the way. To customize...
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Optimized raster color corrections with rio-color
Last week we launched rio-color– an open source Rasterio plugin for color adjustment of geospatial rasters. We’re using it as part of our production image processing chain to keep our satellite basemap...
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Find us at PyCon!
Next week a bunch of us will be in Portland, Oregon for PyCon and we’re excited to meet you there!PyCon is the biggest annual meeting of the developers and users of the Python programming language....
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