Route-planning as participatory art The classic American road trip is a perfect project for an interactive map. Mapbox volunteers worked with artists from Capitol Hill Arts Workshop to support a year-long, cross-country mobile artist residency with the goal of taking visual stock of the state of the nation and building empathy. By: Chris Brainerd, Rebecca Rice,… Continue reading Building a cross-country road trip for the 50 States Project
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Style Components in Studio
A new way to design completely customized maps By: Dana Sulit We’ve just launched Style Components in Studio to manage complex hierarchies like road network, land use, color palettes, and typography properties. Style Components provide sensible defaults and quick opportunities for customization by optimizing the most common property changes for styles and packaging them into simple… Continue reading Style Components in Studio
New ways to tag and sort content
Store and retrieve location-based media with the Content Tagging solution By: Alex Yule Today we’re releasing a Content Tagging architecture for location-based content tagging and retrieval. Start the server, upload your content, and search it from the included user interface with just a few commands. Digital content libraries — from photos to social media posts to documents — are enormous and… Continue reading New ways to tag and sort content
Gift ideas powered by location
A mappy holiday gift guide By: Madison Draper This time of year, everyone is looking for the same thing: The perfect gift for the loved ones on our lists. Where to find it? On a map. Location shapes much of how we live our lives and interact with our surroundings. There are obvious ways — finding a restaurant, hailing a… Continue reading Gift ideas powered by location
Copy styles across accounts with two clicks
Share your custom style with your team, or the whole world By: Julia Rickles Design is a collaborative process, bringing together different perspectives, abilities, and skillsets to ensure the design is focused and functional. Cartographers at Mapbox are constantly reviewing each others’ styles and sharing tricks to improve map design. To let designers collaborate more easily in… Continue reading Copy styles across accounts with two clicks
Atlas ❤️ Kubernetes
By: Yves Richard Atlas customers can now deploy Atlas on Kubernetes, allowing elastic scale without needing to preallocate compute resources. With Atlas running on Kubernetes, customers have access to first-class support for resiliency, availability, and scalability for their critical deployments. Kubernetes is a future-proof solution with buy-in and support from all the major public cloud providers… Continue reading Atlas ❤️ Kubernetes
Rich data visualizations for Ant Financial’s AntV L7 Platform
By: Chris Wu Ant Financial Services Group, the parent company of Alipay, is now building with Mapbox. Their visualization team, AntV, just launched L7, an open-sourced large-scale geographic visualization framework with Mapbox maps in version 2.0. L7 is the first open source WebGL geographic visualization engine in China. Together with Mapbox GL, L7 lets users create compelling… Continue reading Rich data visualizations for Ant Financial’s AntV L7 Platform
Store locator for Bay Area Black-owned businesses
Make your own to support local this holiday season Interactive Map: https://labs.mapbox.com/bites/00407/ By: Brandi Haskins and Madison Draper Local business shape and reflect the unique character of a place, create resilient community, and support that community. Online shopping may be bigger and faster than ever, but it not only distances us from the shop owners where we… Continue reading Store locator for Bay Area Black-owned businesses
eXXpedition to end ocean plastic pollution
Why I’m setting sail on an all-female, around-the-world voyage “Through the Gyre.” eXXpedition tracking map shows ship location, route, and modeled concentration of ocean plastic. By: Marena Brinkhurst On Mapbox’s Community Team, I help organizations use location tools to approach environmental challenges in a lot of different ways — but I’ve never done anything like this: This week,… Continue reading eXXpedition to end ocean plastic pollution
Stranger Maps
Stranger Maps Build with “The Upside Down” and “80’s 8-bit” styles, inspired by Stranger Things Season 3 MapboxBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJun 26 By: Madison Draper We’re getting excited to return to Hawkins for Season 3 of Stranger Things, coming out on July 4th. In the lead up to the release, we started playing around with some new map styles… Continue reading Stranger Maps