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Open Source Mapping in Ramallah 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Today I've arrived in the city of Ramallah to connect with technologists, civic activists, and students at TechCamp Ramallah. The TechCamp kicks off tomorrow and will bring together organizations from...
What's New in TIGER 2013 24 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
On Thursday, the US Census Bureau released the 2013 version of TIGER, its base map of the United States. Here is a first rendering of the new TIGER 2013 dataset. Changes in the 2013 edition are in yel...
User-Friendly Guided Feature Extraction: Extending the iD Editor 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
We want to make it easy to extract features from precise, current satellite imagery and add them to your map in iD. Feature extraction has been a topic in GIS for decades, but has never been intuitive...
London Happy Hour at Strongroom 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
We'll soon be on our way to State of the Map in Birmingham UK. Join us at our stop in London for a happy hour at Strongroom in Shoreditch on Wednesday September 4th to talk maps, satellite imagery and...
FirstLook for MapBox Satellite Live 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
We are getting closer to launching MapBox Satellite Live! Over the past month we focused on our pipeline's integration with DigitalGlobe's FirstLook imagery service. FirstLook is a custom monitoring s...
Cloudless Landsat Preview | Vancouver 20 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
We’re working on the next release of Cloudless Atlas, processing thousands upon thousands of huge Landsat scenes. Many techniques carry over smoothly from our cloudless MODIS project, but the number o...
A Better OpenStreetMap.org, One Step at a Time 16 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
For the past month, we've had our heads down on a series of incremental improvements to OpenStreetMap.org. This included a new sign up workflow, an improved map UI, a new data export screen and a full...
Simple, Fast Map Data Editing 12 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
We are trying to make it easier to draw, change, and publish maps. Some of the most important geospatial data is the information we know, observe, and can draw on a napkin. This is the kind of data th...
We Are Growing 12 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
We just launched /jobs @MapBox. We're growing fast and looking for talented, hungry people to join the team. Check out the openings or just drop us a line at jobs@mapbox.com to tell us how you could f...
Expanding our Satellite Processing with Astrium’s SPOT 6 8 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
As we prepare our MapBox Satellite Live service, we're continuing to expand our satellite imagery processing to include the best and newest sensors available – this time with SPOT 6 from Astrium. SPOT...
