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3DR combines drone imagery with Autodesk

3D Robotics’ new app, Site Scan, combines imagery from their construction drone, Mapbox maps, and AutoCAD data to prevent expensive mistakes on constructions sites. Site Scan is the first end-to-end...

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Mapping with action cams, Mapillary and OpenStreetMap

Mapillary has made mapping with street level imagery in OpenStreetMap accessible to anyone. Simply take pictures from your phone using the Mapillary app, hit upload and use them directly in...

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Announcing Mapbox.cn

Today we are announcing Mapbox.cn, making Mapbox available at high speed in China. We are expanding our global Mapbox API infrastructure to bring the fastest possible service to anyone using our maps...

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Welcome Miles!

We’re excited to welcome Miles Sackler to Mapbox! Working closely with the business and engineering teams, Miles will help enterprise users build amazing applications with Mapbox.Before joining Mapbox,...

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Cory joins Mapbox!

Big welcome to Cory Guillory who has joined the Mapbox team in DC!Cory works with Enterprise customers, putting together agreements and helping connect companies with the tools they need to build...

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Open Mapping at OGP Summit 2016

Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit week is here, hosted by this year’s chair France. After the 2015 OGP Summit’s Open Mapping efforts, we are excited that open mapping will play an even bigger...

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Build Mapbox GL JS plugins

We spend days making sure that our maps are rendered quickly and beautifully, but that’s only part of what online maps are. Maps aren’t just a canvas for data: they’re also the zoom controls, scale...

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Kevin joins Mapbox!

We’re excited to welcome Kevin Fu who is joining the Mapbox business team! Kevin will be working out of the DC Garage, where he’ll help grow our enterprise customer base.Kevin joins us from DC-based...

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Un nuevo mapero en OpenStreetMap, el Presidente del Perú Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

English version below.Ayer, el Presidente del Perú, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski visitó a nuestro equipo en Ayacucho, aprendiendo sobre Mapbox y contribuyendo su primera edición a OpenStreetMap, la base de...

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Gokul Ganesan joins Mapbox!

We’re excited to welcome Gokul Ganesan to Mapbox! Gokul joins our team to improve OpenStreetMap and other datasets using satellite imagery, telemetry, and customer feedback.Gokul completed his master’s...

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Styling 3D buildings in Unity

The upcoming Mapbox Unity SDK is designed to bring full map capabilities to Unity. In this example built with the Mapbox Unity SDK, we applied a set of building facade images as textures to Mapbox...

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Take the 2016 OpenStreetMap US Census!

This year the OpenStreetMap US community is conducting a census! They want to learn more about who is mapping, why they’re doing it, and how to continue growing and nurturing the community.If you...

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Welcome, Sam Kronick!

We’re excited to welcome Sam Kronick to Mapbox! Sam joins our labs team in San Francisco to push on new projects in Mapbox GL and beyond.Before Mapbox, Sam founded 💾🌵 (“Disk Cactus”), an Oakland art...

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Using Mapbox to tackle cities' challenges

In September, we announced Mapbox Cities and started looking for three cities we can work with to solve the biggest urban challenges. Since then, more than 70 cities from six continents applied, laying...

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Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge

We’re helping to bring two of the largest open data projects closer together - OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. Wikidata is the free knowledge base that anyone can edit. It has grown to over 24 million...

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Animated marine traffic in the San Francisco Bay

Though it may be easy to overlook from life on land, the waters of San Francisco Bay are alive with activity at all hours of the day. To visualize how boats navigate the Bay, I built an animated map...

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Bring your maps to life with Runtime Styling on mobile

Our latest mobile SDKs introduce Runtime Styling, a feature that lets you dynamically change the look and feel of your map in real time. Lighten or darken the map based on the time of day, personalize...

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Aeronautical maps with ForeFlight

Pilots around the world rely on ForeFlight’s maps for flight planning, airport information, and weather data. Mapbox helps power ForeFlight’s mapping infrastructure so pilots can view one map that...

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Mapping the DC Metro

Transit maps done well are beautiful and functional visualizations of how people move through a city. For this DC Metro Trip Planner map, I used Mapbox GL JS data-driven styling and real-time train...

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Where we're going, we need Rhodes!

We’re excited to welcome David Rhodes to Mapbox! David joins our games team where he’ll be helping us build the tools you need to shape the future of geospatial data in games.David joins Mapbox from...

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