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Opening Space in San Francisco at Code for America
Starting today MapBox has a new awesome space at Code for America in San Francisco (155 9th Street). We’re increasingly working in the Bay Area and with our team growing rapidly this new space...
View ArticleCartoCSS at Tonight's GeoDC Meetup
Tonight’s GeoDC meetup - 7:00 pm at Stetson’s at 16th and U streets - will look at styling, scaling, processing, and analyzing large geodata sets.Tom will present on CartoCSS, the map styling language...
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National Park Service Launches Park Tiles
The National Park Service has a long standing cartographic tradition. With the launch of Park Tiles they bring this tradition online. Park Tiles are a beautiful, highly customized set of maps built...
View ArticleFedGeoDay Schedule Out, Jam Packed
The schedule for FedGeoDay - a one day conference on modern, open geospatial tools and how to use them in the government - is out and is filled with case studies, discussions, and technology showcases....
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Landsat 8 Launches
We had a launch party today at 1:02pm EST, as NASA and USGS successfully launched the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft aboard an Atlas-5 rocket, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
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Garrett Miller Joins MapBox
We’re excited to announce that Garrett Miller is joining our team at MapBox. Garrett shares our passion for bringing together code and design and has a long history of work as an artist, designer, and...
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Using TileMill's raster-colorizer
Terrain maps are awesome, but creating them has been at best a complicated six-step process.Reproject the data with gdalwarpCreate hillshades with gdaldem hillshadeGenerate color-relief with gdaldem...
View ArticleRyan Ford Joins MapBox
We’re excited to announce that animator, designer, and illustrator Ryan Ford is joining the MapBox team. He’ll bring his expansive imagination, refined aesthetic, and experience as an interaction...
View ArticleInternational Open Data Day February 23rd: Map Kathmandu on OpenStreetMap
Come out for International Open Data Day and help map the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. We will be joining forces with OpenStreetMap Nepal and the World Bank’s GFDRR to create a comprehensive map of...
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Expanding TileMill's Building Symbolizer to Visualize Complex 3d Structures
TileMill’s ability to map 3D complex structures continues to improve. This is a quick post sharing new details since Dave previously wrote about using Mapnik’s Building Symbolizer, demonstrating how to...
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Kicking off 2013 at MapBox
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Growing our Imagery Team, Charlie Loyd joins MapBox
Charlie Loyd is joining the MapBox team, bringing extensive knowledge of satellite imagery and raster data processing as we continue to expand and refine our global imagery layer – MapBox...
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Stats from Mapping Kathmandu
At last week’s International Open Data day, over twenty volunteers came out here at the Washington DC Open Data Hackathon to map Kathmandu on OpenStreetMap in an effort to provide high-value base data...
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TileMill for Raster Analysis
I’ve previously written about the new raster support TileMill has due to the raster-colorizer functionality, which makes it quick and easy to turn elevation data, single-band raster data, and and...
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MapBox iOS SDK Goes 1.0.0 + New Features
Our iOS SDK has reached version 1.0.0, marking completion of the first stage of functionality and stability. From the SDK’s beginning last year – rooted in an open source project – we’ve been...
View ArticleHiring a Node.js Developer to Join our DevOps Team
We are looking for a talented developer to join the DevOps team at MapBox. You will be working with a dedicated group of engineers, passionate about open source and open data, building the best custom...
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Download the Completely Redesigned MeatText
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Scaled Data Value Design in TileMill
Scaled data values can ensure that a user’s eyes are drawn to important data points rather than geographical anomalies associated with many choropleth maps, and do so without the added abstraction of...
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Survive the Zombie Apocalypse with MapBox
Imagine the zombie apocalypse has hit today and all you’re left with is a butter knife, 100 pieces of ammo, and MapBox maps. Your favorite local haunts have become havens for the belligerent undead,...
View ArticleMapBox Happy Hour in San Francisco
Join us next Monday, March 25, at 6:30pm at Bloodhound in San Francisco, for a happy hour to celebrate the 1.0.0 release of the MapBox iOS SDK. We’ll have some folks in town, so come out and talk about...
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