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Spotting Deforestation from Space – in Madagascar
This is the lower Mangoky river, southwest Madagascar, as seen with the EVI2 vegetation index as derived from data collected by NASA’s MODIS sensors in 2011 and 2012. To the south of the river’s mouth,...
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Vector Tiles for MapBox Streets
MapBox has developed an open source vector format to power the future of our web maps. Vector tiles rethink web maps from the ground up, providing a single efficient format to power raster tiles,...
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Users editing OSM worldwide with iD
After iD’s launch on OpenStreetMap.org last week, many new and existing users tried it out and started editing the worldwide map.
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Huge MapBox Satellite Update: Cloudless Atlas + US & EU Aerial +...
As Wired and FastCo just reported, we’ve pushed a huge update to MapBox Satellite today. Not only did we just launch our new Cloudless Atlas imagery for the entire world (down through zoom level 8), we...
View ArticleAWS User Group Road Trip
MapBox makes use of Amazon’s high-performance cloud infrastructure in order to scale quickly with demand and avoid single points of failure. So when Amazon’s Jeff Barr announced that he was driving...
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Q&A: City Guides by National Geographic
Today’s release of the gorgeous City Guides by National Geographic mobile app showcases the perfect marriage of expansive content, a high level of attention to detail and polish, and the flexibility of...
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Inkscape and MapBox for Interactive, Illustrated maps
We recently relaunched the MapBox product tour, and part of that redesign includes a custom map showing off our server infrastructure:Even though this map began its life as a vector illustration in...
View ArticleNew York City Happy Hour at Swift Bar
With our releases of Vector tiles, a cloudless world, and a brand new way to edit OpenStreetMap, we’ve been busy this last month.If you’re in New York City on Thursday, May 30th, join us for drinks to...
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Headed to San Francisco for State of the Map US
In a little over two weeks many folks on the MapBox team will head to San Francisco for the annual US-based OpenStreetMap conference. We’re gearing up for an interesting and productive trip and are...
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Look for Us @Foss4GNA Today and Tomorrow
Today and tomorrow, Justin, Tom, AJ, Eric and myself are at Foss4GNA in Minneapolis.We’re looking forward to two great days of catching up with the open source spatial community and talking about our...
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Capturing the Impact of the Oklahoma Tornado
We’ve partnered with USA Today to visualize the impact of Monday’s tornado in Oklahoma. The Civil Air Patrol conducted flyovers, capturing aerial images immediately after the storm. The images captured...
View ArticleBefore & After of the Moore, OK Tornado
Thanks to open aerial imagery provided by the U.S. Government and our MapBox.js javascript library, we can now see -- in stunning high resolution -- the impact of Monday's tornado on the city of Moore,...
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Cloudless Atlas with Landsat
This is a peek at the next release of our Cloudless Atlas release that the satellite team is prepping. Our goal is simple: to create cloud-free imagery mosaics from satellite imagery at ever higher...
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Washington Post Goes MapBox to Heat Map DC's Gun Seizures
The Washington Post used MapBox maps to build a fantastic interactive visualization of gun seizures in the District of Columbia and suburban Prince George’s County since 2000. Using a heat map on top...
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MeatText Arrives on Android
MeatText is an app that allows you to quickly share your location with friends, even if they don’t have the app! You can even customize the map style and animated icon to share your location with...
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Previewing User Interface Improvements in iD Version 1.1
Now that iD, the open source map editor, is live on OpenStreetMap.org we are investing in the details to make editing the map even easier and more intuitive. We are days away from the new release of iD...
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See the Freshness of OpenStreetMap Data
The colors in this map of the United States indicate how recently each road has been edited in OpenStreetMap: the oldest data in yellow, the newest in magenta, along a spectrum from Charlie’s sinebow...
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We're Supporting OpenStreetMap's Funding Drive for New Servers
We are supporting the OpenStreetMap Foundation’s $60,000 (£40,000) funding drive for new server infrastructure with a contribution of $20,000. If you hold a stake in OpenStreetMap large or small, we...
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Processing Landsat 8: First Look at the Northeast Mediterranean
Lake Burdur and Acıgöl, Turkey · Landsat 8 The new Landsat 8 imagery from USGS is amazing. We’re using the Aegean Sea and the western part of Turkey as a test area to look at adding it to MapBox...
View ArticleWWDC 2013 Whiskey Geo Hour
If you’re at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco next week, you’re invited to the WWDC Whiskey Geo Hour (WWGH) on Tuesday, June 11.(See a bigger map)Join MapBox for whiskey...
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