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Sneak preview: iOS 10 notifications with Mapbox maps
At WWDC this year, Apple announced some great new APIs and capabilities for notifications coming in iOS 10. Notifications are now capable of showing media and even dynamic views. This means you can...
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Join us for Maps Camp 2016!
Mapbox is proud to co-host the first ever Maps Camp on July 9th, 2016 at the UN as part of the OpenCamps conference. This series of 30+ camps will bring together 6,000+ attendees excited about engaging...
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Come Party with DCFemTech!
Join Mapbox for a party tomorrow, June 24th at 6:30pm! We’re starting the weekend right, with a party to kick off DCFemTech’s Hack for Good Hackathon!Come by the Garage for a beverage or two, play a...
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David Clark Joins Mapbox
We’re excited to welcome David Clark to Mapbox. As part of the Mapbox Studio team, expect David to be behind a number of major improvements to our flagship application’s power, stability, and...
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MemSQL + Mapbox meetup in SF
We’re co-hosting a meetup with our friends at MemSQL next Wednesday, June 29 in San Francisco. RSVP here and swing by 534 Fourth St at 6:00pm PT to meet the teams!MemSQL is an in-memory database...
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Peace Corps mapping for malaria prevention
Last Wednesday, the Peace Corps came by our office for an OpenStreetMap Mapathon. For two hours, 15 volunteers got together to edit OpenStreetMap focusing on mapping the Milange district in...
View ArticleExpanding turn restrictions coverage in OpenStreetMap
Our team is in the process of updating and improving turn restrictions in OpenStreetMap for select cities around the world. Using the mapping guide for adding turn restrictions, Mapillary photos, and...
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512 map tiles
Since the launch of tiled web maps in 2005, there has been an implicit standard in mapping libraries: web maps are made up of many small, square images (known as “map tiles”) at a size of 256x256...
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Mobile fitness tracking with Suunto Movescount
Suunto Movescount helps you to make every move count, whether you’re a cyclist, mountaineer or golfer. Their mobile apps on iOS and Android track your movement throughout the day and now use our newly...
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Retina support for ArcGIS Online
Mapbox Esri Connect supports Retina (@2x) tiles by default in ArcGIS Online. High resolution Retina displays can turn non-Retina enabled maps into a rather fuzzy experience. The image below attempts to...
View ArticleNative marker views & customizable user location on Android
Our latest Android SDK release introduces powerful, customizable marker views, new ways to customize your user location layer, the Mapbox account manager, and much more.Marker viewsMarker views are a...
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Visualizing Eurovision Shazam tags with Mapbox GL
Last month, over 200 million viewers watched the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. The annual musical extravaganza features a singing competition, in which each European country sends a homegrown singer to...
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Rio Olympics Mapathon results
The 2016 Olympics are getting closer! Last weekend, as part of the first online Mapathon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, mappers traced fresh satellite imagery over Rio to add and improve Olympic sport...
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Download the Mapbox Android demo app
We created the Mapbox Android demo app to show off all the new and current features in our Android SDK. Try out the app by downloading it from the Google Play Store, no coding required, we promise!The...
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Launching the redesigned OpenStreetMap Mapping guides
We’ve given our OpenStreetMap Mapping guides a fresh new look and are launching the updated English and Spanish versions for anyone to use and start contributing to OpenStreetMap. The guides are now...
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Safer flying with AirMap
The FAA’s new rules for small UAVs mean that a lot more drones are going to work in the U.S. Our friends at AirMap are building maps and data services that make it possible for companies and pilots to...
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How to build a location picker for your app!
Location pickers in apps are useful for helping people coordinate rides and deliveries while on the go. Here’s how to build one for your app using the Android SDK!The main components needed to make a...
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Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata
iD, OpenStreetMap’s entry-level editing tool, now supports Wikidata, the freely licensed database that powers fact boxes and other structured content at Wikipedia.Another tool for mappers and...
View ArticleWhite House Mapathon today!
The second annual White House Mapathon is today! Last year was a blast, and we are so excited to celebrate open mapping in government. Mikel will be there creating map data and sharing power mapping...
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Amisha Singla joins Mapbox!
Join us in welcoming Amisha Singla to the growing engineering team in Bangalore! Amisha is a contributor to GNOME’s Outreachy program where she developed the print support for the direction feature in...
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