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Creating Minecraft-inspired Worlds with the Mapbox Unity SDK
Our Mapbox Unity SDK is all about bringing real world map data to the world of mobile games, AR, and VR. This doesn’t always mean near-reality representations like the SimCity scene we blogged about...
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Howdy, Tableau Conference!
We’re in Austin, TX this week to show new 3D maps and data in Tableau.Tableau already integrates Mapbox natively for powerful, customizable maps in your viz. Mapbox can offer even more for your viz...
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Michael Krasnyk joins Mapbox!
We’re excited to welcome Michael Krasnyk to Mapbox! Michael will be based in Munich, where he’ll help the directions team develop our open-source routing engine OSRM.Michael joins Mapbox from...
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Mapbox access now available in Mantle 1.1!
Our friends at Mantle, the plugin for effortlessly designing 3D environments in Unity, just released the 1.1 version of Mantle Environment System on the Unity Asset Store and it now includes Mapbox...
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Resolve to build with Mapbox
2016 was a big year at Mapbox. We grew fast, breaking 200 team members in December. On the product side, we introduced tons of new products and features and continued work on our core infrastructure to...
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Kushan Joshi joins Mapbox!
We are excited to welcome Kushan Joshi to Mapbox!Kushan will strengthen our processes for mapping and validating OpenStreetMap, as well as other datasets. He is a core developer of OpenStreetMap’s iD...
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Ryan Baumann talks cities, analytics, and resources industries on IBM...
I caught up with the folks over at IBM’s New Builders podcast after AWS re:Invent to talk about what’s ahead for Mapbox, geospatial analysis, and natural resource industries. Check out the podcast...
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Visualizing an entire city's buildings live with runtime styling
I’m using runtime styling to make a new mobile native version of Justin Palmer’s Portland buildings map, which shows the age of every building in the city going back to the 1840s. Justin’s work from a...
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Tidy data visualization with coastal clipped polygons
What’s wrong with this picture?For those less familiar with the geography of the midwestern United States, here’s a hint:Notice the big change in the northwestern point of the state? That distinctive...
View ArticleExplore satellite data for global development at SatSummit
The Sat is back - SatSummit, that is. The only conference focusing on the intersection of satellite industry and global development, SatSummit hosts an important conversation on how we can better...
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How to design a Minecraft-inspired world with Mapbox and Unity
A few weeks ago I used the Mapbox Unity SDK to create a Minecraft-inspired world. I got a lot of interest after that initial blog post, so I put together a step-by-step guide of how to create your own...
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Open Mapping the Global Goals at the World Data Forum
Next week, the World Data Forum gathers in Cape Town, South Africa to start the hard detailed work to measure and achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We are excited our friends from...
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Lizzie Gooding joins Mapbox!
We’re excited to welcome Lizzie Gooding to the Mapbox team!Lizzie will be working closely with us as we scale up our support team. She’ll be answering troubleshooting questions and working hard on our...
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A smarter city: partnering with Melbourne to solve complex urban challenges
Melbourne is changing the way cities are run. Australia’s fastest growing city’s Smart City Office has a clear vision: to enhance the aspects of our city that make us uniquely Melbourne, and...
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3 inch imagery resolution for Washington, DC
We updated our basemap in Washington, DC with aerial imagery at 3 inch (7.5 cm) resolution. The source data is openly licensed by DC.gov, thanks to the District’s open data initiative.Cherry blossoms...
View ArticleBuild your next IoT project with Mapbox
A couple of weeks ago Google announced Android Things, which brings official Android support to popular IoT devices like Raspberry Pi 3, Intel Edison, or NXP Pico.This means that you can use all the...
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Mapping wind barbs to show speed and direction
Wind barbs are ideal for visualizing wind patterns over a large area: they point in the direction of travel, and their length and notches at the end denote velocity at each position. For example, a...
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Welcome Kathleen Lu!
We’re excited to welcome Kathleen Lu to Mapbox! As an IP specialist, Kathleen will focus on Mapbox’s open source and open data frameworks and our copyright, patent, and trademark policies.Kathleen...
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Adding POIs in OpenStreetMap: Osmic JOSM style
When you’re adding POI’s with JOSM, the default map paint style can make it hard to see the POI’s already mapped. I found this awesome osmic-josm-style plugin that enables icons on all POI’s.This style...
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Ski maps for travel apps
I’m designing a new ski map in Studio; highlighting the elevation in the terrain, showing each ski trail, and showing all the gondolas and chair lifts going up the mountain. tl;dr scroll to the bottom...
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