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Open Government Happy Hour at the MapBox Garage
Join us for happy hour Friday, May 3, in the MapBox Garage where we’re kicking off Transparency Camp with a party. Over beers and snacks, we’ll talk open government, open data, technology, and more...
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Neighborhood Mapping with Dynamic Vector Data Layers
With last week’s release of MapBox.js 1.0, adding vector data to your MapBox map is a lot easier. A sophisticated example of mapping with vector data is Hipmunk’s hotel search. This post walks you...
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At the Edge of the Sahara
A convergence of three ecosystems at the edge of the Sahara: the desert of Sudan in the northwest, the savanna of South Sudan in the southwest, and the Ethiopian highlands in the east. In the northwest...
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MeatText Featured by Apple
MeatText is featured by Apple under Navigation! Get the app!
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Visualizing the Progress of OpenStreetMap Around the World
To visualize the progress of OpenStreetMap as its contributors map their local communities and the world, I’ve been using Mark Newman's cartogram tool to distort world maps, making the areas where...
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Forecast.io Precipitation Data Animated
Global precipitation data, from 0-360, (so South America is on the right). This powers forecast.io’s global and regional views. Just playing for now and enjoying working with the @darkskyapp...
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Mapping Monsters
Replete with monsters and robots, our new video shows how social maps are, and how they are part of everything mobile.For starters, I hashed out a storyboard. Visually representing the points we aimed...
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2006-2013 OpenStreetMap Growth, Animated
Just a quick update to Monday’s post on Visualizing the Progress of OpenStreetMap Around the World, where I make the areas where OpenStreetMap has been edited the most appear the largest.
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Analyzing Infrared Bands with TileMill
We’re using TileMill more and more as an analytical tool, especially as we explore infrared bands. Infrared is not visible to the human eye, but it carries a wealth of environmental information, and...
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Land Use Borders in Southwest Africa
The border running east-west near the middle of this image is between Angola (on the north) and Namibia. On the Namibian side, cattle grazing is the norm, while Angolans in the area are generally crop...
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Live Weather Data and MapBox.js
With Leaflet integration brought by the v1 release of MapBox.js, it’s easy to add live data feeds as custom-styled layers on top of your custom MapBox maps. In this post, I go over using MapBox.js to...
View ArticleTileMill for Education
Today I am visiting Humboldt State University, along with Nathaniel Kelso, as a speaker in their first annual Geospatial Speaker Series and to lead two workshops on TileMill. HSU, like other innovative...
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MapBox Streets in Español + Français
MapBox Streets is now also available in Spanish and French, in addition to English and local languages. Just click on the “customize” tab to pick your language!
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San Francisco State of the Map T-Shirt
I just finished the new t-shirt design for this year’s US OpenStreetMap conference – State of the Map– taking place in in San Francisco, CA, June 7-10. btw, today is the last day for early bird...
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Tibetan Plateau: Jewel Toned Lakes #CloudlessAtlas
The Tibetan Plateau. The plateau itself is covered in irregular hills, and its western half has no river drainage, so rainfall forms large lakes. They are called jewel-toned lakes for the colors of the...
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Photos from Open Government Happy Hour
On Friday, we hosted an Open Government happy hour in the MapBox Garage to kick off Transparency Camp 2013, an unconference organized by The Sunlight Foundation. Over 200 of our friends from across the...
View ArticleVector Tiles Preview: Designing the World with TileMill2
A peek over AJ’s shoulder while he uses an early internal preview of TileMill 2, 100% powered by our new vector tile stack developed by Dane, Artem, and Young.We’re combining TileMill’s deep design...
View ArticleNew Map Editor Launches on OpenStreetMap.org
Today iD, a modern in-browser map editor, launches on OpenStreetMap.org. This editor is a critical update to OpenStreetMap’s tool set and it is designed to radically improve the first-time editing...
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24 Hours of new OpenStreetMap Users
After yesterday’s launch of iD, a new editor for OpenStreetMap.org, the number of users making their first edit to OpenStreetMap more than quadrupled.
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Launching MapBox Earth
We just launched MapBox Earth, a free and open source iOS app that combines the power of a 3D globe with MapBox’s beautiful maps. It’s also a great starting point to build your own 3D mapping app -...
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