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Here comes Space Invad-AR
By Morgane SantosHold on to your butts. Space Invad-AR, our very own world scale AR game, is now available for download in the iOS app store; and it’s open source so you can use it as a starting point...
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Revamping gestures for Android maps
By: Lukasz PaczosWe just enhanced gesture detection for the Maps SDK for Android. We’ve expanded the core Android SDK to allow more nuanced map interactions like rotation, shoving, two-finger taps, and...
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Helping PATH scale out data for #VisualizeNoMalaria
Expanding to the Elimination 8 CountriesBy: Allan Walker, Anya A’Hearn, Marena BrinkhurstClick through image to view project. (Suitable for Desktop Chrome Only)Using open data and location analytics,...
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A mapathon for the environment with OSM Earth
By: Marena BrinkhurstI am the Lorax! I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” - Dr. SeussThis Earth Day, a group of volunteers from the OSM community participated...
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Tesla UX Lead and Uber Autonomous Experience Designer Brennan Boblett to Lead...
Tesla UX Lead and Uber Autonomous Experience Designer Brennan Boblett to Lead Mapbox Navigation DesignBy: Eric GundersenAutomotive design pioneer Brennan Boblett joins the team to lead auto and...
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Turn-by-turn navigation in your user’s language
By: Minh NguyễnLeft: The entire UI can be mirrored in Hebrew and other languages written right-to-left | Middle: Vertical road labels improve legibility in Chinese | Left: Voice instructions in Russian...
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How I Built It: Model Input Variable Explorer for #VisualizeNoMalaria
By Allan WalkerIn an earlier post, we shared updates on Mapbox’s ongoing support to the #VisualizeNoMalaria initiative in Zambia and our commitment to helping scale the initiative to the other...
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Speaking @ Locate: Åsa Forsell
Customer Experience Manager at RightwareBy: Joe GomezLocate | Pier 27, San Francisco, CA | May 30–31, 2018At Locate — two-days of all things maps, location, and sensors—we’re exploring how companies...
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DIY — Resumap!
By: Joe ClarkThis one’s for all you new grads out there, about to hit the big wide world with a shiny degree and dreams on dreams for your “wild and precious life” (h/t Mary Oliver). It’s a daunting...
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A new era of personalized maps @ Locate
Locate | Pier 27, San Francisco, CA | May 30–31, 2018Clockwise from top left: NY Trees by Eden Halperin, Russian mail networks by Nikolai Lebedev, our Cali Terrain style, gene mapping from Ancestry...
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Mapping the sun @ Locate
And other mind-bending remote sensing pursuitsBy: Joe Gomez“The reason I like talking about the sun is that it challenges our assumptions. It makes you question what is a surface? What is a map?...
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The Silence of the Lamps
Mapping street lamps for safer roads in BengaluruBy: Jinal FofliaBengaluru, India is a challenging city to navigate. It’s common to dodge potholes, pedestrian traffic, make-shift dividers, and...
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New Maps SDK brings heatmaps and terrain shading to mobile
Customize your mobile maps with Android v6.0 and iOS v4.0By: Lily KaiserOur Maps SDKs updates give you a new ways to customize your maps. Recently, the teams at Woov, The Weather Chanel, Lonely Planet,...
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BYOI: Host and process your imagery on our platform
Custom process your high-resolution satellite, drone, and aerial imageryFrom our satellite layer: high-resolution imagery of Barcelona’s Eixample district. Imagery: Digital Globe.By Camilla...
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Speaking @ Locate: Drew Robb
Infrastructure/Data Engineer at StravaBy: Joe GomezLocate | Pier 27, San Francisco, CA | May 30–31, 2018Locate — two days of all things maps, location data, and sensors — is just around the corner, and...
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Developer Maps Platform
By: Eric GundersenSince the beginning of time, humans have been explorers. It has been our shared quest to discover and measure and build the world around us. Maps are humanity’s living document.The...
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TomTom Transportation and Logistics Sales Leader, Courtney McGuire, joins Mapbox
By: Eric GundersenAfter 17 years with TomTom (TeleAtlas), Courtney McGuire, who was accountable for all new business in assigned territory in the Enterprise and Fleet space, joins Mapbox. Courtney will...
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More powerful styling in Studio
By: Saman Bemel-BenrudLast year we introduced expressions in GL JS to allow more powerful and sophisticated operations when using your data to style map features — that is, data-driven styling. Today...
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Kiwi.com rethinks travel search
Build complex itineraries with a unique map interfaceBy: Chloe KrawczykThere’s a 7’x5’ paper map hanging on my wall where I draw circles around all the places in the world I want to visit. Kiwi.com is...
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Spawn AR objects anywhere in the world
By: Jim MartinWe’ve been working on expanding our suite of developer tools for Mapbox AR, and we’re really excited to put something new in the hands of our dev community — next week we’re releasing the...
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