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Nadia Barbosa joins Mapbox!
We are thrilled to welcome Nadia Barbosa to Mapbox! Nadia is joining us on the Support team, answering troubleshooting questions and working on our Help documentation to give our users the best...
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Erin Quinn joins Mapbox!
We’re delighted to welcome Erin Quinn, who is joining the Mapbox business team in DC! They’ll be diving in to work with enterprise customers and help bring new companies to the Mapbox platform.Prior to...
View ArticleMapping historic Boston in the Mapbox Studio dataset editor
I recently created a historical map of Boston using the new Mapbox Studio dataset editor.The geographic footprint of Boston has changed drastically over the past several hundred years. Luckily, there...
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Custom dynamic markers with the Mapbox iOS SDK and PaintCode
Using PaintCode and the Mapbox iOS SDK, we can create a workflow for custom markers and interface elements in an app without paying a price in performance or busywork.Building visually rich,...
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Launch of Map for Environment, unprecedented environmental data in the commons
Our friends Moabi are launching Map for Environment, working with OpenStreetMap to monitor the world’s natural resources, and addressing the toughest problems facing our planet.From space, the earth’s...
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Mapping U.S. wildfire data from public feeds
With the Mapbox Datasets API, you can create data-based maps that continuously update. As new data arrives, you can push incremental changes to your datasets, then update connected tilesets or use the...
View ArticleLearn C++ at GridKa School this Thursday!
I will be attending GridKa School at KIT Campus North in Karlsruhe next week — a summer school for advanced computing techniques.Thursday, 1st September:11:00 am – 6:00 pm: Modern & Idiomatic C++14...
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Interactive 3D maps in Unity
Mantle, the game engine plugin for designing 3D maps in Unity, just leaked screenshots of its new 3D terrain and maps. Developers are no longer constrained to a limited geographic area, they can now...
View ArticleOpen data and traffic fatalities
Traffic fatalities in the U.S. jumped 7.2% to 35,092 last year, the sharpest increase in about 50 years. Yesterday the NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) released final 2015 data on...
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Creating accurate 3D building shadows in Unity
The new Mantle plugin for Unity, which adds real world terrain and streets to games, allows full control over lighting. Being able to simulate real world lighting conditions is key for creating...
View ArticleChinese, Japanese, and Korean glyph support in GL
We just rolled out improved support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) labels in Mapbox GL JS and GL Native. With our GL improvements that accommodate a larger glyph atlas and character range,...
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2016 White House LGBT Tech & Innovation Briefing
Last week I was honored to attend the third annual White House LGBT Tech & Innovation Briefing. Over 200 LGBTQ tech professionals convened at the White House to discuss how the tech community can...
View ArticleInfinite possibilities with iOS annotation views
We recently released our iOS SDK 3.3 with the powerful new functionality of the MGLAnnotationView class, letting developers bring in anything they can create—or have created already—in native iOS views...
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New maps for Ushahidi
Ushahidi has recently switched to Mapbox Streets and Satellite! Ushahidi is an influential crowdsourcing platform that allows users to gather data from a variety of devices with custom surveys and...
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Open mapping with UW's Cartography Lab
This week, Sam, Molly, Angelina, and I represented Mapbox at the University of Wisconsin’s Cartography Lab Education Series Workshop in Madison. The series provides a regular forum for students,...
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See you this weekend at NingJS 2016!
I just arrived in Nanjing, China to meet with developers at this year’s NingJS conference! If you’re in town for the event, join us on Sunday at 15:40 for my Build a Better App with Mapbox...
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Find us at AWS Summit Beijing
We’re in Beijing this week for the AWS Summit Beijing! On Thursday, I’ll give a keynote about how we serve fast maps in China, where the Mapbox API has gotten eight times faster since launching in the...
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eScooter sharing with COUP in Berlin
COUP is an electric scooter sharing company that just launched their mobile app for iOS, using our mobile SDK.With the help of Mapbox Geocoding, riders in Berlin can now find and reserve the scooter...
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Imagery alignment with telemetry
Anonymized location data from our mobile SDKs helps us continuously improve our maps. We use this data to discover missing streets, add turn restrictions, improve directions, and now to help our...
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Create data from drone imagery
Mapbox Studio provides a powerful workflow of uploading and visualizing custom datasets. But what if the data you need is so recent or niche that a dataset doesn’t exist yet? If the data does exist,...
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