3D building data for San Francisco
You’ll find now height data for 140,484 San Francisco buildings in our maps. We have partnered with the San Francisco OpenStreetMap community to add this data directly into OpenStreetMap from where...
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We switched to Amazon ECS and you won't believe what happened next
The Mapbox platform is powered by Amazon Web Services — specifically, most of our computing workloads run on AWS EC2. We’re in the process of wrapping up a company-wide migration (led by the Platform...
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Welcome, Mugdha Bhattacharya!
Mugdha just joined the Operations team at Mapbox Bangalore, where she’ll focus on building systems and processes around recruiting and onboarding. She’ll also work on creating strong people support...
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Hello, Explorer: The new Mapbox logo
As the astronaut looks up at the stars, she’s ready to explore. Our team is driven by curiosity. An astronaut’s helmet, reflecting a star in the distance, embodies our ambitions to build the platform...
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Showcase your business on GoDaddy with custom location tools
GoDaddy has launched GoCentral to help businesses everywhere build better websites. We’re thrilled to help power GoDaddy with effective location tools that combine the Mapbox Streets style, GL JS, and...
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Introducing the Navigation SDK for Android
We’ve just released the Mapbox Navigation SDK for Android, making it easy to include a complete navigation experience from within your application. With the Navigation SDK, your users stay engaged and...
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1.7 million buildings mapped to fight malaria
Over the past few months, nearly 3,000 contributors have traced almost 1.7 million buildings, in a coordinated effort to map 500,000 km² of the malaria-affected world.Volunteers use satellite imagery...
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Going from Caches to Cash on AWS using the EC2 Spot Market
Caching increases map performance significantly, improving the experience for hundreds of millions of people zooming around our map. In addition to using a global edge network that brings our maps as...
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Redux for state management in large web apps
Building a state management system around Redux has allowed us to keep the complex codebase of Mapbox Studio (our version of Photoshop for maps) manageable and testable. We’ve used Redux to establish...
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Say hello to the Studio Preview app
We just released Mapbox Studio Preview on the App Store. Studio Preview, a companion app to Mapbox Studio, allows you to view any map style directly from your device. Whether you’re prototyping a new...
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Designing live traffic
Our new traffic maps are live in our API! Take a look at the changes we’ve made to our traffic cartography in these side by side images:Improved color classification for live trafficWe shifted the...
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Welcome, Olivia Brundage!
Olivia Brundage has joined the security team at Mapbox in D.C., where she’ll be focused on enhancing our auditing and monitoring tools and further developing our procedures for internal penetration...
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WGS84 precision in Unity World Space
Placing features on a map in the correct geographic coordinates requires precision and accuracy to match the real world locations. We’ve created a data structure in Unity for geo coordinates to match...
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Efficient multi-stop routes with the Optimization API
Today we’re launching the Optimization API, which lets you quickly optimize multi-stop itineraries. You can pass up to 12 locations to the API and it will return the optimal order for making the stops...
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A whole new Earth for tracing on OpenStreetMap
Today, two new global satellite imagery layers are live for tracing on OpenStreetMap, courtesy of DigitalGlobe. Now, mappers have even more sources of high quality, recent imagery layers to trace,...
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Duda launches with Mapbox to add drag and drop maps
Duda has launched a new map tool in its website builder to help web professionals, marketing agencies, and small businesses create websites that attract more customers.Customers can find their business...
View ArticleOptimize trips using Mapbox Android Services v2.1
Mapbox Android Services (MAS) provides an out of the box solution for adding Directions, Geocoding, Map Matching, and more inside your Java and Android applications. The latest v2.1 release of MAS now...
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Deprecating streambot: a poem
Today, the Platform team completed the deprecation of streambot, which was our open-source, homegrown solution for providing Lambda functions with environment variables and connectors to read from...
View ArticleIntroducing plugins for Android
You can now contribute to the Mapbox Mobile SDK with plugins. Plugins are single-purpose libraries built on top of our mobile SDK to include in your apps, like any other library dependency.Splitting...
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OpenAddresses has 440M points. How can we tell when we're done?
Michal Migurski’s contributions to the open data community are almost too numerous to count. Most recently, Mapbox has been pleased to support his work on the OpenAddresses project, including more...
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