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Styling lanes in Mapbox Studio

Lanes are critical features on high resolution maps for automotive and mobility. You can use Mapbox Studio to style custom lane designs to fit your needs. Here’s a clean style that keeps all lanes...

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3D terrain in Unity

The Mapbox Unity SDK has full support for global digital elevation data in Unity. Our SDK ships with elevation encoded raster tiles from our global tiled digital elevation model that, together with...

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Jordan Kiley joins Mapbox

Welcome Jordan Kiley to Mapbox! Jordan joins our mobile team, where she’ll be supporting our users as they build great apps and contributing to the development of our iOS SDK.Jordan comes to Mapbox via...

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Eliminating malaria through mapping

Last year, Visualize No Malaria, a partnership between Zambia’s Ministry of Health, PATH, Tableau Foundation, and a coalition of tech partners, mapped 99% of buildings in Livingstone District, Zambia...

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Grants for OpenStreetMap communities

Do you belong to or know an amazing mapping community in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, or Africa? Or are you working in development, and want to get started with Open Mapping?...

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Mapping picnic sites on OpenStreetMap

What better way to get a head start on grilling season than mapping your favorite picnic sites! Last week Ajith and I updated OpenStreetMap’s in-browser editor to bundle the latest Maki icons. This...

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West Midlands is getting smart about transport disruptions

Smaller cities are stretching their resources by joining efforts with their neighbors on smart cities initiatives. With this new approach, these cities can still benefit from the agility of working as...

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Mapping congressional town halls

Monday marks the start of the Congressional recess, when many voters across the country will talk with their representatives in person at town hall meetings. I teamed up with Dylan from Development...

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你好, Shanghai!

We just updated our satellite imagery for one of the biggest cities in the world – Shanghai. Let me show you some of this fresh data:The old and new financial districts are at the center of the city....

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Start building your Android Wear 2.0 apps with Mapbox

Over the last few months our Android team has been getting ready for the launch of Android Wear 2.0. The Mapbox Android SDK includes full support for Android Wear 2.0 and is designed for the unique...

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Welcome Randall! VP of Sales

Welcome Randall Jackson, as VP of Sales! Randall is leading our sales team, running right next to me on the business side of the house.Not many people wake up in the morning wanting to buy an NoSQL...

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Introducing the Mapbox Studio Manual

Whether you’ve built with Mapbox Studio before or you’re not sure where to start, the new Mapbox Studio Manual is your guide to creating beautiful custom map styles. From a simple walk through of the...

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Welcome back, Marc!

Few people know the mapping industry as well as Marc Prioleau. He was a crucial early advisor to our team as we raised our first round of investment. After a stint at Uber, Marc is coming home to our...

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Motive.io + Mapbox Unity SDK

Motive.io, a platform for building location-based games, just launched with the latest version of the Mapbox Unity SDK. Here is how I used it to quickly create an augmented reality “Ghost Hunter”...

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Static API with overlays

As of today, you can add custom overlays to your static maps when making requests to the Static API. This is useful in situations where JavaScript is not available or if you’re trying to keep your UI...

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Launching the Mapbox Unity SDK

We are pleased to launch the Mapbox Unity SDK at the Game Developers Conference this week in San Francisco. We’re bringing global real world map layers, search, and directions to location-based games...

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Welcome to Mapbox Cities, Bloomington, IN!

Bloomington, Indiana, has a great track record when it comes to open source software. Bloomington’s Open311 uReport and GeoReporter tools are used by several other cities. Its inRoads app for sharing...

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Welcome to the team!

We’re very excited to announce four new team members here at Mapbox! Read along to meet Shannon, Anthony, Alex, and Dominic and find out what they’ll be working on.Shannon Myricks - OperationsShannon...

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New imagery for Vancouver and Toronto

We’ve just refreshed our satellite imagery for two beautiful Canadian cities, Toronto and Vancouver.Here’s a bit of central Vancouver, showing the shiny geodesic dome of the Science World museum, the...

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Welcome Sai Sriskandarajah, Mapbox's new VP of Legal!

“Grow your role enough so that when you hire your replacement, they’re 10x as good as you.”I first heard that that definition of entrepreneurial success from Tom Kalil, one of President Obama’s top...

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